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  • Time Traveler

    Time Traveler

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    2002 or the wonderfully talented duo of Randy and Pamela Copus have released their 2024 album Time Traveller, a small masterpiece in ambient music, which in composition and styles spans the years since their first release Wings in 1992.

    Since those early years their distinctive sound has changed, influenced by many varying style of music being incorporated into their compositions. The most notable over the past eight years is, the addition of their daughter Sarah to the group, a young, multitalented performer within her own standing.

    Time Traveller takes a whimsical journey across the seas of time in a beautiful craft woven of magic and gossamer, to discover destinations yet unfound. Casting off with The Morning Breeze, a rich and sumptuous piece of violin, guitar and flute the sails are set, the delicate craft then to be led by Falling Stars, charting a course of harp, soft percussion and soft ambient wash.

    Time flows by and the Seasons Fade floating by on delicate colours of change, each season captured in small but perfect segments woven into one singular thread created with the use of harp, piano, synth and guitar.

    Love of my life is gently discovered with the use of flute, piano and washes of sound in an etheric song of pure romance, hinting at a time long ago when romance was celebrated in heartfelt song and verse.

    Is the Time Traveler the one of dreams and mystery or a nebulous form that is sought in reflective moments in time? Only you, the journeyman will know before The End of the Journey arrives in dulcet tones, the little craft coming safely into a world Beyond the Veil; a place peace and great beauty.

    But the Essence of a Dream is palpable, floating tantalisingly within recall, but distant, captured in a dreamy, almost mesmeric song.   Adrift in Memory offers a safe haven to reflect, to return to years past in acceptance and wonder before the final song Where Are You is discovered; a song of lightness, clear purpose and perfect for returning the soul to the mortal realm, guided by the pure voice of an angel.

    Time Traveler is a story in song which takes the emotions of the listener on a journey into a world of wonderment, peace and reflection. Whether 2002 intended the music to have such a profound effect is unknown, but the emotion and pure love encapsulated within each song will make this a deeply personal time of enjoyment and reflection, as the music softly wraps you in a gentle barque upon which to sail the seas of life.

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  • The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of Covid

    The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of Covid

    In 2019 Ken Halley, The One Who Got Away, had the next twelve months planned out, almost down to the last dollar and detail. That was before the world as he and everyone else knew it changed, with the advent to COVID -19.

    Undaunted, he took a long view of his plans and decided that as he was heading out to the small nations of the Caribbean Sea, via Cuba with a few small stops on the way through, the challenge of travelling in a what was then, a slightly changed world would be worth it. He headed out to see if his reading and expectation of these new frontiers lived up to speculation and anticipation.

    Leaving Australia on 21 February 2020, he intended to return exactly one year later, but fate, as it so often does was to intervene in so many ways, eventually bringing him home to Australia 10 months later, older, wiser and very pleased to place his feet, or at least his wheelchair wheels, firmly on Australian ground.

    Arriving in Canada as his first stop, he found conditions more or less as expected. He met with old friends before moving on to Cuba, the beginning of his adventures where he was to confront the reality and the very real challenges of travelling in a country that was ill equipped to deal with wheelchair travelers, let alone the Corona virus.

    A very experienced traveler of more than 30 years traveling with his wheelchair, Ken had learned to be able to adjust to situations as they arose, changing plans as necessity dictated and still being able to accomplish his desired objective.

    But what he had not been able to factor in was the effect COVID was to have on the small nations he would be visiting, the total disorganization that was to be found on Barbados and in several other nations. The fear of the locals being caught should they break curfew, and the constantly changing rules as to swab tests, quarantine and the general lack of accommodation, was constant and exhausting.

    Along his journey he met many wonderful people who, time after time helped him along the way, and the obstruction of the government officials to so many areas became an exercise in not getting involved in local politics. Well almost not getting involved in local politics! He also became very familiar with the frustration of booking onward flights only to have them cancelled time after time.

    Up until he was unable to rendezvous with his delivery of medical requirements, organized down to the last detail, things although not going smoothly, were still allowing him to see a little of the many places he had always wondered about. Until he could not, and things changed dramatically.

    A well-read journalist and author, Ken Halley’s travel memoir The One That Got Away makes fascinating reading in a time when for many, travel has become a thing of the past, any travel is still fraught with very real challenges, lock downs, swab testing and the possibility of quarantining, and that is simply to go from State to State in Australia, let alone the anywhere in the World, is ever present.

    Ironically now the world is opening up a little at the end of 2021, much of what Ken Halley experienced is still very much a reality; travel anywhere is fraught with instant change, Countries are now grappling with the still largely unknown effects of the new Omnicom strain and life, let alone life of the traveler, is still an ever changing kaleidoscope.