SLOW DANCE

This is a wonder album. Many people know who Anthony Phillips is, yet few actually know his music well. Apart of the conventional, pastoral prog albums early in his solo career (recalling the music of times when he was in Genesis) to many acoustic albums devoted to piano and his beloved guitar. Other than this, he had a few unsuccessful pop flings and some shots for orchestral/synthesizer music. The album in question belongs to latter territory and what an album it is!

Being surrounded with such amount of film (and new age) music, there's very much to compare it to, but only very rarely this type of music has achieved such an emotional effect. A two-part composition is presented, with alternatiing amazingly beautiful, magical themes with endless, interesting variations. Sound is bright but very, very deep and massive at moments (e.g. the beginning sequence).

This is one of my all-time favourite albums. This is for everyone that puts beauty first.