M87 – Noctilucent Threnody (1999)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Mu Cephei I 06:50
2. M8 (Lagoon Nebula) 16:16
3. NGC 7538 09:05
4. Arcturus 09:15
5. OQ172 05:45
6. P Cygni 12:27
7. NGC 6726/27 19:41

M87 was created in 1995 by Huw O. Davies, inspirationally catalysed by a television documentary about Black Holes

and aiming to create music which expressed the strangeness and extremity of these elusive celestial objects.
Davies aided by his technical level as a guitar player

but also limited by his inexistent technical knowledge on any other instrument,

spent over a year developing and perfecting notation, playing, and recording techniques which would enable him

to produce an alien orchestral sound with nothing but his 13 guitars and a bit of recording equipment.
As the musical concept expanded, he recorded several hours of material (including a titanic 78-minute piece),

samples of which were sent to a wide variety of record labels.

Reactions were quite uniform in their incomprehension and disbelief,

which resulted in a mixture of triumph and frustration, since no one seemed to know quite what to make of the music

and therefore no one seemed to know quite whether to offer him a deal.

In the summer of 1997, however, Davies contacted Supernal Music following an advertisement in a mail order catalogue,

where the label expressed interest in bands inspired by Astronomical, Astrophysical, and Cosmological subjects.
Recorded at Singularity Studios, in winter of 1997 "Noctilucent Threnody" was released in 1999 as a limited edition CD

and was the first of a planned ten albums, most of the material for which had already been recorded.
Davies is currently working on a remastered and remixed version of the "Noctilucent Threnody",
complete with several bonus tracks, that were originally recorded at the time, for a possible inclusion on the album.
In addition the second M87 album is in the making under the title "Abyssal Symphonies".
Davies is also involved in his two other projects, Devoid and Cziltang Brone.

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