Alan D
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Posted: Feb. 14 2005, 12:44 |
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I've been listening to this almost every day for about 3 weeks now, unsure what to say about it, and still unsure - so let's see what comes out.
I'm not competent to comment on it in a technical sense, but I must say that the first 5 and a half minutes of this piece are so lovely that it would be hopeless for me to try to find words to describe it anyway. As the days have gone by, it's grown on me more and more. I love its melody, its gentle dreaminess, its gorgeous little choral hint of Ommadawn/Incantations. If it were released as a single, I'd buy it, and I'd play it to my friends until they were persuaded to buy it too.
My only reservation - and I doubt that this comment is of any use to you because it's purely subjective and in any case I'm finding it less obtrusive as time goes on - is that the in last 2 minutes it doesn't feel quite right. It seems like something stuck on the end to liven things up a bit, rather than a natural development of what's gone before. I don't know what causes this - I like the bell sound very much - and I like the idea of it taking on a more positive, buoyant mood towards the end - but the background stuff seems too ... too busy somehow - it sounds almost like a banjo - as though after sending us into a delightful dream, it's expecting us to get up and dance.
But to put this in perspective - those first five and a half minutes are really beautiful. I can't think of many pieces of music that I could play every day for three weeks without it getting stale - but this is one. On the contrary, I love it more as I get to know it better.
Thank you very much indeed.
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Not much to do with Ommadawn, but very cool anyway. 
