Simple! To simply put it, simple but effective! it's so ... simple and pure that it feels like it walks with you, it's part of you and you feel confort in it. Wow, i'm amazed!
The task of composing, or to simply put it, to create, is fabulous. When inspiration comes, it's a frantic world, we just fly over the world, and Darrel must be on the verge of gaining is own wings.
Who's Darrel Treece-Birch!? Darrel is a Fleetwood (Blackpool) born, a sailor. And today he rides the waves with the multi-million seller TEN, playing keyboards; and as a side project he has a prog band called NTH Ascension. Now that you have directions let's keep talking about this new solo project by Gary Hughes' wingman. Intimist? No. Keyboard Driven? No. Sometimes we find our days white, sometimes blue, and today is green. Greener was Darrel's inspiration for this record. "No more time" is the slap in the face, the end of the line for our abuse to mother earth. Melodic prog music, very ambient and space age in several themes, but most of all, guitar driven. There are here a few vocalized themes with an effective message to us all, so please pay attention to them.
I have a few cuts that became a must in my day's journey. Earthbound is an ELP kind of overture that sets the guidance for the rest of the record. This is not a nostalgic record, is simply the way it should be, and if this feels to you otherwise, just remember who you were, what you are to find out what you'll be, and then you'll feel it too. allthough being a classic rock orientated album, this is a simple way of showing that the prog classic rock didn't died or went belly down by the new tendencies, it really means that the highlights of the 70's and 80's have someone to carry the heritage.
The next highlight is "Requiem Pro Caris (for the ones i most care about)". Those strings sound like arrows, they really pierce. a real cry of love. "Freedom Paradigm" goes among the sounds that i enjoy most, it's guitar driven, heavy meaning and goes along the guitar heroes like Vinnie Moore, Tony Macalpine, Satriani and many more,... a stellar cut! It starts with a arabian strong melody, inmediately giving us the paradigm, that feel of slavery in egypt building the pyramids, great theme and great guitar work.
There are 15 pieces of real quality music for you to discover. when i first heard them, one of my first conclusions was that some of this tracks could very well be the soundtrack for a movie, a bbc wild life program, something. Earthbound could have been the overture for the para-olympic games, such is the strengh that the theme brings, a force of life, that runs in those athletes that with their incapacities they have the will and the power to do it, and they do it better than the most of us, without any inhability. You'll figure it out too. Also this conclusions only reinforce the idea of the higher quality of this work. A must have not only for prog people but for the good music connainseurs. Darrell is quickly becoming a reference in the music world, as a composer he is very much a complete writer. here's a name to follow very closely.
A mandatory album!
by McLeod (ROCKS NATION)
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