Rejuvenescence By Bryan Quinn

 

Rejuvenescence

By

Bryan Quinn

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

There is something about a flute release that creates and manifests many a time worn image, a memory so deep that it still lies hidden somewhere in the heart, thus is the power of the flute, here on Rejuvenescence, composer and performer Bryan Quinn on his debut album travels to musical locations, and explores the tonal narrative of many emotions feelings and moods that spawn from the vibrations created within this fascinating journey.

The opening of this riveting new creation is called Relationshipwrecked, a slow mournful repose gets our voyage underway, on a track that cries into the night for a love now lost and gone forever, only a flute can bring such poignancy.

This is a debut album and the artist has gone full out to explore the various highways and byways of his musical prowess, like the blues composition simply called Blue, where the flute mixes up with crying guitars and a slow seductive drum beat.

Here the listener can find something that will entice them, draw them in, perhaps the mystical energies of pieces like Rumination, a track created by thought for thinkers, or perhaps Introspection, where the thinker takes the thoughts and looks inwards, this track was of course released as a single earlier on this year and still to this day I think it is one of Quinn’s most masterful creations.

Deeper into the weave of the album we find a more upbeat reverie entitled Redemption, a freeing of ones shackles can be felt throughout this sparkling performance, one can literally feel the acceptance of happiness kick in in this fun manifestation.

The penultimate offering from the album would be one of my personal favourites and called Reflection, perhaps because I have personally done a heck of a lot of it over the passing years. Moreover it was the sensitive performance by Quinn that made this piece the highlight of the album for me, the perceptive and caring presentation is one of the finest I have heard from a flute performer for years.

Rejuvenescence is our last port of call and completes our long and deeply moving flute voyage of many mixed emotions with the artist; we have bounced off the bottom of our lake of feelings, drifted in the mid waters of life and sprung forth like a salmon from the cascades of rejuvenation. This new and debut album by Bryan Quinn concludes with the title track that many of us who have been wounded by life and love will resonate with, perhaps heal with and may one day may be able to move on with, a spectacular anthem like presentation on flute can be found here by the artist, one that rounds off the entire album with such style, intelligence and character.

Rejuvenescence by Bryan Quinn has to be one of the most inspiring debut releases of 2024; this is a fine place with which to start a musical expedition, and above all Quinn has used music as a cathartic tour of emotional healing, and as music is probably the only medicine that ever works without side effects, and is the ultimate language of pure truth, his creation of this his debut album is a master stoke that needs to be both respected and applauded, and with that in mind I predict a huge hit for Rejuvenescence by Bryan Quinn.