DEEP NIGHT

A raw cry from the dark night of one man's soul.?Cloistered away from the popular culture of 1982,?rural Illinois priest Tony Trosley painted a pastoral?refraction of early 1970s Laurel Canyon watercolors?with this stand-alone set of songs. Openhearted and?naively psychedelic, Deep Night was recorded during?a single pre-dawn marathon, and mixed live-to tape?in an isolated chapel. Cobbled together out of?local players to help fill out this ethereal soundscape,?Trosley's band brought an earnest but bluntly?unsophisticated backdrop to his phaser-drenched?12-string guitar. The Sixth Station - named for a?grim New Testament tableau in which Veronica?washes the tortured face of Jesus - managed to avoid?overtly Christian themes in favor of a mystical?Humanism that resonates timelessly, and to any sort?of listener. This Deep Night is as profound and eerie?as the images conjured by its title.