Growth By George Pendred

 

Growth

By

George Pendred

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

I have had a fascination for the most mysterious sounds of flute based instrumentation for decades; I think this started with the reverie of Gheorghe Zamfir’s theme for the 70’s movie Picnic At Hanging Rock, this lead me further into the welcoming arms of flute performers like Terry Oldfield and Deuter, and now it seems George Pendred.

However, there is a truly delicious flavour here that explores that vibration of mysterious things even further on Pendred’s latest sing Growth. The inquisitive opening seeks its way, or perhaps Growth, then its explorative narrative builds ever onward into more complexity and fluency.

By the mid-way section of the piece a rhythm is fully formed and the additional keyboards and piano give a wonderfully haunting energy to the overall theme of the composition, one that once it achieves its goal, disappears gently into a coda of completion

Growth by George Pendred is a fascinating new single from the artist, it’s one of those songs that hooks you into its tale, and doesn’t not let you go, you will not be pressing skip on this one, Pendred has built a perfect platform here on Growth, a single that should indeed take residence in the charts, and possibly in the minds and hearts of the ever eager listeners too.