Daniel Amedee - Life
Daniel Amedee’s album Life isn’t background music. It’s the music one plays loudly into headphones, the music one uses to block out the busy world and think, the music one bobs a head to while staring out the window of a moving train. While Amedee’s rather repetitive and simple lyrics don’t necessarily paint a story in one’s head, they do offer comfort, inspiration, and motivation to the pensive mind.
Amedee’s simple songs describe the feeling and spirituality of presence. The first, “Life,” mentions beautifully mundane examples of natural life as if to say that life can exist everywhere. It is a song of lyrical simplicity but musical complexity, built off of passionate crescendos in timbre and also volume.
“Be All” and “Rhythm of Being” encourage one to allow oneself to be all, to feel all, and to recognize that existence has a very appealing rhythm, just like a great piece of music. In “The Only God is You,” Amedee instills power in a listener to decide their futures, fates, and characters, and to carve their own paths. Finally, Amedee encourages the listener to make the connection between presence and place in the outside world in “Reaching Outside.”
The only 15-minute, 5-song album is a quick listen. Yet, in my opinion, it is most rewarding to devote an uninterrupted 15 minutes to Amedee’s album. Amedee truly establishes himself as an album artist, as his theme and musicality does come across best when his songs are heard consecutively and in one sitting. His isolated songs do not tell a story or complete the whole picture, but together, they are powerful and thought-provoking. This may not always be suitable to a given situation, but it surely shows the power of the style unique to Amedee’s music.
In a world busy with music, it can be refreshing to listen to that which benefits from simplicity, calm, and the ability to stir thought. Daniel Amedee’s album Life is exactly this.
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- Mia T. ‘20
