The Lonely Bell - The Absent Years
Silhouettes of trees crisply dancing with tiny movements before the skies eternally changing canvass. So many outfits they wear, sparsely full with brownish hues, skeleton fingers waving before swirling grey clouds, filling with the most indescribable shade of green, lush and saturated in relaxed summer humidity, and then exploding with all the vibrant colors they can muster. After listening to The Absent Years many times, the best description for me would be the changing pageantry of the trees around us. On the second track from this composition, "Life Without Love" begins the change of beauty. From ethereal wind swept drone to contemplative strings, a lengthy float changes just inside of the second selection. A natural cyclic transition continuing until the track "I Want To Tell You Everything", the fourth selection. Here, the advent of thought to unimaginable length of time trees have been on this earth verse humans being sustained by them... The most minimal and