By
Written by
Steve Sheppard
There are times as a writer and radio presenter that you come
across something so decidedly different, so exciting, so wonderfully fresh,
that a tingle runs down the whole of your body igniting your senses along the
way, this is exactly what happened to me when I listened to the new Michelle Qureshi single Traitors Among Us, in what I rate as a
land mark sea change for the artist, and one of the most exciting moments of
her musical career in my view.
This scene setting movie styled opus takes on a vibrant
journey through instrumental music, in exactly the same way as a Phillip Glass soundtrack, in fact at
times I liked this new manifestation to Glasses’ works. The piece has a
blissful symphonic gaze to it and a delicious electronic element too, with
synths and keyboard moments flourishing in a glorious crescendo of genius.
Traitors Among Us is a powerful step into the world of
the cinematic style for the artist, and in my personal view is the most
exciting work thus far from the composer, reaching across a void of emptiness
to grasp at one of the most insightful and exhilarating creations possible. When
I first heard this piece I was rooted to the spot, and my only expression that
was valid was a solid wow.
This single has everything; it is a musical glossary of great quality, with a accelerando in its early stages moving the piece on, then in the latter half going from adagietto to adagio and adagissimo until its inevitable soothing coda. This is what masterful instrumental music should all be about, a world class performance from Qureshi for Traitors Among Us, in what should by right be her biggest hit ever.
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