Echoes of Light and Shadow

Echoes of Light and Shadow

This album shows a more restrained and contemplative side to David Arkenstone, exemplified by the melancholy "No Rain, No Rainbows," the dreamy "Entropy," and the optimistic "Lightdance." <P>Echoes of Light and Shadow has an organic sound comparable to Arkenstone's epic Sketches from an American Journey. As David put it, "There are echoes between music and art, grand intersections where painters ply their canvases and composers shepherd their notes ... There's a natural balance between day and night, as if nothing can really exist, can have its own identity, without its opposite ... Here are songs of the dark treasures of the abyss, soaring up to the sheer cliffs of bliss. Because perhaps, if musically, we face the darkness, then also might we hear the light."