The new piece by Alice Kim Jenkins is aluminous and effervescent and just plain old calming. She figures in greatly and wildly, strange figures from outer-space. I enjoy her trifles and her other-worldly glue-gun apparatus of goodness. There are pleasant pauses in this piano-based instrumental composition from heaven. One does indeed wonder if Alice Kim herself is from that great land in the sky. Could these sounds heard be made from anyone else other than an angel? The likelihood certainly points to sour and genuinely delightful goose beats from beyond the third moon, now and forever.

Alice Kim creates what the church elders once successfully referred to as “substantial extenders”, in that her piano heroics are both tender and forceful, never showboating but forever bold with a genuine mellow and an utterly delicious chocolate covered candy shell. I wish more were like her, but there is only one, just one. Far be it from me to read into ones personal life, but this pleasant little tune almost reads like a diary entry. I can taste the tear drops and smell the warm cups of coffee; hold snow in my fist and yell at it. Yell until it is no longer snow, but something more beautiful, something more substantial like this piece of music entitled “El sueno de don Quijote”. For what reason it is given this name, I do not know, perhaps one should ask the artist? Yes. Perhaps…in time, one shall.

Fluttery gallons of love, pleasant dips in a pool filled with bubbly and fizzing soda pops. I can’t even think anymore, and I don’t even want to, I am won over by the music. Won over by this fantastic piece of instrumental gold that I won’t soon forget; and even the late great Mr. Rogers himself would indeed have to champion the complexities by which this pianist attacks her instrument. I am beyond offended, I am simply a shaved werewolf who has found melodies that express my soul’s inner-most, and never before…or perhaps ever again…will I feel so warm inside. Thank you Miss Alice Kim, thank you so very much.

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