"Beyond The Dark Zones" does what its title promises; it takes us beyond the heavy sounds of dark ambience.

Cristiano Bocci's poetics are rooted in the electronic soil of texture-based music; the plant that grows from it is a multi-faceted, many-branched thing. Many of the programs he uses to generate and manipulate sound are his own custom designs, with which composes floating drones and dirges, thickly woven textures of overlapped and interleaved timbres, stretched and compressed tones, basic motifs that are looped, granulated, and otherwise transfigured. Many of the compositions incorporate acoustic instruments, modal tonalities, and cyclical rhythms as well as instrumental ensembles from bass, brass, reeds, piano, and the human voice.

The aesthetic core of the album is defined by the deep pitches and minor keys of dark ambience, with slowed-down jazz fusion, hints of field recordings, down-tempo electronica, spoken word, and choral music.

Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digipak.