"There, in a twilight region of perception
Where slumber and reality are out of distinction
Behind the shade of fears and anothers’ hopes
You’ll find yourself…
           
This is not just one more album in genre of new age music. A debut project “Shadows” by Al Conti presents melodies that have been passed through a perception and splashed outside.  They are imbued with a life’s experience of the composer, achieved through sufferings of his heart.  Compositions of “Shadows” reflect a way through pain and sufferings to gladness and light. Al Conti is not afraid of having a look into depths of his underself in order to find his own “I”. And the “Shadows” album is a very individual one.
 
In Al Conti’s music there is a free rein of self-_expression which is inherent to new age. Moreover his tunes are very positive. Nevertheless beyond the effervescent joy and optimism one feels an abundant experience of outlived losses and regrets. And it does not hang dormant, it emphasizes bright music of the album with deft touches.
 
“Shadows” is music of the present. While listening to this album you don’t want to be puzzled with the question what happened to you before, what kind of a person you were earlier, and the only desirable thing is to feel yourself at this very moment and enjoy life as far as it is really beautiful. And the main question now is not what you were but what you became after all that had happened and where you are now.
 
Al Conti’s music helps to look to your present and future optimistically and to realize that the shadows of bygone fears have no power over you, and the bitterness of past sufferings has been left somewhere behind a long time ago. And you are just listening to Al Conti’s melodious compositions and enjoy life. And you really have the things to be enjoyed!
 
The “Shadows” album brings out clearly that new age music is successfully developing and improving. And listening to inspired, full-of-life compositions of Al Conti you just rejoice in sensing of another spiritual reality. And again you fully appreciate that our world couldn’t exist without it.
 
Having released your shoulders from the burden of the past,
Having given up the richness of the days bygone to the infinite space,
You’ll feel that you are happy
And alive again.
 
Serge Kozlovsky
http://mkmk.com/kozlovsky
 
P.S. Translated by Tatyana L. Permyakova.