E.G. Phillips has always done things his way. His approach to making music has always been unique. His influences being found more in the modern classical world than the pop or rock part of the musical landscape.
“The Light You Reflect” blends deft classical piano touches with sweeping strings, all driven forward with frantic folk guitars. His vocal deliveries, too, are not of the standard pop world, more jazz adjacent and even pushing into a Tom Waits sort of vibe, in attitude if not sound, more akin to the piano bar singers of the 20s and 30s than much you will find in today’s circles, outside the more adventurous end of classical and jazz.
Fad and fashion are not something Phillips has any truck with, preferring to blend a unique sound from a wide and eclectic range of influences, ones not commonly seen working together. And that is what makes his music so interesting, so adventurous… so damn compelling.
As the title suggests, the song is about the natural light that emanates from all of us, the glow of our soul, perhaps, our primal, ancient, immortal nature. But, as Phillips reminds us through this otherworldly tale, if the deities and fae-folk of myth react badly to mortals even catching the slightest glimpse of this divine glow, something reflecting their most revealing and vulnerable forms, what hope is there for us mere mortals?
What hope indeed?
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