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Recently Rombalski released an incredible CD of
original material entitled The Awakened Heart, which I urge
anybody that enjoys excellent music to purchase.
A sharp intellect once wrote that the world is
a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel. But as
writer/philosopher Ambrose Bierce once surmised, in each human heart are a
tiger, a pig, an ass, and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to
their unequal activity.
With The Awakened Heart, Bryan
Rombalski has created a symbiotic balance between all of these suppositions,
realizing through the fluid textures of song structure that human emotion is
never 'captured', if indeed it is destined to run free, but most effectively
'revealed' by embracing the polarities that define us in a conscious act of
'balance'.
That which Eastern thought ascribes to the 'yin
& yang' of existence - the plus and minus polarity that leads to the yearning
of expression, reaches expansive heights on this new release.
If Rombalski's freshman release Devotion
exemplified the passionate and meditative approach taken by the artist toward
his music and life, The Awakened Heart serves as an extension of
musical architecture that reaches beyond the boundaries of structure precisely
because it is built upon a firm foundation of discipline and craftsmanship.
Bryan's notes and remarkable phrasing are given
added shape and symmetry by the immaculate accompaniment of noted keyboardist
Armen Chakmakian, and reinforced by the precision of percussionist Paul
Nieft, Jr., forging the steady, incessant, and metaphorical 'beating of
the heart' which when caught in synergy as a trio, bends, flows, swells and
cascades with the acceleration of emotion.
Within the cycle of songs that comprise this CD
one can hear the evolution of form - a music that reaches beyond linear
patterns of predictability, but unfurls with each new listening, reminding us
that while the sun may rise every morning, each day is singular - warming our
souls with fresh promise.
When you listen to this CD you need to do so with fresh ears, because predictability has no place in an 'awakened heart'. And with this new music Bryan Rombalski has created a miraculous synthesis of lush sonic clarity within 10 distinct songs that flow into rich thematic continuity.
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