This “IN THE DARKNESS” debut CD from Accelerator not only
takes one on a journey with no emotions barred, it also takes one on
a potent roller coaster ride into the bowels of discovering character in the soul. Powerful and simultaneously delicate, Accelerator has achieved an uncanny balance through this compilation of GOOD verses EVIL, GIVING verses TAKING and RAW HUMANITY verses UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS. It’s like reaching your fingertips up to the endless sky, higher and higher, as you ascend to the top, anticipating an adrenaline rush rising sharply, only to plummet into the unknown abyss. Yes! “IN THE DARKNESS” is out there, with such diverse influences as; Blue Rodeo melodies, AC/DC and Alice Cooper guitar, Pink Floyd keyboards, Otis Reading, Solomon Burke and Mick Jagger vocal lines, James Taylor lyrics and Queen harmonies and then to top things off - a splash of Supertramp and Beatles to ice the cake.

Yah, you’re in for a real trip when you buy this unprecedented wild passage through a rainbow medley of wide-open passion, straight from the heart! Yet even from the depths of its darkness, there somehow shines a hopeful ray of divine light with compelling lyrics such as; “Making my concessions for all my indiscretions and the seeds I’ve sown” (from IN THE DARKNESS),
“Just look inside...and if you feel the eyes lookin’ back at you from the darkness...don’t let’em stare you down”,“So help a friend...who may be feeling down...because in the end...what goes around, comes around” or think about this one; “So save your soul…you’ve got to get down on your knees and pray…you’ve got to pay the toll...come the judgement day”(from WHAT GOES AROUND),
“Those high-fashion glamour queens...they aint’ got nothin’ on you,
I’ve read the script and played the scene...and nothing else will do
(from ONLY YOU),
and finally, a description of the creative process with; “Scrunched up scribbled papers...scattered all over the floor...fragments of an over active mind...that's constantly torn”
(from WHERE HAS ALL THE MUSIC GONE?).
Then there’s the fire in the compositions, arrangements with panache and movement with guts and flavour. Don’t miss this one from a vast talent, a one man artistic effort who is...ACCELERATOR.

By the way, each and every track, each and every instru-mental and each and every vocal on this CD was created from only one man Accelerator and all the tracks were produced in real time with live recording only- NO MIDI! Accelerator also composed all the music, mixed all the arrangements and independently produced the CD - alone. He did however; incorporate five amazing lyrical contributions from friends out of the ten songs on this CD. One lyrist struggles daily with a very seriously debilitating disease which no doubt is probably where the ray of hope shines from throughout this “IN THE DARKNESS” CD. Accelerator also created all the artwork, which is an electrifying modern take on Rodin’s, “The Thinker” with a spiritual Twist. If this is a taste of what this true artist can do - bring on the next CD!!!