Scott Dubois - Winter Light (CD)

Release Date: 10/30/15Guitarist Scott DuBois “makes waves” with his “exploratory yet melodic sensibilities and serious compositional ambitions,” (New York Times)On Winter Light, Scott Dubois tells the story of a single frigid day. It's as wondrous, chilling, atmospheric, and powerful as can be. Over the course of seven tracks, DuBois and his band mates manage to paint a picture of placidity and power. In doing so, they touch on nature's fickle ways and the evolutionary wonders that emerge and wane over the course of a winter day. DuBois and company conjure and create space, static air, majesty, fear, the rush of the wind, and the beauty of the light playing off of the ice and snow, simultaneously drawing on the colorful and colorless. This is a band that believes in patience and purpose. It's a group that's more concerned with capturing the transmogrification of nature than simply cutting loose. The album opens on 'First Light Tundra,' a piece that finds the dark of night and the light