12 tracks. Running time 65:17 Mingo has followed up his excellent The Once and Future World with this new release titled This Side of the Night. He continues to demonstrate a knack for inventive album and track titles. This time the theme is journeying through past and present times. The music is again comprised of hard edged drones with occasionally rhythmic additions; and I think the production quality has improved on this latest work. Beginning the journey is “the second sun”. Drones like bright silver ribbons circling around each other consort with metallic edged heavenly chorales. Imagine a scene on another world with one warm red sun setting while a bright white second sun rises to flood with the planet with new photons. Occasionally some sounds will seem familiar. Take the longest, at over ten minutes, track “Gates”. Eerie high pitched washes brush across the sound field like sonic clouds of charged particles. When they come in heavily layered it can sound a bit like effects from Star Trek such as the transporter beams. Drums knocking in the background and then Kitaro-esque echoing plonky notes add to the atmosphere. In parts this piece becomes a little disturbing when the washes reach the intensity of a scream. For me one of the most captivating tracks is “and colors are more beautiful there”. Brooding drones hum and reverberate forming a kind of melody. Pretty notes like sonic raindrops and Kitaro-esque celestial synth refrains add more mystery but also contrast with the darker elements of this piece. Mingo has crafted another winner with This Side of the Night. It's abstract enough to give the listener lattitude in what thoughts, feelings, or impressions are conjured up. Those not afraid to delve into hard edged ambient territory will find this a rewarding album.