Hoefler, Chad

Artist: Chad Hoefler
P: 2005  
The album kicks off quite stealthy with slow-motion freezing and sparse futuristic sonics "Incipience Electric". Slow pulses of "Radiant Blue" gradually unfold into gorgeously emerging charm washes that later again slowly fade away. Even if this piece is filled with coldness and simplicity, the overall effect is enormously effective and attractive with perfectly resisted minimal icy sounds and evolving warm drifts.

Artist: Chad Hoefler
P: 2004
As the title of Chad Hoefler's 2004 debut CD suggests, Twilight In The Offing represents the artists attempt to sonically capture the concept of inevitability; the inescapable fact that darkness follows dusk, that fall and winter follow summer, and that the expiration of life is the ultimate certainty. Tracks vary widely from one another from deep and dark orchestral soundscapes with tribal percussion to floating sonic surrealism to abstract, pensive soundworlds. Don't be fooled by the fact that this is Chad's "debut" CD. Twilight in the Offing is the work of a mature and experienced artist, with a sonic variety and depth that stand up next to the best of the ambient/space music genre.