Daniel Bachman - Moving Through Light (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

It may not sound like it, but my new record, Moving Through Light, is a solo fingerstyle guitar record. In fact, all the sounds on this record came from one guitar, with their many voices stretched, bent, processed, and superimposed over top of one another, sometimes hundreds and hundreds of times. The only other sounds you’ll hear throughout this 1 hour 14 minute album is the occasional drum machine sample, all recorded off of an app I have on my phone.

o be honest, this is a record that I’ve been wanting to make for some time now. When I started getting into this sound collage style a couple years ago, I immediately thought, “wow, it’d be pretty cool to do a whole record of guitar music but edited like this.” So, in the spring of 2024 I had a little time in between some time sensitive projects and I slowly began piecing it all together, little by little, eventually growing it into this double record length album of collage guitar music, and I couldn’t be happier with how it all turned out.

There are a couple different styles on this one, from really dense tangles of screaming tones and drones, rapidly looping and falling in on themselves, to very minimal solo guitar pieces that have received the collage treatment and time intensive editing process, all created to be woven together into one seamless listen. If I’m being honest, this is the music I’m most excited about making right now, and kind of feels like a next step forward for me, merging the fingerstyle techniques I’ve learned over the last 20 some years as a player, trying to pull out a new possibility.

Tracklist:
01. Breathe in/breathe out
02. Feel the ground beneath your feet (some sticks and leaves, but mostly earth…)
03. Now
04. There is a house in the distance (enter these rooms)
05. Your steps (tumbling throughout every chamber)
06. Fall into/out to
07. A place you never knew to remember
08. The sun (bending through the glass)
09. Cast layered likeness of life (some trees and heat, but mostly shadows…)
10. While you gaze
11. Into the outside
12. Tight tangles of being intersecting in every direction
13. Stretching spirit
14. Who shines (a light inside this building)
15. God is change


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