Glimmers by Patrick Kelly

 

Glimmers

By

Patrick Kelly

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

I have long been an admirer of the work of Patrick Kelly; my musical relationship with him takes me as far back as 2005 and his stunning album Beyond The Horizon, back then I was working on local radio in the UK, now some 25 years later I am co-owner of one of the largest internet stations on the planet for this genre, and his music today is as moving, uplifting and as beautiful as it was back then for me, in those early days of my instrumental musical love affair.

Here on Glimmers Kelly produces a full flowing narrative that contains flourishing tracks that abound with joyful phrasing, and emotively inspired compositions like the opening title track called Glimmers, this powerful scene setting narrative is a total halcyon moment of new age musical bliss.

The album is one of the most attractive of its style I have heard this year with ease, and offerings like the stunning longer form, called Signs hovers with intent, one that is so sophisticated and charming, while the sparkling reverie of tracks like Resonance, gift me a moment of instrumental heaven, the stunning multi-instrumental nature of the piece with its expanding synth and keyboard work, is so very encompassing and soothing to the senses.

The clarity that a track like Hope can bring is remarkable, building layer upon layer of superior keyboard work, to achieve a textured tapestry of calm in an intelligent universe of tranquillity, whilst offerings like Intuition offer a more ethereal energy for the listener, an angelic like theme is explored on the bed of soothing synths and a natural keyboard progression, and it seems to literally dance with the narrative created before it, in a timeless and sensual manner.

Mystery is our penultimate offering; the energy of this piece has a quality of sublime note and smoothness, almost touching the hem of a chill out styled ethos, with its very light percussions and back felt beats, here is a piece that with its added female vocalisations will no doubt become a fan favourite in the years to come.

So for our concluding musical narrative, it contains a similar theme to the aforementioned Mystery, but a deeper composition overall, one that takes me back to the heady days of Medwyn Goodall and Phil Thornton, Peace is a pastiche of serenity and tranquillity, on a bed of some of the most delicious synths ever, and with ease one of the best ways with which to leave the album.

Glimmers by Patrick Kelly is an album from a true master of his trade, and one of the finest examples of instrumental new age music there is, including instrumentation such as strings, synths, guitars, drums and percussion, piano, duduk, vocals and flute. Glimmers is an album that pushes the boundaries of musical beauty to an entirely new level.