Simon Deeley
STRING RISE AZURE TRACES (2023)
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Rather than an over-arching theme the album has a hint of an immediately recognisable style. An infusion of Latin flavour threads through the album; with the Samba groove of 'So, Fly Azure Acrobat', and the gentle, easy, slow Latin of ' Song to the Condor', to the hint of Spanish music in 'On Echoes Andalucia'- both in the solos section and the Bolero like Coda. The other four tracks are examples of two of Simon's other writing styles; blues-infused-jazz-fusion and atmospheric, mood-setting film style. As he says, " I have always been moved by the expressive, lyrical guitar genre; where the guitarist plays an expressive, powerful melody or line against the backing of the rest of the band (heard a lot in electric blues and earlier rock music) and this is the central element of the opening track ' Theme of the Legends' with its strong, lyrical guitar melody". Simon's more cinematic writing style can be heard in 'Midnight Song' and 'Aurora's Dream Waltz', the former with its emotionally charged, yet somewhat restrained late-night mood and the latter creating a dreamy atmosphere depicting, perhaps, a wide-screen scene of the dancer tracing her movements across a moonlit landscape or, of course, across the background of the flued luminescent shapes of the Aurora Borealis (The Northern Lights) which was the original inspiration for the piece.
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Simon Deeley
INDIGO HORIZON (2021)
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Indigo Horizon (EP) consists of two songs written (music & lyrics) by composer and pianist Simon Deeley - Free Spirit and Blue Blues Horizon. 'Free Spirit' - a strong-grooving, blues-infused song, that paints a picture of that perfect day - the one we all look for - that, 'great day' as the song says. 'Blue Blues Horizon' - an expressive, emotive ballad that tells a story of loss, reflection and hope. A blues/gospel style track, with an element of Americana.
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Simon Deeley
AFAN'S DANCE (2020)
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The music recorded for Afan's Dance shows the full stylistic range of Simon Deeley's writing at this time: from powerful, driving Jazz-Fusion numbers to groove-driven, blues-infused tracks, and on through atmospheric film music style compositions, to reflective, evocative ballads.
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