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Posted: Sep. 15 2007, 14:32 |
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I find it completely impossible to rank Mike's albums these days... I have my favourites that I listen to more than the others, but to put them in any specific order is impossible. Besides, this being so new album (heck, it's not even out yet :-)) it is easy to get over-enthusiastic and put it on a pedestal just because it is well over your expectations.
However, I have listened to the album more than a dozen times by now, and it is - and will definitely be - among my very favourites even after the newcomer's shine wears out. Classical/Orchestral music in general is right up my alley. I listen to film scores on regular basis, and I couldn't have been happier when I heard that Mike was going to compose an orchestral work. I really do enjoy his electric guitar playing, but for me that has always been secondary. He is first and foremost a composer, and a genius at that as far as I can judge such things, and only after that, to me, he is a musician. What I love in good music is primarily composition and arrangement. Skillful and suitable playing is important, too, but it comes second.
Tres Lunas and Light + Shade, while I do like many moments in them, seemed to me to be works of a composer not really having the thrive anymore, releasing an album just because it is expected of him. MOTS represents to me Mike's comeback - with it he proves that he still has the inspiration and emotional output shown in e.g. Ommadawn and Amarok.
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