Bloom
Bill Laurance & the Untold Orchestra
There’s a pop sensibility to the arrangements and a keen rhythmic drive from the strings. Hugely enjoyable.
Bloom
Bill Laurance & the Untold Orchestra
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There’s a pop sensibility to the arrangements and a keen rhythmic drive from the strings. Hugely enjoyable.
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A series of dark, warm string chords opens the curtain on a vista of spaciousness and great sonic depth. Soon after, an intense rhythm develops, classically light and tightly grooving at the same time. A crystalline piano melody develops over everything, leading into an imaginative, hypnotically intensifying improvisation.
Bloom sees 5-time Grammy-winning composer and pianist Bill Laurance once more expanding his sonic palette. He has returned to his classical roots, working with arranger Josh Poole and 18 string players from Manchester’s Untold Orchestra to produce an album on a convincingly epic scale. Conceptually, Laurance says the record was largely inspired by his child’s capacity to imagine and create other worlds: “Every decision we take can be traced back to our capacity to imagine, the only limits on what we can achieve are the scale of our dreams. My child’s ability to pull back the curtain of reality and to create a fantasy world ignited all kinds of possibilities for me, and that is what ultimately led to this music.”
Combining Laurance’s classical sensibilities with jazz, pop grooves, and powerful orchestral synchronicity, Bloom runs the gamut of emotions and moods. Whether it’s flowing dreamscapes or dramatic crescendos, listeners are taken to exactly where they want to be, without ever veering off into the predictable.
Bill Laurance / piano, fender rhodes mk8, osmose expressive, prophet 6
Rory Storm / conductor
The Untold Orchestra
Contents and tracklist
- Bill Laurance (piano), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes), The Untold Orchestra
- Rory Storm
- Bill Laurance (piano), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes), The Untold Orchestra
- Rory Storm
- Bill Laurance (piano), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes), The Untold Orchestra
- Rory Storm
- Bill Laurance (piano), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes), The Untold Orchestra
- Rory Storm
- Bill Laurance (piano), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes), The Untold Orchestra
- Rory Storm
- Bill Laurance (piano), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes), The Untold Orchestra
- Rory Storm
- Bill Laurance (piano), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes), The Untold Orchestra
- Rory Storm
- Bill Laurance (piano), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes), The Untold Orchestra
- Rory Storm
- Bill Laurance (piano), Bill Laurance (fender rhodes), The Untold Orchestra
- Rory Storm
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Awards and reviews
July 2024
There’s a pop sensibility to the arrangements and a keen rhythmic drive from the strings. Hugely enjoyable.
May 2024
Drum-less yet grooving heavily throughout, Laurance’s lithe piano solos break things up and retain an improvised edge on what is a highly composed, expertly controlled suite with melody and groove teased out to an epic scale. Cinematic yet intimately detailed (and beautifully recorded and mixed), Bloom triumphs as a soundtrack to an invisible film – where it sits stylistically is in the ear of the beholder.
