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On his concept album “Little Things” (which is about uncovering and celebrating the wonderful little details that exist below the surface of our normal routines) Michael Allison has come up with a range of sounds and compositions that mix contemporary with Eastern, African, sometimes Urban ones. There’s still some electronics involved in the darker-shaded music, but the instrumental outcome take the next step in what was already heard on “Falling Light”: guitar (loops), pulsing strings and groove, percussion-driven compositions with slight jazzy angels and lots of World-music influences. At the same time, Mr Allison has slightly harkened back to the atmospheric, ethereal style from his early days occasionally -which I still consider his best-. In the end though I wasn’t grabbed that much by the overall result, despite some delightful ethereal and intimate traces as heard on “Unusual Thursday”, the dreamy “Soft Portrait”, “Nocturne”, “Fields” or the sedate title track. |
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