![]() ![]() Frankly, this is the most beautiful and touching recording I’ve heard so far this year. One could use it as ambient music, but it constantly rewards one’s close attention as well. It has made me stronger, made me want to live life again.” For most listeners, hearing this music out of its original context may not be quite as transformative an experience–how could it be? But the love and warmth that existed between Dingman and his father is everywhere apparent in these compositions, and Dingman’s exceptional skills as a writer and improviser mean that the music is never static or needlessly repetitive or random-sounding it’s always interesting and frequently complex, while always conveying a sense of gentleness, love, and peace. But his father reacted to the music somewhat differently he expressed gratitude that it had “open(ed) up patterns of thought and being” for him, going so far as to characterize the music as a “miracle” that “has transformed me over and over again. When vibraphonist and composer Chris Dingman’s father was at home under hospice care during his last months of life, Dingman moved a vibraphone into his father’s house and improvised music for him designed to soothe and relax him and help him sleep.
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