Jack Van Zandt and Stacey Fraser Release "A Chaos of Light and Motion"

A new release from Jack Van Zandt brings together a series of gorgeous pieces of music composed by Jack himself and performed by a group of his favorite musicians, along with the amazing Stacey Frazer, who performs vocals.

The A Chaos of Light and Motion album is a series of intricate and beautiful pieces of music, composed with a set of lush instrumentations and bringing a wonderfully elegant approach to performance, composition, arrangement, and sound.

These pieces are fully orchestrated with everything from wind to string instruments and piano along with those amazingly intense and at times, haunting vocals from Stacey.

Each track takes you on a musical journey that whisks you away to a different place and each one of these songs has a very particular approach to mood although a lot of them feel very connective.

In a sense, this almost plays through like a concept album where songs interconnect with each other and the intensity levels are outstanding at times.

One of my favorite pieces on this record is one called " Dance Beyond Death" as it has a beautifully slow build to it and brings a lot of the gorgeous array of instrumentation together and layers, using those to have the song grow.

Stacey's vocals are bountiful and can really wash you away with those intensities but always have such an amazing layer of tonality to add to the already lush instrumentation that you are hearing.

This is a record comprised of nine pieces of music, and again, each one brings you to a different place. The track I just mentioned is almost 9 minutes long and within those 9 minutes, you are engulfed by the haunts, moods, and aesthetics that you are surrounded by.

I absolutely love music that can engulf you that way. You forget where you are and what you're doing and are pulled into this theatrical and cinematic universe where there's a lot of introspective and deeper level of thought process happening.

There's something about this record that feels extraordinarily existential, and I can't escape that feeling. This is part of what makes it also intense as well. It's not just about how things are performed but it's about the way it makes you feel inside when you listen to it.

This is all very perspective-driven music in its sentiment, so you pick up on that as you listen through the record.

Of course, the titles of these pieces of music helped push that sentiment as well.

This is an album that you listen to all the way through so you can really soak in all that it has to offer from its deepening value and sentiment to its swelling and breathing performances.

I found this record to be very beautiful and again, gracefully performed with such outstanding tonalities that mend and melt together seamlessly to create that atmosphere you get caught up in.

Listen to this one with headphones so you can really pick up on everything going on. There are a few surprises in there but really, it's a record that makes you think and makes you feel.

This is beautifully composed and speaks volumes for Jack Van Zandt who is already well known for his compositions and pieces he's worked on from concerts to multimedia, streaming, television, and film.

When you listen to this release, you'll see exactly why.

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