Roman Leykam
»Essence«
Jul 2017 · 17 Tracks · 66:37 Min.
CD FMA 1733
UPC 191061333494
»Essence« is an acoustic guitar album. Reduced guitar sounds with a subtle atmospheric mood touch the fringe of music with a breathing sonic experience.
Tracks:
1.the decision of the difference 4:19, 2.dust bowl 3:18, 3.food for thoughts 6:14, 4.the world as a canvas 3:50, 5.between reality and dream 4:16, 6.turbulences 2:40, 7.subterranean river 3:24, 8.enigmatic 3:54, 9.uncomplaining patience 4:12, 10.excavation at the heart 3:26, 11.overwhelming sights 4:20, 12.instinct 5:43, 13.clarity 2:48, 14.fleetingness of time 3:15, 15.the malice 3:46, 16.cozy strangeness 3:14, 17.the luxury of contentedness 3:56;
Recorded and mixed in 2015 in the studio of Roman Leykam.
Mastered 2016 in the studio of Frank Meyer.
Produced and performed by Roman Leykam.
Photos by Roman Leykam, Artworks by Frank Meyer and Roman Leykam.
6-sided DigiPak, 8-pages booklet
Roman Leykam: steel stringed Line 6 Variax 700 acoustic guitar.
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... Roman Leykam plays the guitar in a fantasy world where he feels alone and miles away from the world we’re living in ...
+ + + : Roman Leykam clearly is an artist like no other. This man gives you the impression to live and compose on another music planet. He’s not the only artist dealing with this kind of abstract music, but it always remains something particular and clearly different. I like the atmospheric side of his work, which could be a great match with a visual artwork. It sounds like his transforming images into music. It also feels a bit like an imaginary world of isolation. Notice by the way the album has been delivered in a beautiful and somewhat hypnotic digipak format.
– – – : "Essence" sounds experimental and therefore not exactly the kind of work, which is easy to listen to. I think it needs a visual accompaniment creating a kind of 'total concept' while the music on its own feels hard to catch.
Conclusion: Roman Leykam plays the guitar in a fantasy world where he feels alone and miles away from the world we’re living in. It could be a kind of meditation, but definitely a music universe of loneliness. I’m sure it might be pretty intriguing for a selected number of listeners.
Best songs: "Uncomplaining Patience", "Subterranean River".
... He keeps on focusing on the painstaking forging of aural settings for meditation, but he preferred to squeeze an acoustic guitar for this lofty target ...
... a breathing musical experience for your imagination. 17 titles which create an impressive lasting effect. Also by the acoustic guitar which is charged with emotions. digitale Jazz-Zeitung 8/2017
... I already got several releases of Roman Leykam and up to now my sentence was always the same: Good musician but the music doesn't touch me at all. I won't revise this but to be honest, this record is even a bit more interesting to me. ...