Into Forever

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Product Description ''I wanted to create an acoustic perfume, a soft musical fragrance to help listeners relax and unwind.'' ~Frank Steiner, Jr. Review Frank Steiner, Jr. is a brave performer. On Into Forever, Steiner's new title, things get started with a ten-minute opening track, ''Love's Whisper.'' It is due to Steiner's ability as a musician and as a composer that this gambit pays off. ''Love's Whisper'' has a panoply of different elements, establishing the track as something scintillating. Different movements provide listeners with a constantly-changing experience; the one constant that Into Forever possesses is that this experience is positive. During ''Love's Whisper's'' follow-up, ''Floating Pedals,'' Steiner lets everything drop away. Listeners are provided with one voice - a piano line that blends dark and light, music and silence, into a stellar track. The authority of the piano gradually swells until listeners are greeted with an overall warmth. There is a more terse and autumn Steiner to be heard in ''Radiant Spiral,'' a track that uses repetition and more soothing tones to involve listeners. The middle point of the album is marked with ''Divine Fragrance,'' a fifteen-minute travail through orchestra and ambient lands. There is something epic to this track that will stick with listeners long after the CD stops spinning. ''Lead Me To You'' is the first track of the second half of Into Forever, and listeners are eased back into a serene bliss - hints of the outdoors can be found at all points during this seven-minute slice of heaven. Into Forever ends with ''Mystery's Invitation,'' a conclusion that places an exclamation point onto the album. This is a darker track, reminiscent of a forest or nighttime outdoors scene, and Steiner's compositions do well to add to the overall ambience of this closing effort. Pick Into Forever up today.Top Tracks: Love's Whisper, Lead Me to You Rating: 8.8/10 --James McQuiston, Editor - Neufutur Magazine and Neufutur.comWhat can you say about a cat who says his mission statement was to create audio perfume? I give him points for trying to get your attention. What he does make is next stage new wave where he is doing something more than noodling on the synth to create a mood. This set leads you down actual passages in your mind as it guides you along on your head trip. Not ambient, not really new age, not instrumental or jazz, it just might be something new along all these lines and it sure does make for a great relaxation record. Timing out just at the right length for the average massage, this just might be the perfect gift for your massage therapist if you wish she'd finally update that Relaxation Company stuff. --Chris Spector - Midwest Record RecapA powerful, refined blend of acoustic and electronic music, Into Forever is timeless. Frequently, the composition is spare and spacious, giving us pause to appreciate the beauty of silence defined by sound. From low resonating notes to high-flying overtones, the acoustic and electronic elements organically unify to create a deep and meditative recording. This is the perfect remedy at the end of a long day, or anytime a little relaxation is in order. --Bette Timm - New Age Reviewer