{"id":2535,"date":"2021-11-21T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T11:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T11:25:27","slug":"alex-pesters-lovers-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/alex-pesters-lovers-leap\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pester’s Lover’s Leap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alex Pester 2021 \u00a9 Alex Pester<\/p><\/div>\n

I love listening to new music. But not usually for very long. I\u2019m always in the writing, recording, producing or artwork stage of my own music, so more often than not, new music is a distraction that pulls focus. But, like any other recording artholes you might meet, I am always seeking to hear something that makes me curious in music again, something I didn\u2019t think of \u2013 a melody, a chord sequence, a story, an instrument or an innovative approach. I hear a lot of things that do not turn me on, but when I do hear something, I revel in the fascination and like to tell everyone else about it.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Alex Pester\u2019s new album \u2018Lover\u2019s Leap\u2019<\/a> is such a fascination.<\/em><\/h3>\n

At only 20 years old, it\u2019s not only a f*** off accomplishment to have made three albums already, but more importantly, he makes any clue that he\u2019s using technology to record it completely invisible. His is music for people who want to hear music that could only have come from a beating heart, a raw imagination full of ideas and a deep relationship with sound. There\u2019s a good reason I, and many others continue to listen back to albums recorded in the late 60s. Whether it\u2019s Floyd, Hendrix or Joni Mitchell, it\u2019s quite clear that whatever the intention of those artists was at the time, the tools they were using to produce their soul intention is precisely that: they used the tools. And the tools never really used them. Alex\u2019s latest album works in exactly the same way, and I for one have learnt something from his beautifully human and sincere approach to sculpting songs. It\u2019s almost as if each track you hear hasn\u2019t been filtered, at any stage, by the conventions or limitations of modern technology. Not being able to count along from 1 to 4 in the rhythmic structure of any song is also a good sign that the composer is faithfully following their own reaction to the musical ideas that are born in their head, and not fit it into a tired box of conventions. Lennon did this a lot, as did Zappa and later, David Byrne. This is not music by numbers. It\u2019s making musical ideas manifest as accurately in our ears as they did between the ears of the creator when inspiration struck.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n