Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The spotlight on Steve Logan should be shining so bright that the reflection we see in our dark glasses would be one of complete illumination and thanks for the music released in his name.
That is not a complaint, after all to be in Steve’s company is to feel as though you are in an elite conversation, and whilst you know it won’t be a select crowd for long, in the meantime what passes is a sheer and scintillating continued introduction.
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We have become almost hypnotised by the sense of the quick reel on social media, the snapshot of a film, a conversation, a short piece of fan fiction given a human face…it reflects our capacity to ignore the long game, to allow the dictation of modern thinking that we can be amused for less than a minute before requiring shifting our attention to the next quick fix of pleasure.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Nothing Lasts Forever, even quality and heroism struggles to be remembered beyond the broken subjective details etched in stone and written in ink as decades turn to centuries, as truth becomes lost in the myths of time.
It is in this proof of burden that we turn to the dream of being in the here and now and understanding that we can embrace what may have alluded us in the past, the forgotten hit that in the moment of release we can find comfort, discover illumination, be one in the knowledge that our senses can be thrilled in our life time….the era that matters most to our souls.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Acknowledging the absurdity of life is a gift that passes by so many people, caught as they are in the stringent sobriety of emotion that they cannot see the joke for the punchline they imagine.
To relish the sense of the absurd is the privilege of those that see beyond that punchline, those enigmatic beings who seek out our souls with every desire to inform us of the generosity of the meaningful purpose of farce and logical madness.
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Peace is a state of mind that is all too fleeting; a problem solved can only be thanked for so long before another comes along to send troubles into the world. This is one of the truths of peace, that we must bask for as long as possible in the presence of the Tranquillity of Mind, the belief that we can breathe easier and not feel the pull of other’s insurrection and fierce opponent of concord and cease-fire.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The poet’s responsibility is to reveal the inner beauty in the uncomfortable feeling. Sadness and hurt are as vital as joy and celebration when creating a piece of art that digs deep into the heart, and even in a melancholy view can be uplifting and reverential, a pleasure of memory despite what was lost in the process.
Everything we know is down to the lessons that were given to us with a price, that of love, for in that love we know one day we will lose that special person, they will leave us; it is an inevitable as a poet’s lament or a musician’s exploration.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Collaboration across genres can be seen as more than acceptance, it is a quality of endeavour that pushes not only boundaries but the mind as well, it makes the soul grow in ways that can only be expressed as nurturing, understanding, and creatively beautiful.
What In The World is apt phrase when we first hear the way that a relationship between two different styles can not only work, it can be enlightening, and that is exactly what the merging of music finds as the exciting track by Montao fills the air and we understand the fruit of endeavour and the brilliance of association.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Are we the parts that we chose to cultivate, the interests we refused to let go; or are we the result of determination that was passed down by the branches of our family tree that never had the chance or the choice to be realised in the past, and which only now are being asserted in our possible futures?
Choices they are not ours to make, despite the illusion of options and preference, in truth the determination of variety has been long selected before we arrived at the moment of truth, and it is moment few of us our willing to acknowledge, let alone discuss in conversation or admire in the world of art.
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It feels as though maybe Time had stopped for a while, the clocks refusing to move forward in fear of losing a precious commodity, not wanting to reveal the final performances of arguably one of music’s most important figures of the latter half of the 20th Century, and yet after two long years in which the world has found its way to damage itself, what holds dear is that art has the power to heal if people are willing to spend time in its company and do more than pay lip service to its message and its potency.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The world could be said to be too constricted by the narrowness in which we look for human artistic longevity. It is perhaps our own fault, for we have become enamoured with the world of the quick fix, the instant image, the need to swipe quickly if the image does not immediately grab our attention or find us simpering in the presence of what we consider momentary beauty.
We need to relearn the art of patience, to meld the now and the then together so we can see how the lines were created between the two moments of appreciation.