Laurel Halo - Midnight Zone
Release Date: 13/03/26
Laurel Halo presents the original soundtrack to Julian Charrière’s film Midnight Zone—a luminous descent through the Pacific’s Clarion‑Clipperton Fracture Zone, where a drifting Fresnel lighthouse lens reveals the deep as a fragile, teeming biome. Halo’s score traces this underwater journey in long, immersive passages of electro‑acoustic ambient, drone, and tactile sound design. Composed primarily on a Montage 8 synthesizer and Yamaha TransAcoustic piano, and layered with violin and viol da gamba, the music resonates with an uncanny physicality—synthetic waveforms sung through wood and strings—patient, submerged, and alive. Midnight Zone becomes a sonic drift between what we seek to extract, fail to understand, and must protect. Packaging: Black vinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve with a booklet featuring imagery from the film. Tracklist: Side A 1. Sunlight Zone 2. Clarion‑Clipperton Zone 3. Oreison Side B 4. Twilight Zone 5. Fracture 6. Abyss 7. Polymetallic Nodule 8. Hadal 9. Sunlight Zone (Strings Version) — CD bonus
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Release Date: 13/03/26
Laurel Halo presents the original soundtrack to Julian Charrière’s film Midnight Zone—a luminous descent through the Pacific’s Clarion‑Clipperton Fracture Zone, where a drifting Fresnel lighthouse lens reveals the deep as a fragile, teeming biome. Halo’s score traces this underwater journey in long, immersive passages of electro‑acoustic ambient, drone, and tactile sound design. Composed primarily on a Montage 8 synthesizer and Yamaha TransAcoustic piano, and layered with violin and viol da gamba, the music resonates with an uncanny physicality—synthetic waveforms sung through wood and strings—patient, submerged, and alive. Midnight Zone becomes a sonic drift between what we seek to extract, fail to understand, and must protect. Packaging: Black vinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve with a booklet featuring imagery from the film. Tracklist: Side A 1. Sunlight Zone 2. Clarion‑Clipperton Zone 3. Oreison Side B 4. Twilight Zone 5. Fracture 6. Abyss 7. Polymetallic Nodule 8. Hadal 9. Sunlight Zone (Strings Version) — CD bonus
