Four Moments By John Hamilton

 

Four Moments

By

John Hamilton

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

This emotional new release from John Hamilton paths a somewhat moving voyage through emotions, love, life and loss, and carefully curated onto one ep called Four Moments. It is great to see him back after a short break as he had surgery on an ulnar nerve in December, so this sees his return to music after recovering from that.

The first track entitled Once is a memory filled opus that everyone of us have felt at some point in some way or another, that scrapbook of memories and moments is touched from the fragmenting elements of time, in a delicate, rhythmic and fluent composition, where love can be gently felt from the piano of Hamilton.

There is a certain more positive element about this next piece, that whilst it is emphatic, it also contains a flickering of doubt and momentarily hesitance, but Hamilton’s performance is buried in the summer of a solo piano performance, where hope and love still burns powerfully in the afternoon sky and in the arrangement called Still.

Almost explores the autumnal effect of a flagging relationship, one holding on by the tendrils of a hope that can never been fulfilled, a piece filled with passion and emotive genius, one that has depth and tenderness and desire in the weave of the track, but highlighting the fall from grace, as the leaves drift down from the tree of love, to the floor of reality, note the coda on this piece, it says it all.

The winter of our season of love descends upon us as it is over, as we listen to Gone. This final concluding offering is a heartfelt narrative of loss, the performance here is touching and incredibly palpable, this is Hamilton at his very best; one can almost hear the words as they part forever. All the times when you are lonely where you are, please don't hate me then, I just could not pretend, it’s over.

Four Moments by John Hamilton is a solo piano EP of four previous singles, giving us the journey of love life and loss, the sensitivity of his touch on the piano is remarkable and deeply moving, there can be no doubt that Hamilton is playing from his heart to yours, making this a beautifully moving opus in four parts, and a collection of piano beauty that should be celebrated by all fans of the genre.