Lush, casually evolving, elusively shaped music for guitar, piano, bass, and electronics. This 25-minute CD EP/single features the composer’s idiosyncratic guitar playing and performances by...

Lush, casually evolving, elusively shaped music for guitar, piano, bass, and electronics. This 25-minute CD EP/single features the composer’s idiosyncratic guitar playing and performances by Thomas Newman (the noted film composer) and Peter Freeman. “One of the most engrossing records this year so far—and one of those instances when, in terms of duration, less is not more.” [Paris Transatlantic] “From its first inquisitive augmented chord, Rick Cox’s Fade is hard to pin down…. Edges and contours are all smoothed away, the music insinuating much more than it says…. But Cox's elusiveness soon becomes subtlety, and I came to admire his way of opening up spaces and filling them—patiently, softly—with music…. The word ‘ambient’ has served too long—or so Fade seems to say—as a catchall for quiet and dominantly electronic music of an impressionist bent…. Cox has more in common with, say, the classical Japanese shakuhachi repertory than he does with Eno…. The piece is a relaxing and most enjoyable 25 minutes, a gentle aural makeover.” [Gramophone magazine] “Rick Cox creates night music filled with echoes and murmurs, in the shape of a single piece stretching out into complete silence.” [Gérard Nicollet, Octopus (France)]