There are times when you find yourself hearing a song and thinking that it is saying something to your soul and Colours of Time by Shyfrin Alliance is such a song. The essence of this group is Eduard Shyfrin whose mad career, as an award-winning mathematician, physicist and philosopher are spilled into a song that is really a thoughtful conversation with your deepest instincts. It is damn sure rock, but it is rock with a pulse, it is rock with crude emotions and learned lessons.
The voice of Shyfrin is the stroke of a warm and bulky blanket. A deep baritone has tales to tell. Tales of love, loss, perhaps some regrets and you cannot but lean in, waiting to hear what comes next. It is not theatrical it is insular as though he has lived them all. It sounds like a memory you are holding onto, lingering, dreamy, drawing you under with a haze of feelings moving between the ache and the hope.
The music itself is magic pure. The guitar is the little nudge of a friend, warm and comfortable, and the organ swells creep up on you like nostalgia you did not realize you had. The rhythm is kept on the ground by all of this, never frantic, but at the same time giving the song its space to breathe. It is produced with heart-there is no studio zhush. It is full of warmth, sincerity, as though through a vinyl record in a silent room.
The lyrics? They are poems that you would write in a notebook and struggle with time, memory and meaning. They do not preach, they just sit down with you and you start thinking about the things that happen to you that makes you who you are. This is the vibe that you love Pink Floyd or Peter Gabriel. Colours of Time is a song, but it is more than that, it is a sensation, it is something you will remember so many years after the song has been played.
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