A Brave New World By Steve Sheppard ft. David De Michele

 

A Brave New World

By

Steve Sheppard ft. David De Michele

Written by

Andy Rogers

When it comes to music Steve Sheppard is a man with feet firmly on both sides of the fence: he is of course the co-owner of One World Music Radio (along with his wife Chrissie) with many years’ experience as a radio presenter and as an internationally renowned writer & reviewer of all kinds of music. Lately he is becoming increasingly well-known as a maker of remarkable music.

Steve has been playing and releasing his own music for many years; early releases were primarily guitar with the addition of a subtle keyboard here and there. Of late Steve’s music has matured superbly with some wonderful keyboard work both on his own releases and also when accompanying his wife Chrissie’s flute orientated releases. This new release, A Brave New World, is a musical collaboration between Steve and David De Michele and is a giant musical leap forward, taking Steve’s music to new dimensions.   

Steve describes the track as being “cinematic” and that is certainly how it feels to me. Starting with a slightly menacing opening orchestral sequence in the key of A minor, it isn’t long before strings and woodwind take up the next section of the single with a tune in a major key giving a very positive feel. A running harp-sounding motif comes next to lead us further into the work as we move to the middle section of the piece. The orchestration here is superb, a beautiful use of strings with a flute that hovers above it all as a piano plays a short, quiet repeated figure to great effect. The music comes to an emotional climax before the piece ends as it began, back in the key of A minor as the strings take us to the coda at the end of the piece.    

A Brave New World is easily the best yet from Steve Sheppard. The input and assistance he has had from David De Michele has clearly inspired Steve to reach new musical heights. This single is going to fly and deserves to do very well. If cinematic / neo-classical / new age is your music of choice, then this superb single is one you should not miss!