Album Review: The Lonely Sailor from James Fernando
Album: The Lonely Sailor Artist: James Fernando Label: Self-Released Website: www.jamesfernando.com Pianist James Fernando tells a personal story on his solo debut recording The Lonely Sailor . As listeners course through the recording, they discover a lone artist who embarks on a journey of personal growth. At the start, the tracks illuminate melodic passages that are purely acoustic. However, as the tracks progress, the music turns more sci-fi-like and electronically textured, exploring unknown territory as the subject of the story searches for what Fernando tells in the liner notes "for a better place." Starting off the recording, the title track and "Untold" are composed chiefly of classical paradigms and dramatic surges as though taken from the notebooks of such romantic pianists as Johannes Brahms or Franz Schubert. Moving on, "The Journey Within" is a macabre piece interceded by sprinkles of trickling notes propped by a noir landscape....