Save Your Light For Darker Days

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1.	Ana Kata 03:37	buy track
2.	Silver Poetry 05:58	buy track
3.	Wide-eyed, Wrapped In Love 05:36	buy track
4.	93 Years On 08:10	buy track
5.	Nothing Left To Say 05:16	buy track
6.	Emberkriess 05:24	buy track
7.	A Lighter Touch 05:16	buy track
8.	Gone 04:22	buy track
9.	After The First Death 05:23	buy track
10.	The Beating Of Her Heart 04:33	buy track

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“If you’re only gonna treat yourself to one chilled instrumental album this year, make sure it’s this one”
5/5 Essential Album DMC Update

“ ..Save Your Light for Darker Days is an album that seems eminently suited to accompanying a book, a dinner or a hangover. It is beautiful…”
The Guardian

“Andy Dobson has been releasing ambient electronica as Digitonal for nearly a decade, but it was only when he hooked up with Egyptian violinist Sammy Bishai that his music really found its own wings…this album features 10 lengthy tracks that ….mutate into cinematic anthems featuring multi-tracked strings and majestic melodies courtesy of guest musicians Ket Arney and Jo Quail"
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“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 4/5

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).

“There are aspects of Save Your Light For Darker Days that aspired to be a big symphony orchestra, kick-ass, film music kind of thing,” says Digitonal’s Andy Dobson. “We are called ‘cinematic’ a lot and there’s definitely a case for that, but having something that’s more intimate actually suits the vibe of a lot of the writing. It wouldn’t work if it was overblown.” In fact, Digitonal’s second album has more of a pared-down, chamber ensemble economy of sound. Yet at times its electronics, beats and instrumental lines sketch out some pretty wide-open spaces.

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released September 8, 2008

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Pioneering neo classical / electronica band Digitonal was founded by producer Andy Dobson in the late 90s and, together with a moveable cast of collaborators, have built a solid reputation for innovative, melodic, beautiful electronic music.

Sitting at the intersection of classical minimalism and classic melodic ambient electronica, they have been a mainstay in the UK electronica scene. ... more

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