Greg Fenton reviews Almost An Island – Past Inside The Present
This album reveals a wealth of heart and meaning to inquisitive minds. It’s a particular revelation if you’re open to its cocktail of sonic release. Disregarding any unnecessary complication, the messages contained breathe directly to a flair of rewarding, innate musicality that still resides within our collective molecular structures in ways that warm and invite the soul into openness.
Created by the interviewing view of the world by Kenneth James Gibson and James and Cynthia Bernard, the music is more about the elegance of calm and reflection than edge and defiance. Stories get more interesting with variation rather than the dull sameness haunted by too much nostalgia. The compositions are touched by gorgeous, breathy harmonies, sometimes drums, twangy guitars hinting at ghosts and an ever-unfolding vistas filled by big spaces, the music contains more than enough emotion to fill the void. A dreamy, reassuring listen of inquisitive, blissful necessity.
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Kenneth James Gibson
Past Inside The Present
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