Sonic Skills

This Simply Vinyl version blows away the original pressing. More sonic details all over the place.

The Locke Consort musicians are virtuoso soloists and first-rate ensemble players, and all of their skills are challenged in these highly developed, often florid works that are recorded here for the first time–and deservedly so. Audiophile devotees, here's another recording to add to your demonstration-disc shelf; for the rest of you who just love really fine music recorded really well, if you don't already have a demonstration-disc shelf, you'll probably want to make room for one when you hear this.

Bloom, the ACT debut of pianist and composer Bill Laurance as leader, marks the transition from the smallest possible form of musical interaction to a large-scale, broadband format: Following the internationally acclaimed ACT release Where You Wish You Were in duo with multi-instrumentalist and Snarky Puppy bandmate Michael League, Laurance now teams up with Manchester-based 18-piece string orchestra The Untold Orchestra and creates a work of convincingly epic pro-portions. Combining Bill Laurance’s classical sensibilities with jazz, pop grooves, and powerful orchestral synchronicity, Bloom runs the gamut of emotions and moods.

The Space Between Worlds is a concept album that follows the story of a huntress who travels the infinite metaphysical worlds brought into being by the dreams of humankind. In these realms, she encounters a dream eater which threatens to unravel the fabric of reality by devouring dreamers and destroying the dimensional gateways.