RICHARD AMOS
To be oneself
This album resembles a parti-colored carpet of wild flowers when you are going through boundless field and around you, where’ve you look there is a blossoming of the spring saturated with heady delicate aroma which turn your head a little bit. This multi-colored florescence and spring warmth fill you with an elation and optimism, spur to go on living and enjoying a mere fact that you exist and there’s the world around you which is full of surprises and striking events. What more can happen to you? But you are looking forward to it without fear, quite the contrary you are foretasting new adventures and good news… At first glance the music of the “Breathe…” album strikes as eclectic and miscellaneous. The album includes lyrical new age tunes (“Open Sky”) and energetic electronic themes (“Dreamer”), and pop songs-ballades (“I see you”), and even fiery dancing remixes. But when you lend an attentive ear to Richard Amos’s music you come to realizing that there is something common in it. It is imbued with joy and optimism. There is no place for melancholy and light sadness in it. And its seeming unlikeness enables you to enjoy in full this surprisingly beautiful bouquet which the composer gives you as a gift. While listening to “Breathe…” we become aware of a constantly changing composer. The calmness is alien to Richard Amos. He is in a persistent search and Richard Amos enables us to follow him and participate in this search. And all compositions of different styles are united with one more common feature: all of them are very melodious. At the same time Richard Amos’s music is live and modern. Therefore the album “Breathe…” is worthy to be defined as an outstanding specimen of the modern music. If you are sick and tired of being sad and suffering from misunderstanding and monotony of the world that surrounds you, you ought to find this album. Once you switch Richard Amos’s music on you feel as if you take away the dark glasses that make you see outward things in black-and-white colours. And the wonderful parti-colored world full of whimsical, unseen up to now colours appears before you. It was constantly here, before you, and you just need to see it… Just to take away the scales from your eyes… There is some incompleteness in the music of the “Breathe…” album. So much the better: we’ll be waiting for a forthcoming continuation of a creative search of Richard Amos – a talented composer of our time!
It makes no sense of speaking
Serge Kozlovsky P.S. Translated by Tatyana L. Permyakova.
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