carmina charm #2

Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony? 

- Leonardo DaVinci

It's harmony that your soul and mind embraces again when listening to music. As sound surrounds you, only some melodies firmly resonate with you, get an immediate emotional response - whilst their approach is a smooth and soft one, whilst they slowly, carefully but steadily cling to you, these melodies eventually grab you with an intensity and force that overwhelms, that fully absorbs and stirs. It's these very melodies that are in chime with your mind and soul, it's music that leaves an imprint on your being and mesmerizes ... music that charms. 

III. Higher Laws 

A Calmer Collision has already been - as an artistic outlet, as a broad experimental and creative place for Ryan McCambridge to return and retreat to whenever needed - vibrantly pulsating under the surface when the soulful singer and pensive songwriter was still with canadian grunge rockers Recovery Child. Heavy and impassioned rock anthems might lie in his past now, but having been Recovery Child's frontman for almost 8 years sure left its mark on Ryan's approach to and sense of music - his raspy vocals simply suit the rough and sonorous compositions the 4 piece rock outfit unleashed and released over the years, but it's with a smooth sensitivity, a soft and emotive timbre and a heartfelt vocal longing that Ryan too fits into a more jaunty yet poignant field of sound, which grandly shows now that he solely dedicates himself to his long installed solo project, A Calmer Collision. 

'Higher Laws' is testament to the fact that Ryan's heart still beats for music, that he has put the very same into realizing his musical visions with ardent dynamics, enticing catchy rhythms and deep-laid lyrics. Husky and expressive vocals, tense and feisty riffage, ponderous and orotund drum beats come together in chime and it becomes obvious that a higher law is at work indeed that governs the listeners' affection for the song: the might of both quality composing and recording, the might of elaborate and refined music making. That the audience yearns for more thus is a natural consequence, demanded by music terms ...

Standby time shouldn't last long though as Ryan himself has announced that after a year spent with writing, there's plenty to come:

'Higher Laws' is available for free download at
A Calmer Collision's website. Get it, play it, love it!

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IV. The Locker 

Releasing his debut EP 'The Man And The Monster' and winning 'Liverpool Music Awards Male Artist Of The Year' in 2012 ensured that Ali Ingle and his scenic compositions are on people's radar for good, deservedly. From the very beginning his music has charmed with a bracing ease in sound, with imaginative lyrics and a mellow nonetheless vibrant sonority of vocals and instrumentation, ab initio the singer/songwriter, who closely collaborates and is involved with the liverpool based music management company Tilt Shift Music, has shown honesty and heart as an artist and has thereby grown a loyal following. 

Listening to Ali Ingle's songs certainly comes close to watching a colourful, exciting and soul-stirring movie, as the audience is entranced by vivid and charmingly told narrations coated in heart-warming and haunting melodies.  

As an offspring of the liverpool songsmith's musings 'The Locker' is unclosed in all its suave compositional glory - with it Ali Ingle has unlocked his potential as a musician once more and presents a sweeping and atmospheric melodic arrangement with languorous facets, enriched by warm and raspy vocals, polished through picturesque and memorable lyrics. 

Charm Offensive, an inspiring and daring EDM virtuoso who combines perky and lucid electronic layers with dreamy yet dashing melodies in a satisfying and compelling manner, has remixed Ali Ingle's song 'The Locker' ... and the outcome is undoubtably an imposing one! 

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