Ballads

Description Playlist Ballads… Potent music will always free the body to move into some great state of harmony (physical, mystical, or dreamlike variant). These fantastic crossings provide the human experience natural intoxicants to feel a wonderful freedom that is often unfounded otherwise. Some might even propose that this is music’s sole and noble purpose. Composed or not, the music of Ashley Bellouin is a most pleasing blessing to this new century’s blueprint for perfect harmonization, and its splendor is a must hear for true experience. With her debut album, Ballads, Bellouin presents the listener with two sidelong tracks, “Bourdon” and “Hummen” that slowly evolve over their respective journeys. Both pieces focus on the acoustic and psychoacoustic phenomena that arise from microtonal tuning variations, and they invite the audience to enter into a heightened state of listening where small details become the primary focus. Each track unfolds into an intricate auditory journey, s