The Sun At Midnight For Gunn, one of the true joys of creating instrumental music is allowing the colors of the instruments and sounds to convey the meaning, just as a lyric would in a pop song. "I love the idea of letting the listener ascribe personal meaning to the songs I write," she says. "For me, The Sun At Midnight is about hope, personal faith and inspiration. In my mind, even at the bleakest times, there is always hope, and just because you can't see the sun doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That theme, however, can be applied in many ways. Ultimately, its meaning lies within one's own imagination. It could represent a ray of light in one's darkest hour or it could simply be a full moon on a clear night lighting up the landscape as the sun would during the day. I love to encourage people to create their own place in my music, to get lost in it as a soothing escape from an often stressful world." After establishing herself as a versatile musical presence on Nicholas' best-selling album Crossroads - composing, producing, arranging, engineering and mixing virtually the entire recording, Gunn came into her own with her popular 1997 solo debut Vanity Of Venus, a perfectly realized weaving of modern love and the romantic spirit of mythological legends. "Working together with Nick on these projects and being together practically twenty-four hours every day has been tremendously challenging, but also highly rewarding," she says. "We find that our strength and weaknesses compliment each other and make for a successful relationship both personally and professionally." |
