ElectroAmbient Space Review – Soundtrack For Motion
Dave Preston “Sountrack for Motion” —- Review By Phil Derby
(http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/DavePreston1, 2010)
10 songs, 53.01 mins
Dave Preston’s Be struck a chord with me for its originality, a unique melding of ambient and new age, and he continues to cross musical boundaries with ease on Soundtrack for Motion. The mood is often on the melancholy side, with a shoegaze vibe on selections like “Flashing Emergency Lights” and “The Blood in Your Veins”, the latter including vocals toward the end that weave seamlessly into the music. Vocals are more predominant on “A Giant Leap of Faith”, a mournful sort of wail that continues from its atmospheric beginning through to a livelier rhythmic yet still moody latter half. Some tracks have a bit more edge to them, but all retain a dreamy quality, particularly on the ethereal floaters “I Am Sorry” and “Spinning Away From The Earth.” “Your Reflection In The Water” is more like relaxed instrumental rock, with a cool leisurely bass line. Preston’s guitar playing is restrained yet assured throughout, and really shines on “Sweet Sound of Escape,” vaguely reminiscent of a laid back Manuel Göttsching. Soundtrack for Motion is another solid offering by Preston.
Soundtrack For Motion on the Zone Reporter
Soundtrack For Motion charts #46 on the Zone Reporter New Age Chart
Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible…Let’s keep climbing the charts!
Alternative Music Press
ALTERNATIVE MUSIC PRESS – Review by Ben Kettlewell (July 2010)
Dave Preston
Soundtrack For Motion
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Label: Iedima Records
Dave Preston’s ambient debut album, “BE” carried charting success and continues to grow. Now, the highly anticipated sophmore release from Dave Preston, “Soundtrack For Motion” features ambient music giant MINGO with various other cast and characters.
The second ambient release from Denver-based guitarist Dave Preston, “Soundtrack For Motion” is a meditation of motion and movement in all it’s forms, both physical or metaphysical. Preston mines the terrain where
ambient, experimental and minimalism converge.
Dave produces tones that rarely betray their origin on the electric guitar as they are processed, delayed, distorted and looped to create complex harmonies and timbres.
The marvels of modern technology sustain the sound of a picked string, or transform a strummed chord into a softshimmering wave that rises and falls out of nowhere. As he did in his ambient debut “Be“, Preston intricately weaves uncommon intensity and passion into the sonic landscape and manages to accomplish something rare: ambient music that is capable of a wide range of feelings.
From the transcendent “Blind Lovers Hand In Hand“, the near sacred rage of “The Blood In Your Veins“, and the wailing of “A Giant Leap Of Faith” to the “Blade Runner” atmospherics of “Spinning Away From The Earth” (a collaboration with Mingo), “Soundtrack To Motion” shows signifigant growth and maturing of Preston as an ambient artist. I apprecitate the precision of Dave’s playing. The quality and emotiveness of the compositions will definitely give the listener a thirst formore of his work. Dave has produced amasterpiece of guitar atmospherics containing some of the most beautiful, lush, slow-moving textures you will ever encounter, here on Soundtrack For Motion.
Track Listing:
1. Skies (feat. Sam Gathman)
2. Blind Lovers Hand In Hand (feat. Glowing House)
3. The Blood In Your Veins
4. Flashing Emergency Lights
5. A Giant Leap of Faith (feat. Amidei)
6. I Am Sorry
7. Spinning Away From the Earth (feat. Mingo)
8. Your Reflection In the Water
9. Sweet Sound of Escape
10. Feeling God Has Left You (feat. Sam Gathman)
Total Length: 53:01
