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Spirit Of Eden

THE REVIEW

"Spirit Of Eden" is a rarefied poetry of the soul....

The Angel has spread its wings, embracing the whole world to protect it from the storms of life, bending slowly over it, in an infinite wingspan, it holds it close, in a most delicate embrace. Mark Hollis with his voice manages to embark on this canonical journey in the most appropriate ways of the most complete individual rationality, in this Album he described everything he believes in.

The instruments confess, there are a few chords carefully measured in a shy and timid melody, the desire to describe the fragile suffering of a voice hidden by fears, wanting to communicate and declare itself openly. The tracks configure the art of divine inspiration and perspiration, fueled by the soul in a tight personal refuge, a confused struggle to believe in God and in man’s Faith against a nothingness or the belief that nothing exists. Reflecting on the immortal creator is no simple task, encountering daily paradoxes, our flaws, our ego, sometimes so small and insignificant, is a deep truth that can overflow and find refuge in music saturated with personal sensitivity.

The thought is based on the premise that everything originates from a God, and how do we behave towards Him? In the right or wrong way? If we believe, if we understand, if we configure or if everything is based on the fact that we might not believe in anything and thus be catapulted into two unfathomable abysses of thought, it is merely an ontological question of existence. There are many passages between earth and sky, between reality and the dream of our unaware philosophical perception as well as an internal force called "Faith".

Six long tracks weighed in calibrated doses, healing, but above all reflective, no synthesizers but enormous soft-jazz imprints. "The Rainbow" and "Eden" begin with blues trumpet, gentle guitar, muffled percussion, the piano marking solitary notes, the piercing harmonica urging the sun to appear after a bad storm, while the voice floats on enormous white clouds stained by the colors of the rainbow, guiding you towards Eden, that earthly paradise where the notes overlap between highs and lows of slightly aggressive, pompously sparse turbulent currents, while time all around starts to slow down and the pain vanishes, like a miracle, only peace reigns "Desire" the harmonica accompanies the organ and the clock hands mark earthly time, among the chords of a guitar and the sporadic intrusion of the trumpet, giving glimpses of instrumental explosion like fireworks "Inheritance" presents a sad day, sax, clarinet, and oboe, like acrobats give the strength to direct the thought elsewhere and stronger and stronger is the desire to smile "I Believe in You" untouchable, mystical, a sublime catharsis, organ and angelic choirs opening the heart to the eternal gift of shareable love, the equality of peace of the embodied senses "Wealth" a gentle voice accompanies the piano to take freedom and donate expressive richness letting go in the final notes, of the organ of a church that has atoned us from our sins to redeem hope.

For Mark and not only, the desire for paradise is where the music speaks of spirit, where the spirit speaks of the soul, where God is life and life is music that goes straight to the heart.