nightspore
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Posted: July 08 2008, 00:54 |
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Quote (Bassman @ July 07 2008, 20:49) | listened a bit more carefully than usual to the early version of "Sunlight Shining Through Cloud". Man, the rap was disorienting, but it wasn't at all horrible if you cast off the constrictive shackles of what we want our traditional Oldfield music to sound like. |
I don't think there's a musical genre that Mike hasn't explored.
I agree with you about The Millennium Bell, Bassman. My favourites are "Amber Light", "Peace on Earth", and "Santa Maria". What gives "Sunlight Shining Through Cloud" a boost, I think, is Mike's use of the "Amazing Grace" poem. What a pity he so seldom used such literary works. (I know he did in Incantations with "Hiawatha", but the poem is recited more like a mantra there, rather than as something that the music will reflect and interpret.) The clever thing about "Sunlight..." is that the spoken, rap words give the music a confessional, very personal feeling, which, given the subject matter, is entirely appropriate. (Verdi created a similar "spoken word" effect in La Traviata, where Violetta, dying, expresses her deepest feelings.)
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