Pop, rock, latin, and jazz all melt together with synthesizer sounds in songs that capture emotions and provoke thought.

9 MP3 Songs
POP: New Wave, POP: with Electronic Production



Details:
Midlife Crisis is composer/keyboardist/synthesizer player David DeGrand's look at life from the middle of it, and contains songs about the things that matter: communication, exuberance, passion, love, loss, grief, truth, and beauty (not necessarily in that order!). He is assisted in vocals by Rob Adams and Lisa Brumby. The instruments are all synthesizers, and the sounds of the songs are as diverse as the thoughts of the lyrics, from funky joy rides to dark tearful wails. The rhythms are largely those of pop, rock, and latin music. The synthesizers are programmed as part of each composition, and range from nearly acoustic sounds to electric guitar-like or wilder electronic sounds. Two instrumentals are on the CD, each capturing a mood set up by the previous vocal song. "Threnody for Hank" explores the boundaries of what can be done with synthesizers, and can hardly be defined with traditional music concepts. The other, a version of Benny Golson's "I Remember Clifford", follows the philosophical "Paradise is Nothing But a State of Mind", and is nothing but consonance, softness and beauty.