CD: KEVIN KENDLE - Pure Dreaming

By Paula Thompson View Profile
This CD is an amazing experience so I can only hope my review does it justice and has you rushing out to order it. I have found it has become quite a favourite for escaping the daily stresses and strains. While listening to this music - work does not exist but for in the deepest darkest recesses of your mind, the children haven't driven you out of your mind since coming in from school, they are a thousand miles away in a foreign land of golden silence. Making dinner has not been a chore you really didn't want to plan and face preparing this evening, all that exists is this wonderful sense of being at one with the universe in your own glorious company. Wow!

'Skylark' is exceptionally thought provoking, yet still brings the listener into a slow train of thought and immense relaxation. It begins with birdsong and leads to piano. I began to visualise a cool stream and imagined being in a place of beauty and peace, this wasn't an intentional visualisation, I seemed to drift with the flow of the music and let it lead me to where it wanted me to be. Each time I have listened to this track, I have fallen into a deep sleep and awoken refreshed with a sense of complete ease of mind body and soul.

'The Sundial' is made of guitar music and piano following in, again, the peace I felt listening to this caused me to become exceptionally relaxed.

'Gliders' is slightly less calming, as you cant help but visualise flying above the fields and mountains, surrounded by the beauty of the earth and eagles in flight with you. The instruments on this track consist of keyboard flute and guitar.

'Evening Star' has a feeling......more