Ralston Van Der Schyff is a composer and pianist. The artist makes music like feelings flow. In that pace, with that intricacy, and through all the layers. There is so much artistic articulation in his work that even without lyrics, the emotion and the theme reaches the listener. His latest release is ‘A Doll’s Ballet’, a ballet number, composed to elicit an elegant, smooth, and flowing performance. He goes into frames of purity, contemplation, and imagination, so distinctive that it stands out from human spaces. There is also a solemness underlining the performance, a straight plane that it keeps repeating and reinforcing.
When you think about musical compositions like this, your mind first locates the feeling before it arrives at the theme. But with Ralston’s writing, each sphere seems to influence the other, feeding and growing into each other’s narratives. Until finally in the end, they unite to form a blooming circle. And through the floating pieces of melody, the dallying rhythms, and mellow acoustics, you can feel it coming, almost hear the culmination breathing.
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