‘Rural TV Classical’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones is a 15-track instrumental album that tells an expansive story of a rural town through orchestral instrumentation and imagery. Each track evokes a bright mood and moving imagery that feels like it captures sonic snapshots while taking you through them.
The album’s sound is characterised by strings, with some track introducing flutes, harmonicas and percussions depending on the story a specific track aims to tell.
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‘Rural TV Classical’: Track-by-Track
‘Rural TV Classical’ (I): ‘Aerial View’- ‘Feeding the Chickens’
The album opens with ‘Aerial View’, a track that evokes those sweeping establishing shots that communicate to a typical viewer where our narrative(s) are set. The song feels like whirling spiral that is equal parts cinematic and all-encompassing.
‘Country Vista’ on the other hand moves sideways rather than a spiral, with a soundscape that feels simultaneously dynamic yet rooted. This track seems to move in diagonals with this interesting sense of grounded gravitas.
‘Crops’ is a quick-paced track that captures this busy, almost hurried sense of motion. Its sound also feels infused with this deeper sense of emotion, with these stirring strings complimenting the track’s quick sound.
‘Farmland’ seems to create this bright motif that feels full of life and this clear sense of location. The introducing the flute & a more prominent piano to layer a lovely, cascading and vivid melody. This while ‘New Day on the Farm’ is just as bright, with the flute and strings from the last track evoking a similar mood to the last through timbre.
Much like ‘Crops’, ‘Cleaning the Stables’ captures emotions with its dynamic strings and piano. It also captures this sense of brightness that feels fitting for the track. ‘Children in the Farm’ adds this twinkling sense of micheviousness, that evokes little kids on their tip-toes while sneaking in somewhere that isn’t for them.
This while the plucking fiddle comes in to introduce a new element to the ‘Rural TV Classical’ vibe.
‘Feeding the Chickens’ is another dynamic track that uses its cascading strings to introduce a light delicateness to the mix. This with the track’s flutes helps the song feel more deliberate, slow and almost delicate.
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‘Rural TV Classical’ (II): ‘Vet Emergency’- ‘The Outdoors’
‘Vet Emergency’ is a standout on the album, allowing a strong emotion to permeate and make itself known through the rest of the album. Its cascading strings are heavy with worry and emotional charge while they race to the finish. The destination that resolves into heavy relief that comes at song’s end.
‘Timelapse Planting’ retains that emotional weight, that seems to counter the light sense of brightness that was established in the beginning. The song takes us through the process of something growing, moving towards somewhere elevated in a time-lapse.
‘Sally’s Market Stall’ feels like a direct continuation of the last track, with different pre-established motifs mingling through the song. Like all the stories so far coming together at the market-place.
‘Ecosystem’ takes on a bit of a heavier, weightier tone, with deeper strings that build with an emotional weight. The song though quick is also moody, holding onto this sense of suspense and anticipation. Like a weighty grey cloud bringing cold breeze on the horizon.
‘Lambing Season’ is idyllic and bright, with horns anddynamic strings in a tinkling cascade. All our main instruments showcase another aspect of dynamic motion being captured though sound, but in a subtle almost calm way this time around.
‘Farmer Jack’ uses the harmonica to represent a farmer playing his instrument while taking his herd on graze on luscious fields in pleasant weather. The song’s tone is a relaxing cascade with pianos that trickle in this emotional spark.
The final track on the album, ‘The Outdoors’ is a cascading, quick-paced track that also has this settled air to it. Each dynamic element of the album’s soundscape seems to meld here, like a closing credit scene, and unlike the songs that came before, the song seems to resolve/settle/end without delay.
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‘Rural TV Classical’: Conclusion & The Artist
‘Rural TV Classical’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones captures this sense of cinematic, goosebump raising nostalgia while evoking imagery. This that is equal parts delicate, bright and feel-good within those myriad of cascading emotions.
All of this making for a relaxing, yet goosebump-raising listen.
The Artist
Thomas Hewitt Jones is an award-winning composer of contemporary classical & commercial music. His diverse catalouge includes small instrumental, orchestral, choral & ballet works.
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