ROGER PALMER
Lifetimes: Millenium Suite
(p) (c) 2000 Palmer Music
10tks/43mins

Light and pure like a crystal-clear water stream, this music is easily flowing into your house, enveloping you and making you distract from the humdrum and remember the joyous side of your life. There is no tension in Roger Palmer's melodies, they are weightless and divinely euphonious like a soft breeze, like the air itself filled with the scent of spring. They are lively; they have the spontaneity and optimism of a child with a long and adventurous life ahead. "Lifetimes" is music by a man who has come to the Earth to celebrate and enjoy his life, to love and make something unexpected, eccentric and kind. Roger Palmer's album is a view of a person who is not serious and who knows that all problems are made-up and there is nothing except love. All troubles are kind of going into perspective, and you are listening to this music, then just stop and marvel at how beautiful it is. "Lifetimes" is music by a person who remembers that he is the spirit and creator and that one can not be really live without creativity. The creators are back… But you feel like laughing, because the creators are relaxed and not serious at all.

In fact, Roger Palmer's music is simple; it does not seem to have any mysteries and complex meanings. It is totally here with you, and you can just enter this beautiful world - it is wide open for you. The only thing you need is to be ready to perceive it.

Keyboards played by Roger Palmer, guitars played by William Reedy, voices of whales and lapping of water sound exceptionally harmoniously all together, and create the atmosphere of celebration. "Lifetimes" captivates by its elegant instrumentation and its superior sound design. Besides, Roger Palmer's album has a perfect composition.

"Lifetimes" is the kind of music, which does not belong to any specific style; it assimilates the best of whatever other styles have. It can be called an excellent example of new age music. It is music of the new Earth, it is emerging like a snowdrop on a thawed patch in a bare spring forest breathing the moist air.

Serge Kozlovsky

Translated into English by Anna Dolgacheva