ASHES ARE BURNING

It's the time of fantastic moves, of beautiful music, of masterful thought and of everlasting. After a long period of what I like to consider "style accomodation", Renaissance wake up to a form that will shine of brilliancy and of intelligent artistic manifest, everything in a most keen period of them all. The mid '70 resemble by definition a moment of intensive geniality illustration and Renaissance don't stay out of the picture at all, reaching a concept and an ideal of entity climax that will not have a similar reflection in any other moment of history (their history, that is). Three albums define the best of Renaissance, three albums raise them to an infinite state of excellence. Ashes Are Burning isn't an opener of this, but a direct hit of brilliant gesture and sharp master-effects, being of such a beauty, it's hard to comprehend it in its entire. Considering this the most prolific album of Renaissance wouldn't be unjustified, as it tends indeed to have the greatest resonance and the most compact shape (or at least I hear it always as the best reference to Renaissance; prefectly okay). Personally it's my second favourite, nonetheless a masterpiece dedication and a fabulous thing to experience.

In a large scheme of color, elements, motives and impression essences, Ashes Are Burning is a statement of complexity, of great understanding towards a most perfectioned flavor and approach, a dynamic interpretation that is appealing, intriguing and of great sense, of refinement in which valences are a matter of art and of over-confident excelation. The propositions are conserved and reflected in a most mature way, the sensations that compose music are brought to a point of splendid artifacts, the ideas that concentrate on the fluid nucleus of the album are bright, clean, excellent, plurimotivated. Hort sentenced, the feeling is perfect, the mood is ecstatic, the achievement is 100% definitory, the quality is undiminishing, the significance is unneglectable. Impressive, magnificent and pulsating. The character of Ashes Are Burning rely on a charisma in pure shape, on symbols of music, lyrics, breathes and emotions, on elevated dynamics and serious capitalization of the speech, and in a final imaginative stand, on a very boemic and authentic "Renaissance"-like essence. It's a great thing ot experience this musical speech, it's a marvelous reaction to observe and to witness the event of a climax and of a concept expansion rarely acknowledged. A sophisticated look into a music that in the end speaks towards the soul's attention and the soul's enlightement. Up to such a motivated definition, things just can't get better. Pragmatic, yet very fluent and without the oversaturation of a detail branch focus. What more can I say, perfection to the real meaning of the world. The interpretations are two: the factual state and the listener's knowledge. Be illuminated and be dazzled, for this is the true power. That, besides a rendered perspective. A vocal-instrumental combination holds the price of the fluent speech up and running. In the end, what's left of everything is an introspective emotion and an eliberation into the vast space of a matter dream. In tone of real and reachable, the creation excites the undefined and the undesciphered as well. In tone of didact or even academic expression, the guided touch gives euphoria a dimension and to sensation a whole new understanding point. The power of Ashes Are Burning consists of pure music, of values, of principles and of passion. The reflection is a forte, pico bello, musique de lumiere.

Though the concentrated points of the albums are the two "epics", try to savour the mid-part as well, for the power's tendancy is to equally challenge the admiration. Perhaps not a "Black Flame"-like intensity in each and every one of them, still the short style(d) tracks aren't just short style(d), but offer an imense view towards the language of the album. Back to the two "longs", I am more fond of Can You Understand thatn to the title track, due to a charisma melody that soothenes me. Yet the title reference is the most profound composition, presenting a clear "climax of the climax", through intensity, through unearthly dynamics and through the charm that seizes the breath. Repeating what I've already said in the general view, now to the details of the intimate exposure, the speech is pluri-emotive. The message carries different signals. Whether it's the piece, or the changing scenery within a piece, or the elements within the scenery.Thus Ashes Are Burning conceives an entire palette. From dark to slow and to slippery, from glowing to secluded, from easy to complex, from cheerful to boemic and melancolic, from diffuze (positive thinking, of course) to crystal clear, from moving waves to burning air.From definition to explanations that comes aberant. For ultimately, and I repeat myself one more time, music counts.

Sublime.