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Review of “holding on letting go” Peter James
This CD is a work of profound art, cleverly taking the listener through differing phases of light and dark, from moments familiar and warm to moments grappling with life above the abyss.
At the beginning, gentleness pervades, but this may simply be the awakening into a new day where thoughts and dramas have not yet come to light, where stones are still translucent in a slumbering brook.
In the first three tracks “aurora”, “in the face of loss” and “this final wish”, and then later “adrift” there is something perhaps reflecting “The Pearl” (Budd /Eno) or early Jeff Greinke, where gentle moods prevail in delicately woven tapestries.
But this flow isn’t all softness and embrace as the forth track “still” takes us into deeper contemplations, and there on moves us subliminally from shadows into light, from simple pulses and rhythm to complexities, from placid pools to tortuous torrents. Finally after plunging into cataclysmic despair the implacable cascade reaches the sea in “a flight of tears”.
Through scintillating patterns of light, diffusions of darkness, moods of deepest reflection, moments locked internally, this panorama of sound progresses and teaches us perhaps that the more we hold on the greater the letting go. A momentous achievement—varied and sublime!
Note that my reviews are purely subjective essays where the music of the moment takes me hither and thither in contemplations within the conscious and in vagaries within the subconscious.
At the beginning, gentleness pervades, but this may simply be the awakening into a new day where thoughts and dramas have not yet come to light, where stones are still translucent in a slumbering brook.
In the first three tracks “aurora”, “in the face of loss” and “this final wish”, and then later “adrift” there is something perhaps reflecting “The Pearl” (Budd /Eno) or early Jeff Greinke, where gentle moods prevail in delicately woven tapestries.
But this flow isn’t all softness and embrace as the forth track “still” takes us into deeper contemplations, and there on moves us subliminally from shadows into light, from simple pulses and rhythm to complexities, from placid pools to tortuous torrents. Finally after plunging into cataclysmic despair the implacable cascade reaches the sea in “a flight of tears”.
Through scintillating patterns of light, diffusions of darkness, moods of deepest reflection, moments locked internally, this panorama of sound progresses and teaches us perhaps that the more we hold on the greater the letting go. A momentous achievement—varied and sublime!
Note that my reviews are purely subjective essays where the music of the moment takes me hither and thither in contemplations within the conscious and in vagaries within the subconscious.
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