Here a new update on the project:
This is the review of A Certain Whisper I wrote when it was released:
FRANK WYATT “A Certain Whisper” (MP3.COM 107 468) While we’re waiting for the new album from Happy The Man, “The Muse Awakens”, that seems to appear in the autumn, the members of this band aren’t sitting around doing nothing. Stan Whitaker for example can be heard very prominent on “Marked For Madness” from Michelle Young, while Frank Wyatt is hoping to bring out his second solo-CD, “The Physics Of The Heart”, in the near future. On first listen his previous record, “A Certain Whisper” from 2001, doesn’t have much ground in common with HTM. Keyboard-player and player of wind instruments Wyatt, you see, creates a melodious ambient landscape, introvert and, because the nearly lacking of rhythm-instruments, “timeless”. But still there are some links. The opening track “The Seed Of Five Seas” for instance, one of the songs he wrote for a media technology project, appears to be the point of departure for a new HTM-composition, “Quintomare”. And “Seventh Jungle”, in which he experiments with electronic percussion, has some affinity with the more dark solo-work of his ex-colleague Kit Watkins. “A Certain Whisper” is a very personal album though, which can be felt especially in the trilogy “Loss”. It is written for his daughter, as support by a traumatic experience. The title-track shows a different site of Wyatt, that of a poet. Over a threatening background of sounds he reads one of his own poems. On the CD you hear mainly synthesizers, at which often solemn sounds are being added with a piano, while in “A Dream Of Amsterdam”, which is inspired on a conversation with friend/author Todd Brendan Fahey, there’s also some place for the grand and sad tones of his saxophone. This all has resulted in a half an hour full of atmosphere, which shows especially the introvert side of Wyatt.
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