Varia Reviews Travelog
Varia takes a crack at music writing with my album, Travelog. Writing about music is a tricky thing; one needs a special vocabulary to speak clearly about music with other musicians, and once one has developed that one can’t use it very often because then the writing makes no sense to non-musicians. She manages the task rather well, in my opinion. Here’s a particularly good passage:
I feel a railroad rhythm building in You Are An. A lot of this track is constructed from slightly menacing layers of simple piano melodies that slide together. The intensity of the piece builds as railroad rhythm static sounds fade in and out, sometimes growing quite dominant. This track reminds me of a Hitchcock film. It’s somewhat slow paced but neither leisurely nor peaceful. It is beautiful but disquieting.
Varia’s been listening to bits and pieces of Travelog (and bits and pieces of the various songs as I play them on loop for hours) for well over a year now, so hearing her impressions as a listener rather than a supportive spouse are extra interesting to me.
