Mahoney/Peck CD Review by The Hypnagogue

[Mohoyoho]

A tip of the hat to John Shanahan, The Hypnagogue. He gave us a great review of our CD, "Gallery of Subtle Smiles."
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Here's what he wrote:
The Wife of Hypnagogue obviously ends up listening to a lot of ambient and electronic music. She’s made to sleep with it playing, it’s there on car trips, and it drifts down the hallway at night while iTunes just quietly shuffles the collection. Every now and then the Wife of Hypnagogue will stop to comment on a piece, and the highest compliment she gives is, “This is nice”—which she had to say about Mark Mahoney and M. Peck’s Gallery of Subtle Smiles. I have to agree. Blending vastly deep spacemusic overtones with sharp, melodic sequencer work, Mahoney and Peck craft a voyage that is by turns exhilarating and contemplative. And each track—each leg of the journey—is a stunningly realized electronic landscape constructed from the chemistry between the duo. I find myself at a genuine loss to try to describe the tracks in and of themselves, the elements are so rich and the music so immersive. The back-and-forth between Peck's washes and Mahoney's sequence work in the far-ranging opener, "Flight of the Nexxus Swan"; the mechanically rhythmic sensbilities of "Cosmic Visitation"; the dark intensity of "Follow the Swarm"; and the hypnotic pulse and flow of "Tin Cans and Tiny Cables." On this one, words are inadequate. It's simply amazing and just has to be experienced. Over and over. And over. It is most definitely a Hypnagogue Highly Recommended CD.

Just want to mention electro-music's own Kip Rosser did the artwork for our CD.

[kkissinger]

Congratulations on your new CD and for the great review!

Look forward to hearing it.

[Mohoyoho]

Thanks Kevin. We're both pretty proud of "Gallery. . ." We just about have our third CD in the can, and I think it will be even better. We'll probably release that Jan. or later.