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Posted: Mar. 07 2008, 02:05

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDg3ULBtezI
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Posted: Mar. 07 2008, 16:54

Nice clip - just wondering who the MC is?

Thanks

Edit - ah - it's Viv  :cool:
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Posted: May 26 2008, 00:21

I nominate this as 'Most Tasteful MO Video'. 10/10

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Posted: May 26 2008, 18:17

@ Sweetpea, I fully agree. The most tasteful one, and also one of the most stylish, "North Point" from TWC being a close second. :)

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Posted: May 27 2008, 20:04

Sir Rawlinson would approve. Always good to see these Olivier.

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Posted: Jan. 23 2009, 16:58

I'd like to perfect that side-to-side-finger-snappin move the vocalists are doing at 2:32. They look like real hep cats, there.

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Posted: July 31 2009, 11:13

WOW! Why isn't this on a DVD I can buy?

...totally blown away....
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Posted: Mar. 10 2010, 07:49

I hate to be the voice of dissent, but I think this is an awful video! Who wants to associate this music with crawling insects, or floating musical instruments a la the beginning of the old Mickey Mouse Club? In my opinion Mike's music works best when it is set against wild, majestic landscapes, oceans, futuristic cities, space.
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Posted: Mar. 10 2010, 18:09

@ nightspore: those aren't bugs, they're notes. I have no idea about the concept of the video, but, as the music is so abstract than its subject cannot be anything else than music itself (especially with the multiple instruments played by Mike in the piece), I guess that the video was intented as a visual representation of music. From that point of view it works greatly and, I repeat, it's very stylish, but of course that's just my view of it. I also guess that Mike's music works well with wide-open landscapes, as you say, for the very same reason, i.e. that most of it is abstract. And because of the fact that it's abstract, the pictures that it may conjure up in anyone's mind (if any) vary from person to person. For example, when I hear "Misty" (as mentioned in another topic) I don't think about mist, I think about a pleasant walk on the beach, barefoot, at night. :) And when I hear "Turtle Island" - apart from associating it with the nice scene from the game, of course - I feel like I'm in a small café somewhere in Spain, again late at night... they're just about near closing time, and there's a guitarist, a keyboardist and a saxophonist having a go at their last tune, before they go to bed. :) So, I think that sometimes videos (beyond their purely promotional purposes) are made to give people some kind of springboard to build their own visual fantasies when they hear a piece of music. The only trouble is that sometimes a video may end up imposing its own imagery on a song, and this is not really nice, IMHO.

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Posted: Mar. 10 2010, 18:44

Quote (Ugo @ Mar. 10 2010, 18:09)
:) And when I hear "Turtle Island" - apart from associating it with the nice scene from the game, of course - I feel like I'm in a small café somewhere in Spain, again late at night

Hi Ugo, I'd get quite cross if I ended up associating "Turtle Island" with cafes, which I hate... At the moment I associate it with a beautiful tropical beach in North Queensland, with a similar name.

I take your point about the video of "The Bell", but I still don't like it. And I still think those musical notes look like ants!  :p
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Posted: Mar. 11 2010, 02:10

Quote (HRFanUSA @ July 31 2009, 17:13)
WOW! Why isn't this on a DVD I can buy?

...totally blown away....

No, the video hasn't been released on DVD. All the videos under Warner license still wait to see the light of day on DVD including
Sentinel, Tattoo (both versions), Let There Be Light (Short Version, Long Version, BT Mix), Hibernaculum, Women Of Ireland (two versions), Man In The Rain and To Be Free.

C'mon Warner!

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Posted: Mar. 11 2010, 13:56

Cute. Perhaps a little too cute. Great CD tho. Whatever.....

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Posted: Mar. 11 2010, 20:20

Quote (Scatterplot @ Mar. 11 2010, 13:56)
Cute. Perhaps a little too cute.

Yes. I think the reason those musical notes remind me of ants is they behave very much like the ants in Tr3s Lunas.
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