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01. ROBERT HAIGH - Fugue State
02. ROBERT HAIGH - Remains of a River
03. ROBERT HAIGH - Twice Solitaire
04. ROBERT HAIGH - Cage of Shadows
05. ROBERT HAIGH - Darkling Streams
06. ROBERT HAIGH - Ipcress Girl
07. ROBERT HAIGH - Lunaire
08. ROBERT HAIGH - Mysterious Lights
09. ROBERT HAIGH - Of Eros and Dust
10. ROBERT HAIGH - Air Cerulian
11. ROBERT HAIGH - A Plague of Notes
12. ROBERT HAIGH - Crepuscule
13. ROBERT HAIGH - Crepuscule 2
14. ROBERT HAIGH - Circle of Deranged Fifths
15. ROBERT HAIGH - End Title
16. ROBERT HAIGH - Rain for Avalon
ARTIST
TITLE
Darkling Streams
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PRIMA 003CD PRIMA 003CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/17/2013

2020 repress. Robert Haigh is a veteran of UK underground music from the early '80s onwards. In the '80s he worked on seminal Nurse With Wound albums and released a series of darkly ambient albums and EPs under the name Sema. The '90s saw Haigh experimenting with atmospheric textures and sequenced rhythms under the name Omni Trio. From the mid-naughties onwards, Haigh has returned to his love of minimal piano counterpoint with releases on Seal Pool, Crouton, Siren, and now Primary Numbers. Darkling Streams is the anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed trio of piano albums released on Siren Records between 2009 and 2011. Taking up where the Siren trilogy left off, Darkling Streams is a collection of piano miniatures with occasional wisps of shimmering electronic texture. As with the Siren albums, the pieces are intimate, atmospheric, hauntingly melodic, and introspective. Shades of Satie, Harold Budd, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, and Ryuichi Sakamoto can be detected in these works but never to the extent of overshadowing Haigh's distinctive expression and harmonic preoccupations. This current set stands apart, however, with the inclusion of a handful of extended pieces. Tracks such as "Fugue State," "Of Eros and Dust," and "Rain for Avalon" have an epic and darkly cinematic quality not heard on previous albums.