A new, raving review about the Simon Songs.
The site inactuelles.over-blog.com published a new review from Dionys Della Luce about the album Simon Songs.
"....The result is
an extremely surprising album that connects tender melancholy and uplifting rhythms.
The tunes are melodious, beautiful and calm. Douwe Eisenga knows to immerse us miraculously in a timelessness that we could forever linger in. His minimalism, which he himself describes
as Maximal Music weaves
a network of thematic
connections between the titles, playing with variations
that grab the
listener and breathes a recognizable musical
atmosphere. It's
like a perfume rising
from these pieces, like something elusive and
mysterious sneaks through the heart of this seemingly obvious melodies...".
"...The music is enchanting. She breathes grace, beauty, is dreamy, exalted and has everything to
please highly. The airy suppleness penetrates deep into us, makes us shudder. Although each piece
is beautiful, I prefer the longer, especially the very longest - No. 5 -almost seven minutes. In that piece the spell is even dizzying, especially since the music is pierced
with three silences, so you might think that the
piece is over and
over, while the music then continues again, picking us up and tightening us furher again. Gradually the piece unfolds like an endless and fabulous labyrinth with the development of a continuous
movement which eventually chiming sounds like a call to lose
yourself in the
beauty of the music..."
Read the full review here
