(A condensed version of 'Islands' Parts 1, 2 & 3) 

Music by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)
Engineered by Jay Mark

Full-length versions:
soundcloud.com/adamlevin/islands (instrumental)
soundcloud.com/levin-collab/islands-modern-mind (spoken word)

Amidst our national climate of division -- and creating and sustaining solidarity -- 'Islands' is a metaphor and musical reflection of those challenges.

Its Movement One ('Pandora's Box') resembles a slightly twisted piano concerto, Two ('Needle's Eye') a piano in solitary confinement, and Three ('Testament') an electric guitar sneak attack....with jazz, classical and rock elements forming the erratic atmosphere. Or a lengthy Rorschach test with no correct answer. Using a roadmap and compass, the first movement is marked by themes and variations, the second hosts a development with thematic signposts at the entrance and exit gates, and the third reflects them all back at you in a funhouse mirror.

"Portraying issues of human isolation and connection is 'Islands', one of Adam's most challenging and invigorating works to date.....Adam's magnum opus engages in a bit of seriously playful one-upmanship, daring the listener to keep up with him as he takes us on a rollercoaster ride through an apparently haphazard collection of themes that is ultimately revealed to be an intricately balanced construct, bringing order out of chaos just as a kaleidoscope wrings symmetrical beauty from broken glass."
- Peter Stoller

"Lovely! I'm enjoying listening to this immensely. Who can resist such subtlety of emotion and such powerful imagination? The music has a Personality and it's a very attractive one....really great writing and playing...the sound quality is stunning, crisp clean and wonderfully dynamic...loads of influences that blend to make something new. Yeah!"
- On-Reflection

"That bass line at the beginning of 'Islands' still freaks me out, as it is so perfectly melodic."
- Ian Smit, Monkeyworks

Islands Suite

Adam Levin, keyboards
Wendy Boulding, John Eyre, Adam Levin & Peter Stoller, vocals

Songs by Adam Levin
w/Wendy Boulding ('So Alive') and Elena Rye Pellicciaro ('Do You Feel It?')