Atmospheric Electronic | Danny Peck: Where Hope Goes, Fear Follows

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Atmospheric Electronic
Danny Peck: Where Hope Goes, Fear Follows
(Independent / 14 August 2024)

It comes as no surprise to learn that Danny Peck is both musician and scientist after listening to a few of the tracks on his album Where Hope Goes, Fear Follows. 

Danny Peck, album cover for Where Hope Goes, Fear Follows

The album consists of instrumental tracks characterized by a cinematic sense of emotional flow, along with a mastery of electronic music creation. They're architecturally sound as well as emotionally stirring.

Peck goes by several different names, or has over the years as an artist, including dep and A Defiant Heart. This time, he's releasing the album under his real name - the dude who's been researching the physics of music for three decades or so. 

He's a software developer and engineer, but while you may get distracted by the sheer variety of sounds and effects he can produce, you'll also be swept up in the musicality of the tracks.

Each takes you on a trip with an energy that builds and leads to a kind of ecstatic release, or a hypnotic, peaceful state. 

The new album marks a departure from his previous work. Peck talks about his development as a musician in a statement.

"'Where Hope Goes, Fear Follows' is about starting over, it's about growing older and facing one's intensifying thoughts around legacy and mortality. I made this while going through a lot of changes in my life, and honestly it's also a lifetime culmination of my own creative process.

"I've spent the better part of the last 3 decades making music in one form or another. I started experimenting in the 90s, fiddling around with trackers in MS-DOS before I started using notation software in Windows."

Changes in his life led to a new way of thinking.

Musician Danny Peck in his studio

"Fast forward to 2023: my wife and I moved to a small town in Michigan, and I decided, by both necessity and intuition, that it was time to start over. I built my studio from the ground up, replaced all of my existing software, started over with new hardware and equipment. I kept my trusty Korg piano keyboard, but everything else was a complete reinvention.

"I moved on from tracker-driven music making software. For me, this was the key. Tracker sequencers, I realized, forced me into a rigid grid, stifling my creativity, and forcing me down the same path with each song again and again. Everything I made, to me largely sounded and felt the same. I needed a change."

The atmospheric music is perfect for work, study, or relaxing with a book. 

Tracklist:

  • 1. To Rise and Fall 
  • 2. We Can Live Underground Forever 
  • 3. The Gate 
  • 4. Controlled Flight 
  • 5. Time is Not Real 
  • 6. There Must Be Something Special When We're Gone 
  • 7. Dawn 
  • 8. In the Pine Trees 
  • 9. The Edge of Reason 
  • 10. Where Hope Goes, Fear Follows 

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