Geoffrey Gordon Releases A Gorgeous Set of Songs

A set of beautifully cinematic pieces from Geoffrey Gordon are compiled onto a new release that absolutely exemplifies how mood and tension are built through instrumental music.

Fumee is a contemporary classical release, done with a full orchestra that delivers such lush soundscapes and approaches that it's very easy to get engulfed by everything.

"Gotham News" opens up the record, and this is a piece that's almost 14 minutes long and definitely gives you depth in those intensity levels.

Strings bend and wind, giving you the essence of the most climactic or surprising reveals of any horror film you've watched.

This piece is reflective of a painting by the same name created in 1955.

The whole record gives you elements like this but each piece of music has a life of itself.

"Premiere Raphsodie" displays heavily theatrical elements, wind instruments along with the strings, and it has this beautiful forward moving flow to it along with beautiful melodies that bounce back and forth between each other, giving the track several themes at once.

There are three pieces that are standalone, and then another four that are built together in a series called "Creavit Deus Hominem".

The first piece features a lot of clarinet, and the performance is unbelievable.

All of these pieces of music connect in different ways, but the entire record is a must here. Listening to the full release all the way through from start to finish really gives you a rounded feel and can take you for quite a series of musical escapes and journeys.

Some of the pieces feel introspective and again, really do rise and fall in intensity levels throughout their courses.

The Radom Chamber Orchestra performing the first track, "Gotham News" really pinpoints the emotion and tension delivered throughout the piece.

The following two pieces are performed by Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and the performances feel riddled with life.

The final series of pieces is by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, who also do an outstanding job of displaying the compositions with grace, elegance, and a beautifully characteristic approach that sticks with you.

Geoffrey is a composer who loves to focus on the melodic end of things. Choices of instrumentation and texture are always a huge part of everything, but it's the melodic aspect that really reaches out and grabs at you.

The pieces let your mind drift and paint pictures in your head as they unfold at times.

There are certain elements of these pieces of work that feel not only intriguing but intelligent or complex, but it's the emotional backbone that sticks the most.

It's all part of the fun of taking these musical journeys and seeing what they do for you.

The way the album is broken up works perfectly, and the visual aspect of how each piece connects is gorgeous. Each composition transforms visual art into music.

This is such a wonderful idea, and I think it takes a special kind of mind to be able to even contemplate how that would work, let alone bring everything to fruition the way Geoffrey does.

This is a record that should be listened to with headphones on to really soak in all of the beauty it has to offer, along with those moments of tension, elegance, color, and transformation.

Don't miss this one, because it's something that has a way of staying with you long after it's over.

Take a deep dive into this record now and see what it does for you.

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