Revival

Revival is Sorin Pavelescu's ambient/ new age project. Born in Romania, Sorin Pavelesco moved to Montreal, Canada with his family when he was just 6-years old. His musical education began at age eight with piano lessons from his father. Over the next six years Sorin studied classical piano and the likes of Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky with a private tutor. Eager to learn another instrument, he also studied the classical guitar for two years and briefly flirted with an electric guitar and local rock bands in his early teens. Then at age 15 something magical happened: he discovered Tangerine Dream, Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre. He fell in love with electronic music and its vast sonic possibilities. The enthusiasm was so strong and genuine that his mother agreed to buy him his first analog synthesizer from the local pawn shop, a Korg Polysix, using the money she had set aside for his college education. He started making his own sounds and quickly began composing original material. Impressed by Sorin's passion and commitment to music, his father bought him a second keyboard (a Yamaha Portatone keyboard with cheesy on-board rhythms) and a Fostex 4-track machine to record his compositions. Over the next five years Sorin wrote hundreds of little songs which revealed his lyrical soul and a strong penchant for melody. In 2000 Sorin released "The Longest Dream" under the name Revival. An ambitious concept album combining spoken word, electronic and classical music, the album received accolades from all over the world. It reached no.15 on New Age International Charts in America and a few no.1 spots on European Radio Stations (Russia, Romania and Sweden to name a few), while a self-produced video for the single "La Fille de la Forêt" climbed to no.8 in Canada. Furthermore, two tracks from "The Longest Dream", "La Fille de la Forêt" and "The End Of Time" were chosen to appear on a US compilation of electronic music from new Romanian artists entitled "Noua Romanie". Interesting fact to note, the compilation was released by Earthtone Records, label owned by none other than Christopher Franke, ex-member of electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream, one of Sorin's chilhood heroes!