Time: 73:12
Size: 167.6 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2006
Art: Front
[ 6:13] 1. Seek And You Will Find
[ 9:57] 2. Looking Up
[ 4:18] 3. Let Me Off!
[ 4:46] 4. Somalia
[ 9:26] 5. Away With You
[ 7:53] 6. Mass For Almassy Prelude Viii
[ 8:13] 7. Lost
[11:04] 8. A Gift
[11:20] 9. I' Ll Be Seeing You
Double Bass – Gary Holgate; Drums – Hamish Stuart; Piano – Bill Risby.
Few listeners will not succumb to the spell cast by the fragile beauty of Bill Risby's 'Seek And You Will Find'. Risby weights each note with the assurance of an expert concert pianist performing a Satie Gymnopedie, yet loads them with such a tangible sense of vulnerability that the emotional power stops you dead. We hear too little of Risby in such contexts. it was worth the 11 year wait since his lovely debut, STORIES, for this one, which, after that solo opening, is a collaboration with bassist Gary Holgate and drummer Hamish Stuart. The gentle tentative beginning to 'Looking Up' heralds a slow motion, building intensity over the next 10 minutes into something like a full blown spiritual. The upward energy slant continues with the abrupt drum punctuations and racing bass riff of 'Let Me Off!!' A rather folorn ballad called 'Lost' flutters into freer territory in mid-stream. Risby leaves us with the Celtic melancholy of 'I'll Be Seeing You'. If nothing quite rises to the heights of the first piece, this is still one fine album. ~John Shand
Few listeners will not succumb to the spell cast by the fragile beauty of Bill Risby's 'Seek And You Will Find'. Risby weights each note with the assurance of an expert concert pianist performing a Satie Gymnopedie, yet loads them with such a tangible sense of vulnerability that the emotional power stops you dead. We hear too little of Risby in such contexts. it was worth the 11 year wait since his lovely debut, STORIES, for this one, which, after that solo opening, is a collaboration with bassist Gary Holgate and drummer Hamish Stuart. The gentle tentative beginning to 'Looking Up' heralds a slow motion, building intensity over the next 10 minutes into something like a full blown spiritual. The upward energy slant continues with the abrupt drum punctuations and racing bass riff of 'Let Me Off!!' A rather folorn ballad called 'Lost' flutters into freer territory in mid-stream. Risby leaves us with the Celtic melancholy of 'I'll Be Seeing You'. If nothing quite rises to the heights of the first piece, this is still one fine album. ~John Shand
Looking Up