Lanterna's music wanders the front line of a style known as
Ambient Americana. As Lanterna, Henry Frayne connects his
achievements in post-punk and shoegazer "dream pop" with
moods drawn from spaghetti westerns and ambient
isolationists. His albums of primarily guitar-based instrumentals
move between the soothing, the unsettling and the fiery.
HIGHWAYS (69"00') beckons to the presence of the night and is
an evocative portrayal of the dark hours' solemn and
unfrequented regions. Frayne's guitar work is more expressive
than some songs with lyrics. Thought of as "instrumentals that
speak", Lanterna provides an entire landscape of sound, created
with just a guitar. Often Frayne is exploring the possibilities of
playing his instrument through the endless delay of digital
processors. His rich and detailed performances bounce around
your interior, co-mingling with your thoughts. Elsewhere, the
album rocks out, energized with the confidence of a solid rhythm
section, but still chilled. We all live in the same world, each one
of us filling in our lives with experience. In Lanterna's highly
personal music we encounter a sense of motion. Together we
are travelling to a place somewhere between the nobility of
quests into no-man's land, the tranquility of cerebral ambient
spaces - and well beyond pop's prevailing commercial
sensibilities.

Tune in to STAR'S END this weekend for new music from
HIGHWAYS by Lanterna

For more on HIGHWAYS, access:
http://www.badmanrecordingco.com

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