After several spins of Judy Dyble’s latest offering, Flow and Change, I
know that I like the album, her style, the narrative behind each song, but as a
whole?
Dyble’s voice is without a doubt very beautiful. She manages to bend each
verse with the flow of the music, manifest the emotions of each song, and her
feminine voice manages to change up between seeming very fragile and creating a
sense of strength in contrast to the narrative of the song.
My first go with the album I really didn’t know what to think. I thought it
sounded kind of operatic, far to contemporary for my liking, but as the album
pressed on into the darker sounding Beautiful Child (Freya’s Song), I was drawn
in.
The entire mood of that particular track was first caught my attention to
the narrative storytelling quality that Dyble puts into every song. Sure, her
voice is great and the music is very enveloping, but as a whole, songs seem to
take on lives of their own, Dyble being a simple medium translating story with
the graceful ability and skill that allows her voice to conjure up the emotional
levels of the goings on in each song. Beautiful Child simply caused a chain
reaction that allowed me to truly listen and invest myself in the album.
Will this be an album that I find myself listening to week by week? I’ll be
honest, probably not. While it is a great album, it seems to serve its purpose
in those seemingly right state of mind occasions. Relaxing with it is an
obvious. Maybe even finding a certain kind of comfort with Dyble’s voice and
storytelling, but as an album that snags your attention for weeks, it’s just not
that. Still, I highly suggest to anyone willing to brave stepping off the beaten
path.
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