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Stephen Keech - I Never Left You

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Stephen Keech

Title:

I Never Left You

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Album

Released:

05 Jul 2019

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Stephen Keech, an American Producer/Engineer/Songwriter/Musician and ex-member of the band Haste the Day, has released 'I Never Left You', described as an "ambient instrumental album".

Stephen spent his early years as the vocalist and songwriter for Solid States Records band Haste the Day, and eventually settled down in East Nashville where he expanded on his passion for producing records and composing for film and TV. Working with Directors such as Cale Glendening, Ry Cox and Andy Reale, for companies like Spotify, Eureka, and Talbots, Stephen has pushed to create meaningful and interesting compositions that complement the visual context of each piece....
Read More Stephen Keech, an American Producer/Engineer/Songwriter/Musician and ex-member of the band Haste the Day, has released 'I Never Left You', described as an "ambient instrumental album".

Stephen spent his early years as the vocalist and songwriter for Solid States Records band Haste the Day, and eventually settled down in East Nashville where he expanded on his passion for producing records and composing for film and TV. Working with Directors such as Cale Glendening, Ry Cox and Andy Reale, for companies like Spotify, Eureka, and Talbots, Stephen has pushed to create meaningful and interesting compositions that complement the visual context of each piece.

In addition to composing for film, Stephen has produced and engineered works for artists such as Dead Talk (former As Cities Burn members), Motherfolk, Moseley, Bandit, and Behold the Brave, and continues to excel in pushing each project to its maximum potential by exploring the sonic landscape.

What an amazing album this is. Put this album on and sit, think, pray, praise, cry, smile. Put this album on when you are watching the beauty of God's world pass by. This is a real honest album of just music, and I got the same experience and feeling from an album full of great lyrics and brilliant melodies without the artist uttering a single word and actually I’m so glad it’s left this way. I got lost in the beauty of the album.

This album is full of great sounds. 'I Never Left You' has this sense of running, maybe even chasing after something. The song 'Selha' is a beautiful piece of instrumental music. It’s the kind of music that makes you think and even makes you cry, It’s so emotional. How can music with no lyrics do this?!

'Memoriam' uses orchestral music in a clever and yet haunting way. Not like scary music, more like goosebump moments. The simple piano notes of 'Cry Out' are breathtaking. And it’s in these simple notes that we see the album's true beauty. Seriously this album is truly beautiful.

Which now leads me onto the song 'Mountains'. This song left me In tears. Why? I honestly don’t know. It touched my soul somewhere for some reason. Again I ask the question how does music do this, time and time again, yet with this album it feels like every track really touched me. The song 'Celebration' is one of the more upbeat tracks on the album And for all the emotions of many of the other tracks it kind of also feels like a breath of fresh air on the album.

I have never enjoyed and fell in love with an instrumental album as much as I have done with this one. I try not to say this too much but this album is a masterpiece of fine music at it's very soul touching best. A truly wonderful album that is well worth every penny.

Review by Jono Davies

LTTM Rating 5 Out of 5 Stars
Standout Tracks
Selha
I Never Left You
Celebration

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