Jade Alger Leads Us Down The Path In The Meadow

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Sept. 23, 2016 - PRLog -- Melancholy, contemplative, and full of expectation, Jade Alger's music soothes and entices. His official album debut, Unfolding the Muse, takes us on a fragile journey of emotion. Although a current resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he is a traveling minstrel at heart. Within the 16 tracks, Alger makes reference to London, Kauai and the gently rolling plains of the Great Midwest.

In Alger's song, Lakes of Champaign, he summons us to Silicon Prairie to remember. To thumb through our bygone days until we can recollect what it was like to be 17 and in love. With a vocal line that rises and falls like the wind through the trees, he makes mention of swinging bridges, misty mornings and 'the solitude of untouched youth'. The double entendre in the song title adds to the mystique, inviting us to reminisce those prime youthful moments when the sky still retained that magical shade of blue and the rolling plains were symbols of infinite possibility. Instantly, I'm taken back to that tranquil glow of a sunset on Kaufman Lake or fishing for bluegill at Lake of the Woods under the playful chase of monarch butterflies.

The chorus beacons us into the arms of sweet romance. Fragments of cello staccato weave in and out of effortless guitar textures as he sings, "Then you awaken those things you left vacant and tell me stories of you." Alger wrote this tune with the lush wilderness surrounding Champaign, Illinois as the backdrop for his affecting lyricism. We are led into a nostalgic exploration as we open the dusty diaries of adolescence.

Take a listen and see if it doesn't take you back. While you're at it, pick up the full album; you won't regret it.

Listen to Lakes of Champaign: https://soundcloud.com/jade-alger/lakes-of-champaign.

Buy the Album: https://jadealger.bandcamp.com/album/unfolding-the-muse.

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