Album Of The Week

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Published 2020-07-28 06:00

“Parker Gray is the name of a musical project by synthesizer and keyboard player Harvey Jones and singer songwriter, producer and multi instrumentalist Peter Gallway, probably known from his solo albums and his collaboration with Annie Gallup in Hat Check Girl. On this album, ‘Luminous Darkness’, the 2 artists have put 11 poems from the book collection ‘Big Mercy’ by Peter Gallway to sometimes very experimental and mysterious sounding music.“

- Valére Sampermans / Rootstime -

"This is very much one for a niche market and best soaked in, seated and relaxed in dim, but warm lit, solitude, shuttered away from the static of the world, as the waves of sound and the melancholic intimacy of Gallway's voice weaves through those emotional and mental fibres."

- Mike Davies / Fatea Magazine -

"Parker Gray is the collaboration between singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist, engineer and producer Peter Gallway, and keyboardist, synthesist, producer and composer Harvey Jones. It sprang from Gallway’s desire to expand his work into the realm of atmospheric and emotional landscapes and who better to help create this vision than his friend Harvey Jones, who has performed on recordings with Robert Fripp, Sting, Paul Buchanen, Jerry Marotta, Tony Levin and Carla Bley. The spoken element of these recordings derives from the poetry collection, 'Big Mercy', by Peter Gallway on Gallway Bay Press.

- Kenneth Bremer / Blue Desert -

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