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Jeremy - Glow in the Dark ($12.99)
American Jeremy Morris, known for his Pilgrim’s Journey and Celestial City CDs on the Kinesis label, is a busy musician who also produces vocal power pop, psychedelic rock, synth music, solo piano and acoustic guitar CDs, which means one has to be patient waiting for his progressive CDs. Glow in the Dark (2008) is one of his instrumental progressive works. Jeremy handles most of the instruments himself. Guillermo Cazenave, known for his collaborations with Anthony Phillips, guests on guitar on one track, while other musicians contribute drums, cello and violin. “Ambient progressive” might be the best term for the music here. The music tends to ebb and flow peacefully, with many short musical ideas strung together without an overarching structure. Jeremy’s trademark electric guitar leads are blended with analog synths, grand piano, acoustic guitar, bass and low-key drums. Jeremy’s electric guitar tone and style are his own, a melodic, lyrical style that is what might result from cross-pollinating Steve Hackett and Brian May (Queen). The music has a slight spaciness, an influence of Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream perhaps, but this is not an electronics album, and the music is warm and symphonic. Jeremy’s Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett influences are usually evident. The final 9-minute track Endless River feels like a continuation of Pilgrim’s Journey.
Jeremy - Home in the Sky ($12.99)This 2005 CD consists of instrumental songs performed exclusively on grand piano, similar to his 2003 album Fruit Tree. It’s what you might get if you combined George Winston’s December with the keyboard works of Tony Banks and Anthony Phillips. Jeremy again revisits a theme or two from his Celestial City album.
Jeremy - Still Waters ($12.99)This 2004 CD consists of instrumental songs performed exclusively on 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars and should be considered a companion piece to 2003’s Fruit Tree. Still Waters is for fans of the acoustic work of Anthony Phillips, Gordon Giltrap, Steve Howe, Leo Kottke, and Steve Hackett. As with Fruit Tree, Jeremy revisits themes from his Celestial City and Pilgrim’s Journey albums (which is where newcomers should start), and both Fruit Tree and Still Waters are reflective, peaceful albums. Here are mp3 samples of the songs Hour Glass, Barefoot, Over the Hills, and Still Waters.
Jeremy - Fruit Tree ($12.99)This 2003 CD consists of instrumental songs performed exclusively on grand piano and should be considered a companion piece to 2004’s Still Waters. Fruit Tree is what you might get if you combined George Winston’s December with the keyboard works of Tony Banks and Anthony Phillips. Jeremy revisits themes from his Celestial City album, so a few of the melodies may already sound familiar. Here are mp3 samples of the songs Fruit Tree, Awakening, and Open Door.
Jeremy - Salt the Planet ($12.99)Jeremy’s 1999 album for the now-defunct Moonchild label is a bit of a departure from his Kinesis albums in that there is very little guitar on Salt the Planet, though there is a lot of guitar synth. This is Jeremy’s ‘heavy-synth’ style, which can be heard in spots on his Kinesis albums, and is a style he does very well. This is structured, melodic, rhythmic, rock-based synth music, not too far from the power-synth styles of Mark Shreeve and Andy Pickford.
