After sojourning in Hollywood for a blockbuster career renaissance that’s included BRAVE, THOR and RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the sprightly Scotsman musically visits the real America to satisfy his own inner muse in this expansively impressive concept album PATRICK DOYLE: IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. Paying tribute to his ancestors who immigrated to Alabama, Doyle captures their destination with equal parts rousing beauty and wide-eyed affection. Of course he opens with “Washington DC’s” noble horns and symphonic sweep that also effortlessly conveys an Aaron Copland’s sense of Americana.
Yet the nation that Doyle surveys is mostly on a smaller scale, with his next “Pumpkin Pie” piece using gentle piano and strings to bring on imagery of a child’s dance through a wheat fields. Melodic visions of heartland purity and bustle continue to follow through these engagingly melodic concert pieces. Ranging from the carefree to the noble, Doyle’s work captures a sense of proud, but subdued patriotism, with a particular view towards music that resonates with the grace of our long-vanished, wide open spaces. A wind-swept sense of rhythm also accompanies the glistening bells, swelling brass, lush strings and subtly western guitars, capturing the sense of innocence and wonder that must have beheld Doyle’s family upon them setting foot on their new land. But even without the anchor of its concept, “Impressions” impresses with Doyle’s always-remarkable talent for sweeping music, done here in a way that makes this album’s energy distinct from his film work. With the freedom to musically roam without the constraint of images beyond those in his own head, Doyle shares in the listener a blissful promise of America’s better nature. Sure his “Impressions” might have been recorded in Budapest, but a better, recent valentine to our nation from said “foreigners” you’re not likely to find.
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