Chris Lastovicka - Fortune Has Turned (Remixed) (2019)

Fortune Has Turned (Remixed) traces the journey from deep suffering to the fullness and freedom of the heart. It is a quest to find the Self. Legendary mix engineer Jeremy Allom (Massive Attack, David Bowie) took the original, raw recordings for this album and brought out their vitality with his own powerful, creative stamp.

You don't want to miss this...mesmerizing in its intensity, and overwhelmingly passionate. A number of things set the album apart, making it special: first, it's acoustical classic music and includes more than a dozen musicians and vocalists, consisting of violins, cellos, French horns, viola, and piano. Second, the album s sonic soundscapes are volatile, brilliant, and gorgeous. Third, the topics are erudite, eclectic, and substantial, like Gnostic demons, tyranny, and the tribulations of Job... Fortune Has Turned (Remixed) is dense with complex colors and uneasiness, yet marvelously mesmerizing in its intensity, and overwhelmingly passionate.

This remix of Fortune Has Turned is truly phenomenal. The remix was done by the legendary Jeremy Allom who mixed Massive Attack's Blue Lines and mastered by Emily Lazar who has worked with David Bowie, Evanescence, Sia, The Foo Fighters and Beck, to name but a fraction. How perfect to pick producers who are so firmly in the world of commercial music and yet to intrinsically linked to the most artful of it... Chris Lastovicka is a master who is able to write something so timeless and also so timely. It sounds like forgiveness and we all need that.

Fortune Has Turned (Remixed) is a work which demands the listener s attention. Without devoting to it your full focus, it's easy to gloss over the nuances and subtleties which truly make it a one of a kind album. Few manage to create something that at once feels removed or distant from the composer and yet still retains a high degree of raw emotional honesty.