KEVIN ASBJORNSON
Inner Voices
(c) (p) 1999 PianoOne
10tks/50mins

Singings of wind, rustle of leaves, warm summer rain. Far from the virtual troubles of fussy city, here you can be tete a tete with the Nature, you can feel the life, you can be in private. And music of Kevin Asbjornson brings you to that secret place. Its mood is very bright. There is vitality in it, there is intention to be in this world. And it is easier to be here together with crystal piano melodies by Kevin Asbjornson...

The melodies have something of the hyaline, clinking pianino of George Winston. But Kevin Asbjornson's music is special at the same time, it is simpler, there is a lot of calm joy in it. There is a clear child's vision. The music is understandable and absolutely real: here it is, you can feel it. That reality of Kevin Asbjornson's music lifts the listener up, it allows him being beyond the problems. It makes therapeutic effect, helping to calm and to refresh.

Inner Voices is the second album of Kevin Asbjornson, following its successful debut Awakenings. The pianist has included in his new album not only the instrumental compositions: at I'll Love You From the Heart you can hear profound vocal of Beth Asbjornson. Different events had inspired Kevin to create melodies of Inner Voices; he described them briefly in the album booklet. All the music keeps the same style. But it doesn't make boring, because you always feel the presence of the composer, and he communicates with you in a very warm and pleasant manner. You feel similarly with a glass of good vine, in a company of old, faithful friends, whom you haven't seen for ages. I especially like the touching composition Heart Of Gold, dedicated to Karen, the musician's sister.

And - last but not the least - one more quality of this music. Don't afraid to turn it on in any mood - it will never try to suppress you by any means..

Serge Kozlovsky