Echoes Of Light and Shadow
by David Arkenstone

Echoes Of Light and Shadow (CD)

David Arkenstone has long been the new age world's great visionary. His music has a distinct imaginative quality to it, using strong melodies and jaunty rhythms to create works that sparkle with whimsy and adventure. And if ECHOES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW proves anything, it's that Arkenstone certainly hasn't lost his touch. True to the album's title, the compositions waver between brightness and mystery. "On the Winds of Innocence" and "Illuminations" are prime examples of the album's more upbeat side, using bass-enhanced rhythms, flutes, strings and the twinkly tones of the African kalimba to create a blissful soundscapes. On the other side of the coin, "Secrets of the Moors," "No Rain, No Rainbows" and "Drops of Starlight" are all deliciously moody with both Celtic and mystical elements to them. Another epic, vibrant effort from Arkenstone!

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This album shows a more restrained and contemplative side to David Arkenstone, exemplified by the melancholy “No Rain, No Rainbows,” the dreamy “Entropy,” and the optimistic “Lightdance.” Echoes of Light and Shadow has an organic sound comparable to Arkenstone’s epic Sketches from an American Journey. As David put it, “There are echoes between music and art, grand intersections where painters ply their canvases and composers shepherd their notes … There’s a natural balance between day and night, as if nothing can really exist, can have its own identity, without its opposite … Here are songs of the dark treasures of the abyss, soaring up to the sheer cliffs of bliss. Because perhaps, if musically, we face the darkness, then also might we hear the light.”

David Arkenstone: guitars, keyboards, mandolin, oud, bouzouki, percussion, bass
Dov: violin, viola
Susan Craig Winsberg: flutes


• Secret On The Moors
• On The Wings Of Innocence
• Dark Star
• Illuminations
• No Rain, No Rainbows
• Lightdance
• Entropy
• At First Light
• Tears In The Rain
• Drops Of Starlight

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