" data-original-title="" title="">Darryl Yokley's Sound Reformation recordings have always revealed a keen compositional sense for sound, mood-setting melodies that tell a story. One could easily describe his writing and playing style as lyrical, creating a narrative of sound without actual vocal or spoken word participation. Imagine then, a suite of tunes written lyrically in terms of melody, adding spoken word art inspired from one of the classic novels in literary history. Imagine even further, those words leaping from the pages of the Nobel-winning masterpiece from the late Colombian author Gabriel Garc��a Marquez, "Cien A?os de Soledad," or One Hundred Years of Solitude. You would then have a grasp of what Yokley is taking on in his deep dive into his third release, Un Mundo en Soledad

Yokley, like many fascinated with Garica-Marquez' work, and in this case, his portrayal of the near paradise of Macondo, had well prepared himself for the venture, having consumed the novel five times over his life journey that began in his formative years and spilled into adulthood and his life as a professional musician. The one inevitable fact retrieved from the first reading is discovered in the closing pages of the masterpiece, when the reader is made aware that the narrator of this story that traverses generations of the Buend��a family is, in fact, the main character, Melqu��ades, the central figure of the story who is a gypsy who visits Macondo and befriends its founder, Jose Arcadio Buend��a. He is a mysterious, wise and solitary character. With Yokley's decision to utilize narration directly from the novel into his music, he inevitably raises the specter of the vision of Melquad��es. Each segment of the album's twelve pieces is adorned by narrative phrases from him or another central character of Garcia-Marquez' masterpiece, Remedios La Bella. Melqu��ades is performed by Alfonso Cay��n, and Remedios by Sumire Yokley.

The music swings stylistically like a pendulum and is performed by a talented band that includes Grammy-nominated pianist