Today we are turning our attention to an overwhelmingly praise-worthy new compilation celebrating up-and-coming composer Michael Mott, WHERE THE SKY ENDS.
The Devil & God God, where has Michael Mott been all of our lives?! In a modern musical theatre age with nary a risky, original musical likely to make it to the mainstages of Broadway and almost as rare to find even in the ever-increasingly evaporating Off-Broadway scene, with a single collection of selections from musicals he has composed that are currently in development and a few one-off songs, Mott firmly establishes himself as one of the most important, daring and inventive musical theatre artists alive today. Hyperbole? Listen to WHERE THE SKY ENDS and disagree - I dare you. Hell, I double-dare you. Scaling the very heights of drama, the depths of misery, the passion of romance and the power of dreams; seamlessly vacillating between comedy songs, character numbers and big theatrical anthems to pop confections, mood pieces and even an unabashed dance track aimed at the current charts, Mott is nothing if not dizzyingly versatile and dazzlingly accomplished in the genres he seeks to explore. Furthermore, the charms of this release are not merely limited to likely appealing to the Broadway babies and theatre music enthusiasts among us - oh, no; Mott is creating music for everybody, of every inclination, everywhere. This is music for today and music for us all to enjoy - and savor it we will. Again - and again and again. To be perfectly frank, I simply cannot remember a musical theatre-related album that is at once so startlingly fresh and portentous of a blindingly bright future for its creator, nor one so absorbingly passionate, so persuasively powerful and so utterly, repeatedly enjoyable as this is - in years, maybe decades. It's a masterpiece. In short, Michael Mott's WHERE THE SKY ENDS is where heaven begins.Videos