Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
All through the fire we search for the ones that can ease our soul, that will lift our spirits in times when the winter dark threatens to overwhelm us, to consume us; it is after all better to surrender to the flames of passion than to shiver in the cold embrace of the unloved.
More than a promise, a significant chapter in Liverpool’s overall music outlook, Rosenblume has been quietly returning to the venues and begun to thrill the crowds present with the words of new music to come, a thrill to hear such wonder from artist, and yet with Rosenblume it comes with an extra tingle, the sense of being allowed to open a present on Christmas Eve and finding that there is still a huge offering to come on New Year’s Day when you thought all the festivities had blown over.
It is a gift always worth celebrating, of appreciating, and as the music flowed around The Music Room inside the Philharmonic Hall structure, the building blocks of what is to come began to reignite a passion, the promise of the New Year to come enlarged and gorged upon by the possibilities open to the audiences of Liverpool and beyond.
It will always be an unusual feel to have a certain amount of songs within a set in which nobody in the crowd watching has had the distinctive pleasure of hearing, and yet the upside is that it sharpens the brain, the greatest tool at our disposal, our senses excited and quickened, and whilst you might not comprehend the meaning or poetry of the lyrics or know where the music might take you, you understand that what you are hearing, what you are feeling, is the rawness of a person’s soul being unleashed.
With a set that comprised songs such as All Through The Fire, All Through The Rain, It’ll Be Alright, Half Way There, the exceptional Darkness Before The Light and Knight In Shining Armour, Rosenblume and his fellow musicians on stage set the scene for the next great adventure, a quest which will be heartily welcomed soon.
A gift of a performance, Rosenblume is the present we all need.
Ian D. Hall