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The Valley Below by DP Kaufman DP Kaufman : The Valley Below.
 Ambient, melodic electronica meets neo-classical.

North Carolina Film Composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Doug Kaufman has returned with The Valley Below, an album that unfolds in pure magical melancholia. It's delicate piano and guitar compositions, lavishly textured by gorgeous string arrangements and haunting airy synths, spawn wistful and hope-filled melodies that soar and subside in cinematic grandeur.

"The Valley Below" echoes the same masterful strokes as Kaufman's 2014 release "Fear And Curiosity" with its expansive ambient electronica laid out like a sumptuous blanket but it's the addition of guitar to the forefront and improved songwriting that makes this a far more compelling listen. The creative process explains Kaufman was completely different.

"Whereas "Fear And Curiosity" was for me a musical representation of processing some psychological questions of our motivations, and hope and tragedy, "The Valley Below" was more of a purely musical exploration; following the emotional trajectory of each sound as I tried some different directions. "Memorial" was recorded on an old upright piano, but then I experimented with a lot of sampled percussion and synth patches. The second track, "To Face the Unknown", was an attempt at more of a pure guitar-driven post-rock sound. Later in the album, I incorporated some string arrangements from a group in Saint Petersburg I worked with, as well as some more purely ambient concepts. So kind of working backwards - starting with musical concepts and seeing where that led as opposed to starting with a concept and writing for it".

The Valley Below is an intimate listen with a nostalgic desire, each piece touching an emotional nerve and resulting in a stirring score yearning for a film, with tracks like "Memorial", "Eyes Aglow", "Cerro Torre" and "Through Black" striking deeply and deserving to be graced with the larger than life treatment of the silver screen.
Songs:

1. Memorial
2. To Face the Unknown
3. The Valley Bellow
4. With Abandon
5. This Dawn Will Rise to Worlds Untold
6. Eyes Aglow
7. Cerro Torre
8. Aether
9. Through Black
10. Hunters in the Snow
11. There was Night

Listen to: the entire album.

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Release date: 12/14/2017
DP Kaufman lives in North Carolina USA

Tagged as: Electronica, Experimental, Instrumental Electronica, Contemporary Piano, Daydreaming, IDM

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