Save Your Light For Darker Days

If you're only gonna treat yourself to one chilled instrumental album this year, make sure it's this one DMC Update's Essential Album * A heavenly overture... sweeping bows and tumultuous build ups... If the bass doesn't get you then the throb of the cello will Music OMH *Producer and instrumentalist Andy Dobson has been writing and performing music as Digitonal since the late 90s. It wasn't until a chance meeting with Egyptian session violinist Samy Bishai in a basement studio in Tooting, however, that the outfit's collision of cinematic atmosphere, AI-era-Warp electronica and classically-influenced beauty fully took shape. Acclaimed releases for Toytronic, Seed and Cactus Island records followed, along with the building of an excellent reputation for dynamic live shows with their expanded line up, including legendary ambient vocalist Kirsty Hawkshaw and harpist Kat Arney (Shadow Orchestra, Chilled by Nature). It is beautiful... the GuardianUK Festival appearances at the Big Chill, Bestival, Dedbeat, Bloc Party and Cheltenham, alongside a major UK tour with the Bays in '07, cemented their reputation as a dynamic live electronica act, and have led to performances throughout the UK, Europe and the US. in April 2008, they played at the NASA Ames Research Base in California and also became the first band to remix UK Techno pioneers B12. Now in their new home at Just Music, and fresh from collaborating with UK post rockers 65daysofstatic on their 3rd album, Digitonal have teamed up with ex Seed label boss Josh Docherty (Posthuman, AGT Rave Cru) and will release Save Your Light for Darker Days, in August. Save You Light for Darker Days will be released on September 1st 2008 on Just Music.