Creative conceptualisation and the combined talents of a composer and string quartet fully consumed by the process. Those are the facts, but the music is where the experience really speaks for itself.
Award-winning Australian composer Dale Cornelius has created a beautifully immersive and deeply evocative, thought-provoking instrumental journey, with the haunting delicacy, depth, uncertainty and occasional euphoric power of What is Carried, What is Left Behind?
As an introduction to this format, In This Moment, What Matters Most? pairs a single looping riff with an extensive string arrangement, which alters, through wave-like rises and falls, the intensity of the track, from spacious and eerie to boldly evocative, beautiful, and energising.
It’s a cinematic style of composition, and at five minutes in full, it provides something that much of modern music fails to even consider – an experience that lingers in the mind, perhaps without a label; unique to each who steps in.
Built around real-world sounds and samples from Dale’s traveling, memories, and family life alike, this album is a sonic fusion of strings and synths that’s wholly enveloping, and which softly encourages you to stop the urgency of daily life to simply exist for a while; and listen, and feel.
The title-track, What is Carried, What is Left Behind? is suddenly heart-breaking as it follows the intensity of the opener, and this meandering emotional rollercoaster continues to hold you captive, throughout six original compositions that are both creatively eclectic and profoundly, refreshingly human.
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