Sir Mustapha
Group: Musicians
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Posted: April 13 2009, 12:50 |
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Quote (nightspore @ April 12 2009, 19:41) | That's silly - the last albums have all been radical departures from what he's done before. In fact, none of the albums is alike: Light and Shade is nothing like Voyager which is nothing like Earth Moving. |
I'm not so sure. The electronic textures in Light + Shade were already explored on The Songs of Distant Earth; Voyager is just Ommadawn minus the intelligence; Guitars only has the occasional novelty factor. I think the last time he really tried something new and different, before Music of the Spheres, was on The Songs of Distant Earth. And like I said, the impact of Music of the Spheres is dampened right at the start; instead of getting the sheer shock of hearing a Mike Olfield piece not merely "arranged" but WRITTEN for orchestra, the feeling you get is "oh, look, it's Tubular Bells, now played on strings (didn't they do that before already?)". And, well, even after the album starts breaking into new and exciting territory, it goes back to Tubular Bells before the finale.
By "new and radical", I mean, really. Push the reset button. For good. Reinvention. Maybe he just doesn't wanna do that, and if that's the case, there's nothing wrong. It's his career, and it's he who must be happy with it, not me. I've got Stereolab. (*pops on headphones* *dum dum DA dum dum dum DA dum dum dum DA dum dum dum DA dum dum dum DA dum dum dum DA dum dum dum*)
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