Ever tried to harmonize with the whispering leaves of a cherry blossom? A little like delving into KLT’s “Beauty Of Change”—an elaborated piece, though, albeit put together through the sinews of soul and jazz.
Imagine, rolling in at midnight, on the train fueled by emotional coal, each stop opening a new vista of sonic beauty. Kevin Larriveau drives this locomotive like an old pro alchemist, making auditory gold from base emotions. The voice of Jessy Elsa Palma is nothing short of an aurora borealis: it captures you in its ethereal hues yet grounds you in earthly warmth, best illustrated in the duality underlying “Locked In Paradise.
Themes pirouette on existential tightropes throughout this album; they do not just dance. This collection seeks to unearth our most buried sentiments without resorting to melodramatics or trite tropes. It hisses goals lying forgotten beneath your conscious mind like “Theresa” does when its lush, gospel-inflected notes take flight like doves escaping Pandora’s box —though not too fast lest we forget Gabriel Gorr’s resonant double bass grounding us back.
The addition of Daphnis Moglia’s trumpet and the twilight strings of Interestring Quartet raises this already wonderful album off into astral territory. They swoon somewhere between Haiku poetry and Shakespearean monologues, such that “Beauty of Change” is coated in synesthetic palimpsests.
Deciphering some ancient picture, written across time and memory, KLT posits an argument about change as inexorable but poignant at every step. If only reformations could always be so deep. or groovy.
In other words, travel through these soundscapes if you’re looking for anything more than just beats and hooks place. And seek out the wisdom veiled beneath seven soulful moonlit waves.
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