tamas
Group: Members
Posts: 25
Joined: Dec. 1999 |
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Posted: Dec. 13 1999, 06:47 |
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Dear Mike!
Although I fear you will never read my letter, I have to address it to you personnally. I was a fun of your music since 1983, age of 13. We have never met, but you were always one of my best friend - through your music you were always with me, and I have to thank you some of the most catharthic moments in my life. Your music was a very important inspiration form for me, and my three fantasy novels, which were published in the 90's in Hungary, and were quite a great success, could not have been born without your help. Howewer I am looking in despair the slow metamorhopse of your music since the "Songs of the Distant Earth". Your compositions were always some kind of music "ballads", "legends" with very strong narrative construction, full of complex emotional layers, but all of this had slowly disappeared: today they are fragments, fragments of emotions, without any depths, without inner consistence. I was shocked when I have heard first the techno rhythms of the Tubular Bells III. I am not against the techno, I really like ACID music, but this style has nothing to do with your music. Your music is - or at least it was - constructed from emotions. Techno is against emotions. To speak about emotions in a non-emotional way? What kind of paradox it is??? After the TBIII I though this tragic mutation should never be repeated again, and I was waiting really very-very much the Milleneum Bell. But I was shocked again - especially shocked by the final track. One of the strongest part of your music was always the cathartic endings - the final track was even cathartic on the TBIII (it was the only really genious part of that album). But what is that terrible techno-mutation on the end of the M.B.? What is it? What does that D.J.Pipi do with your music? Mike, what had happended to you? How could you let your music to be sterilized by the ultraviolent rays of the Ibizian sun? In 1990 you wanted to show the people that there are still alternatives in the music, so you made AMAROK. It was one of your gratest works, and one of the most genious music of the last few decades. Today we need much more a new AMAROK, than we needed 9 years ago. Much much more.... But what we had got instead of this? How could you call the T.M.B. your best work? How could anybody be so blind and deaf to praise it? Mike, you made a long, and beautiful journey since 1973. You have seen much things, and showed us even more, but I fear you have lost something on that journey. Will you ever be able to find it again? Maybe the legend of the Bells is over for ever? We do not want any more DJ Pipi-s, DJ Pepe-s, DJ. Pipo-s, DJ. Popo-s, DJ. Etc-s! We do not want the Legend of the Bells to be destructed, to be desacralised! Mike, maybe I am nobody to giving you advices, but I suggest you go to the forest on a mysty, silent day, sit on a tree trunk, close your eyes, listen to the birds and the song of the wind, and think it over. Think it over very deeply.
Tamas Beregi
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