Brought to us by Tony Martinez of Sceneries, Placements and other Tucson projects, Abandonments is the duo musical project of B. Cook and A. Martinez. Personally, I find instrumental music to be very fascinating and widely emotive. However, I wasn’t sure how to best describe or review this electronic ballad, so I decided to share my personal experience of listening to it.
To me, this song tells a story of perseverance. “Cowered” begins with beautiful ambient tones that grow and build to a fullness of sound that lifts me up and carries me away. The flowing and rich melody moves the story along and excites the experience of curiosity, discovery, wonder; Then conflict, disruption, stopped. From that moment, there comes an ethereal peace inside the stillness of the music that reinvokes flow and movement. As the song continues to grow again, the feelings of that power and wonder grow with it. When the song builds to its conclusion, it touches us back down to the ground and back to the settled, stillness of that same feeling of peace. This is a beautiful song!