Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Ron Spielman Trio - ELECTRIC TALES (Groundsound 2012)

Music is always special when it offers a room for each of us to enter where we unexpectedly find things that we didn’t realise we were looking for.

It is exactly this type of magical musical moment that the
 Ron Spielman Trio devotes itself to. But what do I mean by « trio » ? This band is a potent, boundery-pushing, majestic rock machine, ripened through countless live gigs and thickly woven together into a very sexy sound. This is rock music for people who have grown up and become adult, without really wanting to. The effect is the same, touching and engagingly authentic but the quality of the music has thickened into a wisdom of sound that incorporates and distils experience, musical and otherwise. Ron Spielman combines in his world-class songs the fragility of the singer-songwriter with the directness and playfulness of rock. The twelve songs from the new (all-original material) album «  Electric Tales « are drawn from life and seemingly  so real that to distance oneself is impossible as the listener is pulled into a parallel world where, surprisingly, one feels at home from the very first note. This is the music that Spielman /Greb /Maclean are currently making.

This album is an increasingly rare example of a truly original work in rock music. Thanks to the trios power, brilliant craftmanship and precision, even the ballads make the listener hover inches above the ground.
Is there such a thing as release through music ?
You bet there is !

Ron Spielman Trio