Because music that does not make you think or feel, music that just hovers and never gets into your soul means nothing. Mae's music means a lot to many people. She can deal with the classics with amazing technique and vivacity, as was demonstrated in her previous albums. Storm is a stormy album. It is provocative as she likes to be.
Storm incorporates many musical worlds.
It has Bach, Vivaldi and Offenbach in ways classical music buffs might find difficult to recognize. But Mae depicts the summer haze and the storm in Vivaldi's Four Seasons, for example, in a most evocative manner. Her version of the Offenbach Cancan is charming, and her modern improvisation of Bach is inspired. Here, she is more serene, more subdued, more calm and less the angry youth who would take the world apart. These numbers are very touching, especially when, within this world music aura, Mae's violin suddenly soars with pure classical beauty.