equinoxe
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Posted: Oct. 31 2011, 02:05 |
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"Five Miles Out" is a perfect album without any weak moments. "Taurus II" is for me one of the best instrumental pieces, Oldfield made ever. We have in here not only wide range of instruments but above all we have a perfectly arranged musical structure that sound like a story. Very clever, and intelligent music. We have no chances to listen this days a music of that quality. No chances. Todays music is so flat, no dynamics, no ideas, and i'm talking about all music, from pop, rock to a new future electronic music. Ofcourse there are exceptions but not many.
Returning to FMO, i think, Mike has used the best fuzz guitar effect of all albums. The sounding of those screaming solos like on 1:06, 1:19 to 1:39, the section from 3:05 (amazing combination of hard rock riffs, vocoder, horns, guitar solos and just maginificent mixture of robotic linn drumm, shakers and real percussion) or 13:45.
Just love the using of bagpipes throughout entire album. It's curious because here, in contrast to "Ommadawn" the bagpipes was used like an addition to a hard rock feeling, and therefore those pipes has very angry, sharp and aggressive sounding, not only peacefull - brilliant! Also like the way Mike is using the vocoder - as an instrument device.
Next thing a like about this album is a combination of real drums with a synthetic ones. It's make this album very unique. The begining of "Taurus II" is very robotic when linn drum start the very first seconds and that slowly the real drums, hi-hats and kettle-drums are entering together. On 3:05 we have first the basic linn drum rhythm and on 3:19 the real drums are entering (Morris Pert?). Like also those shakers working on 3:05. Not sure but think those are also from linn drumm.
The track has incredible dynamics. It has silent motifs passing to the louder. Sudden changes of quite and loud with all that sharp rock sounding makes it amazing dynamics.
I'am not sure that track is underrated. This is one of Mike's music faces. This album is the most progressive and hard-rock album made by him (i know that "Crises" was supposed to be the most hard-rock album, but in my opinion it isn't). Every fan likes one album more than other for some reasons. We can choose from peacefull chillout melodies to an angry hard riffs.
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