It’s been five years since Solarstone’s last album, ‘island’. In that time life’s given us all plenty to ponder, and Rich Solarstone’s no exception to that. At a point in time where everything is supposed to streamline, his experience might better be described as ‘mainline’. He became a husband, a father again and watched his firstborn come of age.
A lot of new perspectives are naturally going to follow that. No stranger to pouring his creative force, thoughts and feelings into his music, that reaches an apex this month with the release of his ninth album.
Rich Mowatt: “Good music demands that you push yourself, and the best of it also forces you to take risks, and I’m more than aware that ‘innermost’ inherently carries some of the latter.
“In its native form, this is not a club album, but then I didn’t see 2020’s‘ island’ as one either. I believe that area is better addressed by my singles ‘(Shards’, ‘Hope’, ‘Sovereign’ ,‘Thinking Of You’, and so forth), and the three ‘Pure Trance’ albums.
“I feel that tough is good. Hard… is good. It never, ever seems like it when you are in the middle of it, but without going through those, life’s highest highs can’t be felt to their fullest. At its core that’s what ‘innermost’ is about. It’s certainly my most honest long player to date, as well as my most polished. It took five years to make so there’s no excuses for it not to be!”
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