Highly layered and textural, BEFORE SUNRISE is impressively spacious with an abundance of subtle detail

Five years in the making, Jeff Greinke's newest release BEFORE SUNRISE explores the more acoustical side of the ambient / impressionist territory of the electronic music genre. This new work, the third Greinke title on the Spotted Peccary Music label, is a logical progression from his previous releases, painting abstract landscapes and emotive expressions with ample use of acoustic instruments such as piano, cello, viola, clarinets and vibraphone, along with electronic elements of sampled textures and synthesizers. The expansive palette of these rich timbres bring a fresh perspective to this highly nuanced contemporary electro-acoustic sound.

Spanning genres of modern classical, electronic, and ambient, BEFORE SUNRISE is always evolving, flowing pastorally throughout a predominately non-linear structure. These improvisations and compositions sway to-and-fro, effortlessly creating an authentic, organic quality to the musical experience. Evocative recording techniques, like capturing the incidentals of string and bowed instruments, conjure a lonely, desolate, melancholy terrain.

Greinke adds, 'My music and creative process is inspired by my visual, aural, and sensual (particularly meteorological) experiences of the world around me.' Due to this inspiration, the eight tracks that comprise this new album are mostly void of any clear rhythmic component and yet pace gracefully, almost floating majestically with Greinke's intention and direction. Highly layered and textural, BEFORE SUNRISE is impressively spacious with an abundance of subtle detail, while evoking a remarkably somber and visual sense of place.

Track Listing

• High Flyers of the Night Sky
• Slow Train on an Open Plain
• Night Watch
• The River
• Under Falling Stars
• Mountains and Clouds
• Rain, then Snow
• Before Sunrise

Additional Details

Label: Spotted Peccary Music

Genre: Ambient/Experimental

Language: English

Run Time: 57:22 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/06/18

UPC: 600028370125