With 17 more days to go, our road to ‘Embrace’ is not only continuing but it has reached its pick, its turning point, its keystone. After the relative simplicity (or banality depending on your taste) of the previous estracted singles (‘Another You‘ ft. Mr Probz and ‘Off the Hook’ ft Hardwell) the Dutch mastermind has whetted our palates with what could be the main dish of his upcoming Trance banquet: nothing less that the title track itself.
Yes, right in the last epidsode of ‘A State Of Trance’ the Host has revealed in all its lenght his last ‘magnum opus’ that, said honestly, hit me harder than a punch and left me totally dumbfounded. (Even as I type this, I’m still so surprised that I haven’t decided if what I just wrote is to be understood in a positive or negative way.)
‘Embrace’ is, in line with the Armin’s own title track’s tradition, really exceptional and unique because fuses togheter an improbable jazz trumpet (for the occasion managed by the super skilled hands of Eric Vloeimans) with more ‘classic’ trance instruments like piano and strings and with not one, not two but three (very) differents drops that range from big room to proper trance.
As you can already understand from these few words, the irons in the fire is much, amazing, but not exactly homogeneus, and, perhaps because of that, despide the abundant seven minutes on which is diluited, it sounds that some parts are hasty and pretty disconnetted with the others.
Anyway, I hope I haven’t discouraged you from listening this incredible piece of music that definetely shouldn’t be devalued just because less ‘canonical’ of its predecessors but conversely appreciated and exaltated in its essence of sperimentation and in its “embracing” mission.
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