Diane Arkenstone’s musical MO is usually New Age fantasy audio-scapes crafted with lush and occasionally Celtic-leaning instrumentation. Today, she adds something equally expressive, exceptionally arresting, and an often clamored-for rarity – her calming, healing-warmth-from-the-hearth vocals. Yep, Diane picked up an acoustic guitar, became entranced by an uncommon tuning, and reworked her 2013 hit “We Can Live Forever” into the now more earthy and peace-inducing “Turquoise Sky.” Ready for the song that promotes and creates an aural, soulfully propagating calm? Let’s listen, and talk about it.
Wait. Who does what?
Diane Arkenstone tackles vocals and acoustic guitar; David Arkenstone adds bass, percussion and piano; producer Dave Appelt assists with his masterful music-making experience and the addition of strings, French horn, and cello.
Listening, and talking about it.
It’s peaceful acoustic guitar strumming, soft and sun-kissed piano punctuation, and a promise to live peacefully. Eternally.
The opening lyric “Rise up with the sun, eat chocolates till we’re done” immediately resonates. Because here, in this envisioned and perpetually peaceful realm, unburdened by stresses familial or financial, you’ll spend worry-free eons indulging in what grants greater happiness. I would add one stipulation: chocolate, or any preferred foodstuff, could be eaten with absolute abandon and without the usual consequences of overconsumption (like fat-producing caloric overload or squishy, impacted arteries. But I digress… ).
Diane’s voice only enhances this graceful and musically described sun-glimmering serenity. It’s whispery with a subtle grain; it’s a hug, a soft kiss, an exertion of subtle pressure comparable to a tenderly held hand.
The song, beginning quietly, adds bass, a carefully glanced drum kit, and bending, foundational strings. It utters its wishes. It longs for an existential state never upset by traumatically truncated mortal lifetimes. It wants you, at peace, now and forever.
And, availed of its quiet instrumentation, the song ends by restfully reiterating its initial wishes: “Rise up with the sun, eat chocolates till we’re done.”
But is it good?
Welcome to the new human experience: it’s eternal, free of death, disease, and any trauma brought on by any imaginable, painful alchemy of the two. It’s love, it’s gratefulness. It’s the beauty of the present that iterates to infinity. And if we’re still stricken with mortality and denied the everlasting, “Turquoise Sky” posits the way to suffering’s end — by creating moments chambered eternally by memory. Is it good? It’s great, and speaks to a dream of greatness to come. RECOMMENDED!
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