GLOSS by Harlan Mark Vale

The album GLOSS is the premier release of 2021s compositions. These are 24bit Masters.

Glosses were originally notes made in the margin or between the lines of a text in a classical language; the meaning of a word or passage is explained by the gloss. As such, glosses vary in thoroughness and complexity, from simple marginal notations of words one reader found difficult or obscure, to interlinear translations of a text with cross references to similar passages.

So in turn the collection of compositions on this album have the quality of a glossator writing in the margins for future readers, using ancient definitions to culturally obsolete languages in order to deepen our perspective and experience by all that words can convey.

Harlan attended The Evergreen State College in Washington State, where he studied 20th Century Composition, Electronic Music and Audio Engineering.
Harlan plays piano, synthesizer and percussion.
Harlan has been an independent composer / performer since 1974. He releases his own music through his own recording label, Pillars of Light Music.

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