STEVE COCHRANE This light, hopeful music bursts into your room, like a stream of fresh air, with the first chords of Reason Is The Rising Sun. One can feel a genuine life-maintaining power in the Steve Cochrane's music, which rises the spirit and makes you looking in different way at all your troubles. And then something happens. The troubles start melting and disappearing, like a white smoke over a stove's chimney... And when the music in Mount Fearless and Makes Me Want to Sing becomes calmer and more majestic, the Steve Cochrane's optimism doesn't decrease at all. The music doesn't stream but slowly flows, like a wide river in a green valley. Cochrane is a perfect melodist. And his music possesses one more important quality. With all its majesty, it is not pompous, it is not lofty, but sincere. I would say that the musician works, softly balancing at the board between new age and progressive rock. At Love's Door is full of beauty, piercingly claims the battle A True Olympian, Dancing Under a Starlit Sky enjoys living... All the themes have good composition, pleasant sound, profound arranging. Let's return to the main feature of the album To See It Made Real One wants listening it, mainly because there's a lot of life in the music of Steve Cochrane. It is not illusory, it doesn't designate misty "something-forever-unknown''. It doesn't pretend to be mysterious to seem meaningful and unknowable. You listen the album, and here is the Steve Cochrane's music, in front of you, it is clear and real, and it doesn't make it shallow. Just the composer speaks to you in understandable language. Steve Cochran's music is a music of action, it invites you going and doing what you want. And that's so great!
Serge Kozlovsky |
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