Touchstone, by Solarstone

Touchstone

by Solarstone

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kari65 The instrumental "touchstone" sounds great, feels like summer evening, get you in melancholic mood but in good way, hard to explain.

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1.	Is There Anyone Out There 05:39	info	buy track
2.	Ultraviolet 08:28	info	buy track
3.	Night Signals 07:06	info	buy track
4.	Touchstone 08:53		buy track
5.	Electric Love 06:04	info	buy track
6.	Intravenous 04:59	info	buy track
7.	Twisted Wing 07:45	info	buy track
8.	Slowmotion 05:13	info	buy track
9.	The Best Way To Make Your Dreams Come True Is To Wake Up 05:56		buy track
10.	Zeitgeist 06:13	info	buy track
11.	The Last Defeat PT. II 09:02	info	buy track
12.	There's A Universe 04:23	info	buy track

about

Solarstone's 3rd album including Digital Booklet.

In 2008 he produced Rain Stars Eternal, his rebirth 2.0 artist album and in 2009 he imagined and created Electronic Architecture – his IDMA-nominated concept compilation vision. Now, for a new decade, Solarstone returns with… Touchstone.

In ways big and small, conscious or otherwise, inspiration happens to everyone, everyday of their lives. Musicians are perhaps intrinsically even more open to it. Lines thick, thin, straight and curved are drawn to productions that span back over many decades… In his own production work, identifying these inspirations, down to their smallest fraction is something that Solarstone (composer, producer, singer & DJ Richard Mowatt) has long been captivated by.

Touchstone, his new artist album, brings these inspirations out of the cortex and into the light, ‘musically mapping’, for the first time, an artist that has at every turn sought to redefine the word trance. As with every album ever produced, influences are there to be picked up on by the listener. On Touchstone though they are first illuminated, clarified and examined by the artist himself. Richard goes on to explain: “To me musical inspiration comes in many forms. It can be artists that I’ve fallen in love with wholesale and still venerate to this day, or simply fragments of music that made a lasting impression at arbitrary points in my life. ‘Touchstone’ is a culmination of all those inspirations.”

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released August 23, 2010

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Solarstone Wales, UK

One of the Trance scene's founding Fathers & the man behind the Pure Trance movement.

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May 3

Jala Dance Club

Shenzhen, China
Jun 27

Beachclub Bernie's

Zandvoort, Netherlands
Jul 11

Eden Ibiza

Sant Antoni de Portmany, Spain
Sep 5

Captured Festival Malta

Valletta, Malta

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