I wasn't particularly familiar with Rolfe Kent's music besides the popular cool jazz of "Sideways" and this came along as a big, pleasant surprise for me.
"Reign over me", the Mike Binder
Towards the last part of the score as presented on album, a full jazz band (piano, contrabass, drums kit and saxophone) take over for some captivating but relaxing and non-intrusive modern jazz with a particularly characteristic, nostalgic urban sound.
"Reign over me" is not ably described in words. The one-of-a-kind listening experience it provides cannot be fully understood unless you get in touch with this very intimate process yourself, i.e. going through this subtle and fragile, soothingly touching and heartwarming gem.
9/11 related drama, provided suitable grounds for Kent to create some extraordinarily beautiful and touching music, written for a small but varicolored instrumental ensemble that includes piano and marimbas, guitars (acoustic mostly), lute and other types of relative plucked instruments that - along with smooth vocals - carry the tender melodies and the soothingly sublime main theme, the later often making use of the distinctly effective connection between the I and IV chord of the minor scale. Synthesized pads, vocals and choir with electronic drum loops and beats provide the atmospheric basis for the afore-mentioned.5
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