The Spirit of Spring Awakens By Chrissie Sheppard

 

The Spirit of Spring Awakens

By

Chrissie Sheppard

Written by

Andy Rogers

 

The run of excellent music coming from husband & wife team Steve & Chrissie Sheppard continues with this beautiful new solo release from Chrissie. “The Spirit of Spring Awakens” is a song to acknowledge the beauty of spring as it awakens each year.

It seems that while sat at the computer working Chrissie looked out at the glorious blue sky and started to think of spring and how everything starts to feel just a little bit better as the weather warms up and nature awakens from its winter sleep once again.

Chrissie’s musical first love is of course the flute and while recent releases have added keyboards courtesy of her husband Steve this latest single uses only the wonderfully atmospheric sounds of solo flute along with some carefully chosen sounds of nature.

The single opens with the sound of a bee buzzing by as birds sing their chorus to welcome spring. Chrissie’s gentle flute then appears as more birds then join the chorus and Chrissie cleverly emulates the sound of a cuckoo using her flute. There is the gentlest of breezes as the birds continue to welcome the season with their songs and more bees fly quietly by while all the while Chrissie’s flute continues to float like clouds across the musical scene. The overall effect of this exquisite blend of nature sounds and Chrissie’s plaintive yet beautiful flute work is similar to the early classic new age flute releases of Terry Oldfield or maybe something by Nigel Shaw.

Slowly the music returns to the theme we heard at the start of the single and as the piece comes to an end we hear the new spring day truly beginning with the sound of church bells in the village calling the faithful to prayer.

All in all, “The Spirit of Spring Awakens” is yet another excellent single release from Chrissie Sheppard. Her love of the flute is well known and as a musician she continues to go from strength to strength - this new single is a  fine addition to her catalogue for any lover of new age based flute music.