Jeff Pearce: The Light Beyond Jeff Pearce: The Light Beyond (Hypnos - 2001) Jeff Pearce set out to perform a live "preview" of his new ambient guitar music for listeners at last year's Star's End gathering. Not surprisingly, it turns out that the resulting recording, The Light Beyond, was a keeper! Subtly fluctuating radiance marks the Migration of Souls; faint textural touches are added with what sounds like little half-plucks... The track just spills over into Across the Infinite Sea, continuing its ever-expanding journeys. In ethereal strands of high and low, streaming loveliness issues forth from A Farther Shore (43:46). Golden tones simply waft in big, slow movements... it's like a gleaming (but never glaring) sunset for your ears. Pop a cold one (or with this track length, maybe two), set back and enjoy the floatation. Giving one final taste, The Light Beyond (2:20) delivers more of the same lushness, though in a much more encapsulated version. Trying to use mere words to describe Jeff Pearce's gorgeously gaseous soundclouds is akin to painting your ceiling blue and gluing cottonballs up there in an attempt to emulate an expansive skyscape; in either case it can't live up to the original... The Light Beyond is no exception, a 9.1-ranked keeper. Hypnos is the place (but you already know this!) This review posted June 30, 2001 AmbiEntrance © 2001-1997 by David J Opdyke (except CD cover art, rights retained by original owners).