TheCapitalClinic

[Note: Detach Player on Tim Allen's Uploads on his film-scores in the making, while checking out this review and provide additional commentary below that would be helpful for TA and/or the rest of us listening to his compositions.]

TA, it's a pleasure just to detach the player and listen to your "film scores without the film" for easy listening, web-surfing, and key-board pecking [connecting with the evolving fuzz community] on a quiet Sunday [although The New Savannah probably has too much turmoil for these sedentary purposes].

So far, although I find merit in each piece, here are some random thoughts going through my head and my imagination as I listen:

1.) A Stroll in England makes me think of the opening scene of That Other Boleyn Girl - English country-side, kids playing, wild-grass and flowers - lilies, flutes, royals. You may have pre-conditioned my sensibilities with your title to this piece; but, hey, why not - it worked!

2.) Fables of Ambrosius should be tied into the story of Ambrosius Aurelianus - although perhaps the piece could use a bit more of the "fabulous" to live up to the title. I hear the horns tho' and think of tales of great deeds yet to come. This should be a "fabulous" movie when you and your [future] collaborators get around to it [see below].

3.) I like The Vineyard best as a "film score" when looking at the countryside image that accompanies the over-all collection [of your first uploads - and I hope there will be many more]. Your music would, indeed, go well with ongoing themes/stories of the imagination when viewed as well as heard with much pleasure.

4.) Skyward - this one makes one LOOK UP [again, with your pre-conditioning maybe, but who cares].

5.) As an ex-mariner, I enjoyed taking in The Cruel Sea, but couldn't quite make the connection with the "cruel" part of it - more like looking at the shimmering sea from a cliff-top.

6.) Lest We Forget - it's interesting and, to me, revealing that you give us no tangible visual clue for this one but, rather, a reminder not ever to stop remembering - leaving the rest to us.

7.) The New Savannah - too pulsating for Sunday morning, but I want to visit this place someday.

Over-all these pieces do put you in the "movie mode" - quite a good trick. Tell us more about what went through your mind when engaged in the creative process [but only if you wish or can recall - sometimes not an easy thing to do and, rather, I can accept that we could just let the pieces speak for themselves - but IMHO we do need more linkages in digital-space lest these works get lost in the existential confusion - to me, this is what this place of refuge is all about].

If you cannot yet find the connection with the "establishment" film producers, why not, in the meantime, just produce the film around your scores in collaboration with folks you meet here or elsewhere on the web? Anything is possible here if you have the energy and imagination to make it happen. This is a place for independent artists to maintain their independence and to sustain their creative spirit.

[NB: a note to readers of my reviews: the text of my reviews at this site may change from time to time. As I listen for futher nuances in a song or body of work, I keep modifying or adding to my thoughts, making my reviews an organic "moveable feast". Since Fuzz Artists are constantly evolving, as are our own perspectives, I think Fuzz reviews should not be frozen in time. It's time to extend the power of real-time, web-based music discovery, by making our reviews, "wiki-reviews."]