More “Achingly Beautiful”
A nice review came in from Ink19 down in Florida last night. Short and sweet but very complimentary. The best part is the opener:
The Flying Change … has taken pain, heartbreak and hope and made an achingly beautiful album.
We’ll add it to the rest of the pile of people that have been brought to their knees by the beauty of this record. And we’ll thank them. And we’ll see if any of these new songs and ideas will hold up to the beauty that was created with this record. And we’ll think maybe so maybe so.
The song I am enjoying right now is called “You” and will perhaps be, in the vein of Valentine’s Day, a further step on the road that joins the dance and beat-oriented tradition with the throaty folk troubadours like Cohen, Dylan, etc. Yes, I’m being pretentious but I’m also being half serious. How do we get a dance orientation (repetition, propulsion, momentum) and couple it with organic instruments, sly baroque arrangements, a minor key and a lower register. I guess we’ll find out. I have capo-ed the 1st fret and I play an F to an Am and then shift to a C for the chorus. Simple. But it’s very sad and wistful.
