DREAM MAGAZINE
(USA)
DECEMBER 2001

Piano Magic
I Came to your Party
Dressed as a Shadow
(Acuarela,
P.O. Box18136,
28080 Madrid,
Spain
www.acuareladiscos.com)

George Parsons
www.dreamgeo.com

Three songs, 17 minutes; and it seems to go on for twice as long at least, but that's not in any way a complaint. Piano Magic make a sound that has a lot of depth, and though it may sound spare, or even minimal, it always packs a wallop. The title track; fragile ectoplasmic fingers reach out like sea-tossed tide-pool life, in slow motion, into the void, feeling as lonely as lonely feels, with spoken vocals by Angèle David-Guillou. Glowing in the darkness, warm within the chill. Flickering neon smeared in city streets wet from the light evening rain. Blood & Snow is the sound of a sentient comet cycling through eons of time and space, gradually wearing away, reducing in mass, till all that's left is empty space. A beautiful Cluster-like instrumental. The Drowning of St. Christopher is a soft industrial slide show purring like a kitten or a small organic motor, delicate guitar filigree glint in the twilight. Glen Johnson starts to speak, it's a road trip, we're in his random thoughts, there's poetry in this. Quiet unhinging travel music with velvet gloves, spinning yarns in the dark, and the hotel rooms are all haunted, uprooted, lost and found.