Dino Pacifici has given his album, THE FLOAT ZONE (57'55"),
the perfect name. What with it's drifting nature and recumbent
posture, it is unlikely that anyone experiencing this album will
ever be able to find the floor. The seven tracks work on the
modality of the mind. Each piece creates an area outside of time,
exhibiting a sprawling stillness attributable to Pacifici's
introspective design. The slow movement and gradual kinetic
flux of his soundscapes draw us inward and the listener's
transient thoughts and mental states become lost within this
work's expansive dreaminess. The sounds on THE FLOAT
ZONE are made by synthesizers, samplers, guitars and
numerous other gadgets. Each piece seems to rush into the
listening space. With dense drones, harmonic pads, reverberant
voices and numerous unsettling accents and modulations, we
quickly become lost in this album's dark dimensions. Towards
the album's conclusion, Pacifici injects his work with cycling
rhythms, light melodies and an overall brightness, aiding in the
much-desired soft landing... Is this an album of Space or
Ambient Music? With its ability to instill within the listener both a
sense of the vastness of space and the timelessness of infinity,
THE FLOAT ZONE contains properties of both.

Tune in to STAR'S END this weekend for music from THE FLOAT
ZONE by Dino Pacifici

For more on Dino Pacifici, access: http://www.dinopacifici.com

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2004 - STAR'S END Year in Review

This weekend's broadcast of STAR'S END will present Part
Three of the annual Year in Review broadcast. Tune in for tracks
from the significant releases of 2004 and a look back at the year
in Ambient and Spacemusic.

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STAR'S END broadcasts every Saturday night/Sunday morning
from 1am-6am (EDST) on:

88.5fm WXPN Philadelphia, PA
88.1fm WXPH Harrisburg, PA
90.5fm Worton/Baltimore, MD
104.9fm Allentown, PA

and live on the web...

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Chuck van Zyl
Host of STAR'S END Ambient Radio
http://www.starsend.org