In times of digital overload and heavily processed, even automatically generated music taking control of the mainstream, streaming platforms and social media, supporting live musicianship and organic composition is crucial.
Keeping music live, appreciating talent and work ethic from the arts, is essential, both culturally and in terms of everything from future experiences and shared learning, to human emotional depth and connection.
On that note, we draw focus to an artist whose music speaks for itself.
Original cinematic rock instrumentals from a UK guitarist and composer noting a subtle blend of influences amidst the likes of Gary Moore and Santana. Michael Alan is set to release his second studio album at the end of October, and it’s a deeply moving, impressively skilful and often euphoric, organic instrumental project, that’s a dream to lose yourself within.
Discipline was once the deciding factor between the musicians who made it to the stages and those who simply dreamed. That seems to have changed with the rise of automatic music generation, but my belief (and hope) is that it’s merely a blip on the cultural and historical landscape.
Michael Alan is a pristinely disciplined and experienced guitarist and composer, whose original music effectively brings both passion and precision to the scene. His sound combines elements of hard rock and blues, with a cinematic and fiercely atmospheric sense of sweeping emotional sentiment and story, which gifts the sound a profoundly authentic mood – something impossible to copy or recreate in quite the same way.
Michael’s guitar is his voice, and his music turns pure melody, tonality, dynamics and emotions, into blissful audio ventures. The universal language connects for its freedom from lyrics, the expressions raining down with varying sentimental directions, from the uplifting and energising, to the heart-breaking and provocative, and the new album is all of this at once.
Noting singles like the stunning In The Name Of , the deeply moving Crimson Sky, and the lightly fingerpicked then passionately distorted and cascading Broken already available to stream, the diversity and ability of the sound is unquestionable, and the upcoming album is already one that promises pure guitar energy and heart of a timeless and honest nature.
Find all of Michael’s Alan’s original cinematic guitar compositions on Bandcamp. Visit Michael Alan‘s Website or follow him on TikTok & Instagram for regular updates.
