Album Review: Day Dream from Alan Pasqua
Album: Day Dream Artist: Alan Pasqua Label: Self-Released Website: https://alanpasqua.com A Steinway Piano artist, Alan Pasqua's music flows with the ease of rolling waters cutting a stream along a rock's edge. The delicacy of his playing on his latest CD Day Dream can quiet squawking doves, calm a hungry mountain lion, or soothe a savage beast. The willowy resonance of his keys will put audiences in a trance, eager to be swept up by the lulling temperament of his performance. Day Dream is an appropriate title for the idyllic movements in his phrases. Tracks like "Old Cape Cod" and "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning/Smile" are laden with caressing strokes in Pasqua's keys, seguing into the brooding petting of the keys along "Polka Dots And Moonbeams," pervading a sense of loneliness and loss in the atmosphere. Conversely, the twinkling notes of Pasqua's keys on "Upper Manhattan Medical Group" radiate an elation that...