Artist: Steve Jolliffe
Title: A Beautiful Mystery
File: Ambient/Electronic
Known as a recording and performing artist as well composer of multiple film scores and forty solo albums, Steve Jolliffe is a British multi-instrumentalist.
He left the band Joint before it morphed into Supertramp to study composition and piano at the prestigious Berlin Konservatorium, staying on in Germany to play for a year with Tangerine Dream.
He next joined cult progressive blues band Steamhammer, touring and playing on its ‘Mk II’ album as well as co-writing the single “Autumn Song” which topped the French charts.
At Edgar’s request, Steve went back to Tangerine Dream to record on the band’s 11th album, ‘Cyclone’, bringing for the first time the vocals and flute that took the band closer to a progressive rock styling.
Played exclusively by Steve on synthesizer and flute, 2018’s ‘A Beautiful Mystery’ is conceptually aligned to the main body of his recorded output.
“I find my music being an emotional reaction on my part to the sound of the instrument rather than a crafting of melody and harmony,” he says, and the album plays to this modus operandi as a stream of musical consciousness.
“The title came last,” he adds.
“I was watching a film one night. Geraldine Chaplin was sitting with a little boy on a hillside, both gazing at the night sky.
“She turned to him and said ‘it’s a beautiful mystery’.
“I knew immediately that was it.”
Tracks:
- Eclipse
- Proclamation
- Induction
- Taken
- Cerramiento
- Letting Go
- Clearing The Way
- Expanse