Chucc Sanfilippo
“Crayon Sun”
Brella Records
Welcome to Chucc Sanfilippo’s long and wending world of velvety song, lovelorn loss and limpid ire. Yes, this is a gentle triumph of an album. A pellucid music of delicate shimmer. An emotional maze. “Everlasting beauty is the beauty of the heart” he sings, a line that somehow seems key to the whole, subtly soft-focused shebang.
“Crayon Sun” creates its own world, a cloistered daze of yellowy haze and clouded sky, a palette of plenty in a world where darker moments are enlightened by the fragrant hint of midsummer moonlight, and lighter moments drop anchor in blue black depths of uncertain portent.
With a giddy sense of sparkle and swagger this is an album of trill and thrill and haunt and jaunt. Its heart hangs heavy, a constant reminder that hurt and hope like beauty manifest is a forlorn joy lost and found. In the end, regret’s simple shadow looms ever present like a promise broken or a poison arrow somehow doomed from the start.
R. Fortune
London, UK
