Release Date: December
31, 2016
Label: Overland Mountain Music
While listening, it becomes easy to wax philosophically
once I get into the flow of some good instrumental music, especially with talented
artist like Ms. Kaye.
Kathryn is a few weeks away from releasing another
masterful creation of piano tracks titled Reflected
in a Flowing Stream. Once again we see a recording artist making the
important connection to our surroundings, more specifically to nature. The
sheer beauty of shimmering water gives us the reflections of life and our own
image looking back at us. The river serves as the perfect mirror particularly
one that looks so calm like on the cover of this CD. It looks like a natural
shiny glass window that implores you to consider it as your own way of
expressing your deepest thoughts and feelings. Like a sounding board that does
not speak back but only observes, the water initiates and completes a process.
It calls to your soul and inner spirit.
I do not think you could possibly go wrong with such a
group of talent assembled in one studio. Besides Kathryn’s talented fingers at
work you get Will Ackerman (guitar) and Tom Eaton (bass, accordion) at the helm
producing, engineering and recording and Tony Levin (bass), Jeff Oster (flugelhorn),
Jill Haley (English Horn), Eugene Friesen (cello), Jeff Haynes (percussion) and
Charlie Bisharat (violin) adding their talents to the mix. It is like an
all-star cast that usually comes together at the Imaginary Road Studios. Most
of the artists I work with record there and every time a new recording is
released it is of the highest quality without exception. Reflected in a Flowing Stream is another one to add to the list.
Kathryn’s piano is very much like a flowing stream. Her
music reflects the listener’s personality and mood; it brings it to the surface
encouraging a good look at a window to the truth. It is absorbed then bounces
off you with positive vibrations and touches everyone within listening
distance. Every track offers a different aspect of nature that we each
recognize, enjoy and ultimately relate to in our own way.
Deeply moving and expressive, the piano and every
instrument that joins in makes each track a complete experience that can be
enjoyed more than once. I would think each time you hear it you may find
something different you did not notice before, perhaps a subtle nuance that either
makes you feel happy, sad, melancholy or at peace with an internal calmness
that can only be achieved by listening and letting the tones and atmospheres of
the music take you to each special place the track titles suggests.
Kathryn, you have done it again; Reflected in a Flowing Stream is beauty and perfection all in one
package topped off with a big red bow for the Holidays and a great way to start
the new year.
5/5
Stars
Tracks:
01. A Lark in the Last Night of Day
02. As Seasons Change )
03. Procession of Moon and Stars
04. The Stillness Before Dawn
05. No Reason Not to Dance
06. Winter’s Deepest Sleep 07. As Summer Fades to Fall
08. April Rain
09. A Shower of Summer Nights
10. Reflected in a Flowing Stream
11. Arctic Night
Tracks:
01. A Lark in the Last Night of Day
02. As Seasons Change )
03. Procession of Moon and Stars
04. The Stillness Before Dawn
05. No Reason Not to Dance
06. Winter’s Deepest Sleep 07. As Summer Fades to Fall
08. April Rain
09. A Shower of Summer Nights
10. Reflected in a Flowing Stream
11. Arctic Night
Keith “MuzikMan” Hannaleck
December 21, 2016
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