Iridescent
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley September 1, 2024
Artist – Louis Anthony deLise
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After listening to the singular tracks that makeup Louis Anthony de Lisle’s latest work, Iridescent over the past months, it is an absolute pleasure to be able to relax into the beautiful, gentle and romantic mood woven simply for pleasure.
Commencing with the lovely Iridescent written for friend Nancy Rumbal’s birthday, on which she plays oboe, the delicate blend of piano, oboe, with the subtle addition of a bracket of jazz, makes a lovely jazz fusion blend with which to commence a special, romantic moment in time.
Our Golden Hour is a softly floating song which while structured encourages a walk back down memory lane to meeting a first love, the golden hour spent in sublime bliss; a new beginning, a poignant time always to be treasured.
Paying tribute to those which were lost is the slightly pensive, deeply emotional The Loves We Lost (2020 -2022) for those whose lives changed forever during the COVID pandemic.
Gentle, divinely relaxing and sensuous Some Kind of Lullaby is absolute romance, delivered with emotion: a man, his piano, the lights low, the woman he loves being worshiped. A song with which to fall in love.
Dusk; a moody, delightfully elegant song reminiscent of the bewitching time between now and then, when light is gently softening, days colours are slowly blending into night, a time of dreaming, allowing the emotions to drift as you a walk arm in arm with the one you love, towards a future still unknown.
Nancy Rumbal gently ushers in Aurora, before a soft joining of strings brings with it a touch of almost but not quite ’Hollywood” romance in a delightful bend of harmonies, before deLise arrives with a lovely cool jazz segment, in a song full of softy teasing moments with which to celebrate one of nature’s more awe inspiring moments: Aurora or Dawn arising.
That First Morning is a song of wonderment, of new beginnings, of hope for the future, with the special person in your life; which leads eloquently into the divinely beautiful Summer’s Glow wafted into being with cello and oboe, partnered with subtle piano, flute and guitar discovered in the blend which pleases the senses.
Drawing a delightfully sensual, relaxing and romantic work to a close is The Blue Hour, singular, mellow, a tribute to the darker, mystical shades of blue just before the sun rises and sets; a blue hour, a moment in time with which to reflect, the shades of a darker blue bathing the earth in delicate soft light.
When Louis Anthony deLise takes time out from his busy life to sit and compose on a personal level, the music is guaranteed to be something very special. Iridescence is in all its many layers of emotion, pure bliss for forty short but delightful moments in time.