A Journey Of Dreams By Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer

 

A Journey Of Dreams

By

Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

For me this winter has been illuminated and literally lit up, by one of the most beautiful new albums of 2024 called A Journey Of Dreams, and its creators Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer deserve a huge amount of respect for bringing to our musical table one of the most ambient, meditative, and blissful albums of the year thus far, and boy, just when we all truly needed it.

This is a 10 track release that proudly starts with the title track and therefore of course called A Journey of Dreams; soft synths lead our way, with gentle vocalisations, one that leads us carefully towards a dreaming flute, our panacea on this musical journey.

This release is heavenly and is a collection of creations that inspire calm, tranquillity and serenity, pieces like the, The Arrival contain a plenitude of instrumentation including Ethnic Flutes, Chinese Hulusi, Sitar, Piano, and Harmonica.

Each and every composition is curated with such a tender attention to detail, and one of my favourite offerings called The Lightness brought a sense of originality like never before, when on 9 seconds in a small bird flew in from through the window of the artist’s studio, and added its contribution to the piece with a chirp.

Another meditative and soothing gift I must highlight is called Drifting; the layered and textured beauty of this piece mesmerized me completely, we now add the instrumentation of the Oud and Dobro, whilst the piano continues to lay level upon level of bliss, in the same was as David Naegele did back in 1982 with Temple in the Forest.

I cannot praise this album enough, this whole project literally took me back to the golden age of new age music with its multi-faceted perfection and musical exploration, the penultimate offering helped that aforementioned statement further and called Somewhere There Is Hope, an old age new age track that will be held in future decades as a timeless reverie of peace, adding the Sitar to the composition Adams and Geyer create just that.

The journey is concluded with one of the most breath taking compositions that you are likely to hear in this genre and called The Reward. The softness of this specific arrangement manifests an almost ethereal energy; Adam’s flute seems to cry across the ageless dimensions of time and tide, and thus give to its listeners a piece that is truly reflective, heart felt and emotionally touching, all of this can be felt within this concluding creation.

A Journey Of Dreams by Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer has to be one of my personal favourite albums of 2024, and as we draw the closure of this year, we can honestly look back and say that this has to be the best work of the musical duo with ease, and with my heart on my musical sleeve, my personal favourite album of that time too. Albums of this grace and beauty do not come around that often, so I urge you to embrace A Journey Of Dreams by Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer, it is without doubt one of the finest examples of multi-instrumental new age music ever.