
What Music Scholars and Press are Saying About Sunday
A collection of press quotes and critical reflections on the Sunday Project - where memory becomes melody.
"Slam takes the listener through 20 different stories—almost 20 different lives...With Sunday she succeeds.”— Rhonda Rizzo, No Dead Guys
"This is not background noise...I am going to recommend that my audience listen to the whole thing."—Harmonious World/Hilary Seabrook
"It truly is a work of art...This album goes much deeper than that..Sunday isn’t casual background music”— Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano
“An exploration of perception itself...The motif itself becomes something of a compass of the musical heart” — Jonathan Widran, The JW Vibe
“A passacaglia about a passacaglia...The pianistic differences, combined with adherence to the score, make the hermeneutic activity audible.”— Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music, Fordham University; musicologist, composer, and author
"These practices radically altered the perception and shaping of time." — Susan McClary, Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University
"A constructed environment inside a Baroque ground is perfectly explicable in ecological terms." — Eric Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford
"Music offers us the paradox of simultaneous listening/feeling what it would be like to have such an effect on others." — Arnie Cox, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Aural Skills, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
"I think you are observing something important." — Jonathan Berger, Denning Family Provostial Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University
"Repetition is the fundamental mechanism of music perception." — Bret Aarden, Music cognition researcher; PhD in Music, The Ohio State University
“Sunday Jazz Ballad” is the heartbeat of the Sunday album – its emotional turning point. It’s a conceptual piano-driven narrative where the breath of the 21st century weaves through shadows of 1720 – Handel’s Passacaglia (in Halvorsen’s arrangement). Until this track, it was all silence, reflection, minimalism. Memory, time, presence. And then – a shift.
- VoxWaveMag
“The lyrics arrive like a revelation – after a long pause, like a message from those who only return on Sundays. Then vanish.”
— VoxWaveMag
"For lovers of more sophisticated sounds.... an introspective song of conceptual sounds that raises our skin... proposal that immerses itself between memory and loss, while the sound weaves a sense of melancholy, by portraying a love that persists in the memory of the protagonist...This spiritual gem is something you can't let go of if you're a lover of organic and acoustic rhythms that immerse us in acoustic auras. Ultimately, this song is perfect to connect with our soul." Indiedream.com
"The song is calm, but the emotion quietly explodes. The piano...soft, jazzy but unforced,... vocals enter like someone finally daring to speak after years of holding it in...a voice in this song feels like a letter that was never sent...song honors grief without the drama. Quiet, deep, but sincere. Perfect for those who are trying to understand a kind of loss that creeps in slowly, week by week." ParaPop
"The lyrics glide as if we’re reading a forgotten diary, one that only gets opened on Sundays. The contrast between the male voice—soft, almost timid—and the jazzy base creates a cinematic atmosphere. I could almost see the scene: an empty room, a forgotten warm cup, light filtering through the curtain. Everything feels restrained, as if at any moment something might break. "Even the mirror forgets his face”... that line left me frozen...describes the struggle to hold onto someone in memory, when even the reflection gives up." Expansion Radial
"The auditory exploration that " Sunday Jazz Ballad " will offer you will be a musical satisfaction expressed through exceptional Jazz instrumental nuances, especially by a rhythmic base provided by the stupendous performance of the piano, which together with the other elements that make up this production will create a soft, delicate atmosphere that will be like a caress for your fibers in a more than brilliant way, a completely entertaining musical moment.
For me, it was an instant hit, capturing my attention from the first few seconds, and more than anything, instilling a distinct delight in matters of the genre. Urban Fu$e 's vocals are delivered in a comforting, masculine tone and with a strong emotional charge, reinforced by the poetic verses he delivers, giving fluidity to a narrative that navigates between memory, time, and presence—factors that have had a sensational impact on my introspection!" Rockola Indie