Trinidad
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Posted: Dec. 19 2007, 17:02 |
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A late response, I'm not really having much time these days.
Quote (Alan D @ Dec. 09 2007, 11:31) | Quote (Trinidad @ Dec. 09 2007 @ 00:09)) | I know that's not the intention, but when people say this it sounds to me as saying that artists are great because they re-use their material. |
But importantly, that isn't what I'm saying, Trinidad, and indeed I think that would be nonsense. |
Of course, I know it. I think I didn't express myself clearly. There're times when our subconscious takes an idea and turns it upside down, and even though we know the exact meaning of it, our mind can play a dirty trick on us, and the idea "reusing old material is something great artists do" can be one of those ideas. I just wanted to stress exactly what you've said, that there's nothing bad, but also nothing good, in principle, with using old material.
Quote | The only question that matters is whether MOTS is sufficently exploratory to be a satisfying work of art on its own terms, not on whether some of its subjects or themes are familiar. It sounds as though you, Trinidad, think it doesn't quite manage it |
I don't think it doesn't manage to be a satisfying work. I think it's a good album - not a great one, not a very good one, but not a bad one. But still I had bigger expectations about it, and that's due to what Mike said about it time ago: "back to the roots", "not trying to be this or that", "me doing my music", "orchestral work", ... it looked like something GREAT. But at the end, what I think it doesn't manage to, is to measure up to his words, as I understood them. I just don't find it as satisfying as I expected. But, anyway, I think my expectations have been fulfilled just two or three times in my life .
And when I said "I'm sad", I didn't mean I was sad with the album itself, but with it put in a context (I think it's also interesting to do so): Mike seems to be doing simpler albums each day (I'm not saying that they've been a piece of cake, of course), he is selling a big part of his musical stuff, the probabilities of MOTS being his last album are bigger than ever, ......, plus the (for me, surprising) use of ideas from Tubular Bells in the new album, again. He can still create GREAT things, but, taking everything into account, I think he just wants to save the time and effort needed, and use it for other things. I can't criticize him for that, anyway.
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