Alan D
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Posted: Sep. 18 2006, 03:54 |
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Well, it's true that most of the music is 'The Millenium Bell', which most of us think isn't Mike's best work. But here in this DVD you're seeing and hearing it in the context it was written for, instead of being exposed to the clinical and unforgiving light of a studio recording process as it is on the album.
I think it was OK to go over the top at the turn of the Millennia. It was a time for fireworks, and extravagant hopes - and this show presents the extravagant ideas behind the music of The Millennium Bell in their best light - not as great music in itself, but as one man's attempt to rise to a great occasion. The very fact that he hovers so close to failure (and is willing to risk that) is itself inspiring, for me.
I'm not particularly fond of music DVDs, but I love this show. And the grand climax, just after midnight has passed, of the wildly powerful, dangerous, and imaginatively staggering piece of music called Berlin 2000, is utterly awesome. I can't hear and watch without tears. I so wish I'd been there to see and hear it in person.
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