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With 'Parallel Light', AndrewWasylyk offers an alternative mix album to 2020's spiritual-jazz and neo-classical masterclass in melody, 'Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation'. This new LP, his third with Athens Of North Records, is as much a different perspective as a companion piece.

The ten songs still circle landscapes for meaning, channelling half-heard melodies and misremembered memories; caught somewhere between settling down and setting out towards the shining levels of the estuary and beyond. Each magnifying the bold, expansive arrangements of FL&TOC with layers are lifted and peeled away.

The soft-focus glow of gently pressed piano keys, the well and wash of strings and brass remain, but the deduction of instrumentation serves to highlight the ornate and offers comfort with this new found space. In the warmth reshaped, a romanticism illuminated.

At the essence of these reframed compositions Wasylyk's blue and gold, mellifluous refrains prevail. It's a seamless, sublime flow from a restless artists and an album quietly reawakened.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Love a bit of Wasylyk, me. For those of you that loved Parallel Light, this is MORE of that stunning loveliness, brimming with moments of tension and release and the same tender melodies. Reworked versions still swim with the soul of the original LP but with the background and textures pulling into view a whole world of harmonic variation.

TRACK LISTING

1. A Further Look At Loss (Alternate Mix)
2. Last Sunbeans Of Childhood (Alternate Mix)
3. Fugitive Light Restless Water
4. The Violet Hour (Alternate Mix)
5. Everywhere Something Sublime (Alternate Mix)
6. In Balgay Silhouettes (Alternate Mix)
7. Awoke In The Early Days Of A Better World (Alternate Mix)
8. (Half Light Of) The Cadmium Moon
9. Black Bay Dream Minor (Alternate Mix)
10. Lost, Aglow