1 Aug 2005

Review by CD-Services (UK)

"dreamy orchestral synthesizer music with both a distinctly optimistic haunting quality and an uplifting melodic strength" 

If you wanted to describe this as a phrase, you'd have to say "dreamy orchestral synthesizer music with both a distinctly optimistic haunting quality and an uplifting melodic strength". A single musician who's clearly influenced by the likes of Vangelis, Mike Oldfield and Enya, and one who's clearly got the compositional gift of being able to create instrumental music that is richly textured and full of lush-sounding, symphonic synths that can be relaxed at one end or positively epic sounding at the other ...
... The music is very "filmic" with string synths well to the fore on most tracks and lush orchestral drifts in evidence throughout. The music largely has that huge expansive feel so typical of a lot of Vangelis' works but with more of a richly textured sound overall, as the combinations of string and space synths, piano, occasional drums and deep rivers of synth bass are all assembled and arranged to provide an easily digestible album with substance as well as grace, beauty and passion. Fans of Vangelis and anything remotely resembling symphonic and orchestral sounding electronic music that still sounds totally like synth music and not an orchestra, will find many happy hours in music such as this