Fortadelis Exposure
In photography, exposure is the amount of light that reaches your camera’s sensor or film. Over or underexposed film can result in some very beautiful and spectacular imagery. Fortadelis’s album Exposure develops into something very similar to one of these pictures. There is a soft focus to each and every sound and melody within it that eventually blends into this beautiful work of art. The atmosphere of this record itself brings to mind what one might have heard browsing a gallery of these prints in New York City during the 1970s. The pianos throughout Exposure range from something not unlike a warm and fuzzy, old photograph to bright and pristine. There are various wind instruments featured in its numerous songs that help create a lightness and airiness to the composition as a whole.
Some highlights on this album include “LaidBack” and “Miles ahead”. “LaidBack” makes you feel like you’re in one of the vehicles slowly cruising down the road of the cover art with its funky basslines and soothing strings until everything’s a blur and you realize you’re actually “Miles ahead”. Pack your electric suitcase piano because the echoey chord hits in this one are about to take you for a long trip. There’s also this splendidly beautiful organ that flows through “Miles ahead” to help you get where the track is going like the lines on a map because eventually you get lost in the bridge with its dirty Rhodes piano progression and synth solo.
Fortadelis’s Exposure is an album you can visualize as much as hear. Honestly, I feel it’s one of the better albums I’ve heard in a while and it’s definitely worth the time to listen. The best part is you can stream or download it for free right now here but if you enjoy it as much as I do, I strongly suggest donating to the artist, so they continue to make such stunning pictorial records of music.
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