Greg Fenton reviews Snowdrops – Singing Stones (Volume 1) – Gizeh Records
Listening to Singing Stones is an experience filled with wonder. Captivated by unfolding, unknown sounds as they suggest bigger pictures in the mind while pouring nourishing tones into your soul is always a gratefully received prospect. Perhaps the two pieces initially grabbing your attention are the two longest numbers: Crossing and Artic Passage occurring primarily because of the duration of their ideas like sequences of events happening in real-time, sculpting accompanying passengers on a train journey, soaking up the imaginary scenery.
As much as music is about emotion, memory, and all the other things that make us human it’s also about thinking about our surroundings and the nature of it all. On that note, Snowdrops create music worth much more than a drop in the ocean achieving a balance between two points, light and dark. Alongside the grey in between. Either way, it is an immersive, classical expression that merits every moment of your attention providing rich rewards in return.
Incorporating touches of jazz alongside the spark of radical electronics into the equation movement flows freely, and improvised seconds only add to the impact. Try the beautiful, The Weather Project to explore traditional elements as piano chords elevate the senses contrasted by an edgier drift of dramatic intention signifying an altogether different prospect. Or the heavier intensity of The River as it meanders, soaring and falling drenched in explicit danger while rapids exorcise ghosts. It is that dance alternating, generating a not knowing what could happen next that makes the album in all of its brilliant entirety such a thrilling, deeply satisfying listen.
Release: October 25
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