So this post took me A LONG TIME to write. Why you may ask? Well I’ll tell ya… A few weeks back I wrote about Sean Wright. I talked about his Album-A-Month project and I only briefly mentioned his 26th album in 26 months “The Calling”, and believe it or not that post gave this blog legs of its own. It generated more hits than any other post I have written. Don’t think I am after hits because that is not my goal but more hits means more people are seeing the other posts and hopefully supporting other Indie Bands as well as Sean. But Going back and realizing that I never gave the album a review…I knew I had to come back to it, and review the album.
The Calling is album number 26 in as many months by Indie artist Sean Wright (He is now done with his 27th and #28 should be here in July). The Calling Starts off DARK… and I am not talking merely about using the low end of the acoustic range to give tracks an ominous feel, but the lyrics are from a place I wouldn’t want to visit. Here is what I mean. The Calling is the title track and it deals directly with a life changing event. You can hear sounds of water throughout the whole track, which eludes to how we are drawn to water, and the power that something we take for granted has over us.
The song Trust is a corner stone for the album and for this process as it signifies the beginning of new songwriting partnerships. Trust features the writings by poet, singer songwriter Reine Amodeo. The track “Could I Be a Dream” deals with some things that I often think about, which is “What if I wake up one morning and everything I know is gone?” or “What if everything I know is just a dream?”. Could I Be a Dream has a beautifully moving harmony and the chorus is one that will get stuck in your head and you wont mind.
The latter part of the album sheds some of the darkness while keeping the lyrical intensity going. This album is impresses me on many different levels and every time I listen to it I am more impressed with its quality, its skill, and where it came from.
In June 2009 Sean Release Album #27 in 27 months, it is Called Beautiful Blue. Please Check it out HERE
To get The Calling Visit Sean’s Site or Jamendo.
Once again all of Sean’s 27 albums are licensed for free under the Creative Commons License.