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01. STEVE MOORE - Endless Caverns
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02. STEVE MOORE - Planetwalk
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03. STEVE MOORE - Deep Time
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04. STEVE MOORE - Nemesis
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05. STEVE MOORE - Pangaea Ultima
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06. STEVE MOORE - Logotone
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07. STEVE MOORE - Aphelion
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08. STEVE MOORE - Endless Mountains
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09. STEVE MOORE - Worldbuilding
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ARTIST
MOORE, STEVE
TITLE
Pangaea Ultima
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
SPECTRUM SPOOLS
CATALOG #
SP 032CD
SP 032CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
1/7/2014
Pangaea Ultima
,
Steve Moore
's debut record on Spectrum Spools, is an epic musical achievement, not simply for its sonic sophistication and compositional mastery, but also because Moore has crafted here an album that has come as close to any in transcending the boxed human logic of time and place. The album title refers to the name which geologists have given to the future super-continent that is suggested may form on earth in the next quarter-of-a-billion years. Over the course of the nine pieces on
Pangaea Ultima
, Moore meditates upon the realization of this new land mass in an uncharted part of the world's moment. How will this continent come to be formed? What forces and what processes create it? What is this continent's terrain of "Endless Mountains" and "Endless Caverns," and on what kind of planet will it be? These are all speculative questions that alight the listener as they are subsumed into Steve Moore's synthscapes which unfurl with equal amounts of delicacy and meticulous detail. In some respects, the attitude and ambition of
Pangaea Ultima
places this work in a similar canon as the mythic territory of
Tangerine Dream
's
Phaedra
or the cosmic imaginations of
Michael Stearns
'
Planetary Unfolding
, and yet it evades both comparisons as easily. There is something mysteriously self-contained, urgent that pervades these assemblages of tracks. "Logotone" exhibits Moore's ability to stretch the sensibilities of melodic and chordal phrasing to limits that
Schulze
or
Alan Hawkshaw
wouldn't have gone. The compositions on
Pangaea Ultima
, like "Planetwalk" and "Nemesis" are more tightly coiled even in their constant straining to explode outwards to the stars beyond. And when Moore plays with rhythms, they resemble the idiosyncratic mould of his releases for Long Island Electrical Systems, Future Times and Kompakt, and yet seem to push even further towards an eerie sparseness yet to be fully tapped. If there are 4/4 kicks on
Pangaea Ultima
, like on "Deep Time" and the title-track, it's for a world skewed on a bent axis. Musically, this is a record of both microscopic and macroscopic reward, an absorbing listen that betrays the album's 60 minutes of length. Which again returns us to the question of time and how so expertly Moore has managed to avoid it. Or more so, how he has managed to find a fold in time -- an atemporal space -- here this album anomalously nestles by itself. Moore reaches out to the moment of genesis of
Pangaea Ultima
and slips into its imaginary logic of time and place. He does not intrude or indulge there. Nor are there any "retro" homages or "sci-fi" tropes/ambitions on
Pangaea
-- we cannot even be sure whether humans have a history they can call a future on this continent. Yet just as easily, as geologists concede, this future super-continent may never end up eventuating, which would mean this imminently possible reality will melt into fantasy. But this too, is not a bad place for Steve Moore's masterpiece to end up, either. Mastered and cut by
Rashad Becker
, August 2013. Artwork and design by
Robert Beatty
.
myth is the internalising of
natural phenomena through
explicable narratives
fantasy is the stepping outside
of history in order to make
narratives explicable
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