Comme la lumière d'un vitrail By Bernard Reeb

 

Comme la lumière d'un vitrail

By

Bernard Reeb

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

The slow nature of this piece was the first thing that attracted me to this splendid offering from Bernard Reeb, the track is called Comme la lumière d'un vitrail, or in English if my translation is correct Like the light of a stained glass window. This is one of the most fascinating manifestations from his album Rosace, released earlier on this year.

I grew up taking acoustic guitar lessons at college many, many years ago, with the likes of Julian Bream and John Williams being two of my heroes. This reminded me of those days creating music myself, in a self-imposed solitude, the track is very self-expressive, and if we look at the subject matter it is also very redolent of it too.

The slow pastiche of notes and strings played are all a piece of a grand jigsaw of tone and timbre, and for me personally is some of the most artistic I have heard for many a year, one can literally get lost in the moment with this one, perhaps watching the sun kiss the colours of a stained glass window in late autumn, regardless the performance and presentation are simply sublime on Comme la lumière d'un vitrail by Bernard Reeb.