| Artist: Bob Holroyd Album: Afterglow Released: 1 November 2011 |   |
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With Bob Holroyd it is easy to see the musician behind the music. His involvement in such an impressive range of projects leads one to conclude that he is a man of many interests and talents - playing music out of his own life. His seventh studio album is Afterglow (45'00"), an elegantly melancholic CD from the temple of stilled thoughts. A sort of third stream music, influenced equally by classical and ambient, the 12 tracks on Afterglow are a constantly shifting interplay between piano, cello, trumpet and guitar - with Holroyd's atmospheric treatments hovering intelligently over each. Throughout this work the music is understated, yet possesses an ethereal sense of certainty. From grown-up lullabies and electronic elegies to minimalistic classicism and space age drift Afterglow is a succession of small moments, the tiny details connected in precise order. Listening to it is a beautiful experience. This kind of music makes the world vibrate in ever so slightly closer harmony.
- Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END 21 September 2011 | |
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