Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are forever being reminded that the world does not revolve around us, and yet in the same breath we are advised that if we do nothing, if we don’t believe in ourselves then what was the point in existence, where does the balance begin that those who wish to see people subservient to the whims of static corrosion and those that urge others to strike out and achieve all that they can, and where does it ultimately lead?

‘Tread gently upon this Earth’, so the words of wisdom are spoken, but we should also remember to ‘Rage’, as Dylan Thomas implored, ‘against the dying of the light’; it is to this balance where The Still Point Of The Turning World may be found, and in the moment of clarity we are exposed to the place where the highest mountain of achievement can dominate the thoughts and lead to their own peaceful summit, the place where it all continues spinning below, but where you reach down and pull people up from.

It is in the beauty of renowned and critically acclaimed pianist Paul Edis that the sound of the stillness has a voice, for when the listener keeps the purity of the air in mind, what they are treated to in this stunning recording is one of sheer precision and the effect of fertile music belief.

Through tracks such as Nobody Else But Me, Detour Behind, Cluster Fluster, Will-O’-The-Wisp and Hypnotised, The Still Point Of The Turning World is the realisation that despite the cacophony of sound created by the indescribable and bleating of those without empathy and personality, we are our own still point to which we either defend the industrious art, or in which we allow others to gravitate around; that being still does not imply we are static, motionless in our output, but that we are the point of peace, the centre of harmony.

Tread gently…but rage as though the Sun resides within, but be mindful of remaining at one with peace, for in a turning world, art, expression and the melody of the soul are what keeps in in balance; a performance detailed and lovingly explored by Paul Edis.

Ian D. Hall