{"id":7399,"date":"2025-11-14T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:37:14","slug":"album-review-the-unfortunate-collision-of-everything-at-once-richard-davies-words-sammy-stein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/album-review-the-unfortunate-collision-of-everything-at-once-richard-davies-words-sammy-stein\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: &#8220;The Unfortunate Collision Of Everything At Once&#8221; &#8211; Richard Davies. Words: Sammy Stein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2521595005\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/richarddavies.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-unfortunate-collision-of-everything-at-once\">The Unfortunate Collision of Everything at Once by Richard Davies<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Davies-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Davies-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Davies-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Davies-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Davies-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Davies-435x435.jpg 435w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Davies-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Davies.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Davies is a UK saxophonist experimenting with cinematic sounds and marrying jazz, blues, electronic, and ambient styles. His past releases include over twenty albums, including \u2018Cosmic Odyssey,\u2019 \u2018A Pagan Landscape,\u2019 \u2018Memory Sells,\u2019 \u2018Misspent Youth,\u2019 and more. Pagan Landscape was reviewed on Platinum Mind here: <a href=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/28\/album-review-a-pagan-landscape-richard-davies-words-sammy-stein\/\">Album Review: \u201cA Pagan Landscape\u201d \u2013 Richard Davies. Words: Sammy Stein \u2013 Platinummind.net<\/a> and Cosmic Odyssey was reviewed on Medium here: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-riff\/album-review-richard-davies-cosmic-odyssey-ii-a431baf53e77\">Album Review | Richard Davies \u2018Cosmic Odyssey II\u2019 | by Sammy Stein | The Riff | Medium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically of Davies, \u2018The Unfortunate Collision of Everything at Once\u2019 explores the connections of musical styles, different sonic platforms, and features his lyrical playing style, which forms the backbone of his music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the intricate, tricky percussive rhythms overlaid with atmospheric sax in \u2018Nice Quod Revertar\u2019 to the gentle, rich, ambient gait of \u2018Cat on a Window Sill,\u2019 the album is packed with diversity of style and musical interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davies uses an array of ideas and concepts, such as the electronic sounds to amplify the essence of his themes, such as in \u2018Sea Creatures\u2019, where the unhurried saxophone sings across sounds of rippling percussion, before building into a rhythmic, explorative final section, or the interesting emergence of the sax from a recorded conversation, such as on \u2018Dining Out\u2019. This track features some wonderfully clever \u2018misplaced\u2019 notes coming in just shy of the major intervals, too, which adds unexpected atmosphere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Ashamed\u2019 is glorious in its simplicity of form, yet Davies\u2019s sax adds some complexity to create a track packed with interest, playing soft ascensions and descents across the open styled percussive elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018This World Is Inside Nothing\u2019 is a melodic track with brassy overtones and gentle keyboard, while \u2018Ode to Tiptoeing through Life\u2019 features Eastern rhythms and intricate sax, including some flash-fingered phrases. \u2018Anxiety Hides In My Dreams\u2019 begins with a bass line that runs throughout the number, with piano entering with chords and the sax soaring across the top, and some spoken voice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The closing track, \u2018The Unfortunate Collision of Everything At Once,\u2019 is a dream-like, explorative number, with beautifully worked melodic phrases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album is a gentle and immersive creation featuring Davies playing some of his best music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unfortunate Collision of Everything at Once by Richard Davies Richard Davies is a UK saxophonist experimenting with cinematic sounds and marrying jazz, blues, electronic, and ambient styles. His past releases include over twenty albums, including \u2018Cosmic Odyssey,\u2019 \u2018A Pagan Landscape,\u2019 \u2018Memory Sells,\u2019 \u2018Misspent Youth,\u2019 and more. Pagan Landscape was reviewed on Platinum Mind here: &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,191,229,139,30,142,140,187,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-alternative","category-composer","category-jazz","category-music","category-producer","category-review","category-saxophone","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7401,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions\/7401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}