Totality 6.10.94- "I have to admit that I was skeptical about the prospect of reviewing a CD attempting to recreate a total eclipse of the sun from over 10 years ago using music as the medium. The whole idea seemed too trippy, too out there. I mean, really, how could a guy take music and recreate a solar event? I just wasn't buying it. I was wrong. Totality begins quietly, subtly, almost too much so as I had to turn the volume up to make sure that the CD was playing. However, the music slowly built from its almost inaudible beginnings, creeping through the soundscape, matching the deliberate path of the moon as it begins to eclipse the sun. Fluid is the best way to describe this record for the music flows more and more steadily at the beginning, crests in the middle, then slowly subsides. In fact, the CD is divided into three parts just like the eclipse: "The Approaching Darkness at Noon", "Totality", "The Moon Leaves Us." These tracks mirror the movement of these celestial bodies; whereas "The Approaching Darkness" moves slowly as the rhythm builds, mounting slightly in power at a glacier's pace. Likewise, as the aural eclipse reaches totality the base line throbs as one might imagine celestial flames pulsing around the edges of the Moon. Trying to recreate a unique cosmic event through music is a bold and lofty goal with many risks, but one that Steven K. Smith has attained through no small effort." --Michael Diaz 1340 magazine