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| Genesis / Yes / Sharakan / Baden-Powell and Vincius by Zsenicorpse 07/22/2006, 4:03pm PDT | ||||
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| I think I will accompany these with blurbs from reviews of the albums. Blurbs I disagree with!
Genesis: Trespass ‘Trespass’ might’ve been better with a less flimsy production and a few more tracks with the direct impact of the ‘The Knife’, but it still achieves a unique mood independent of the rest of the band's discography. Yes: Fragile This somewhat fragmented disc contains some excellent material, divided into two groups: "solo" works and band compositions. The solo works are short pieces written by a single bandmember. Of these, Jon Anderson's vocal dub-fest, "We Have Heaven" is the weakest, along with Wakeman's overly tasteful (read: dull) interpretation of a part of the third movement from Brahms' 4th symphony. Sharakan: Music of Medieval Armenia Technically, most of these works are called "chants," but these seem much less sacred and austere than the music on volume one. There's instrumental accompaniment on nearly every song, and the instruments seem just as important as the vocals for the most part. Likewise, the subject matter here seems a bit more "earthy," even pagan-esque, with most songs referencing nature (like "Chinar es" or "You are a plane tree"). These nature references are probably metaphorical, but the referent could be God or it could be a lover. Of course, I don't speak Armenian, so I learned this stuff by studying the liner notes. Zseni adds: I was really pissed off there wasn't more music in FFX like the mysterious chant of the fayth, which, along with the elaborate religious culture which dressed up the game, was the thing that really made it worth playing. Anyway, I think of this album as being full of FFX holdovers, stuff that was a little too ethnic to include with the real soundtrack. Baden Powell e Vinicius: Os Afros Sambas No review blurb. :( Nobody wants to shut up long enough to review the album, which is, by the way, great. |
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