Tubularman
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Posted: Sep. 28 2005, 12:30 |
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Hmm dont seems like no one like this album i feel. Of course someone do, but mike have done something new and people are screaming... Well..
What can i complain? hmmm If i should really set my finger on it. I must say that "First steps" disappoint me. Its too long. It would be more great if it had a shorter time. I could wish that he compressed it more and then add "daliphant" at the end. I really dunno why he did jumped over that beautiful perfect solo.. Maybe he have other plans for it.. First steps have many good sounds but from 2:46 -> 6:15 is tiresome. Very tiresome! But after this part its loovely!! So this track i will exerpt self.
"Closer" is a little boring or without soul. But i will wait to say more baout thats song until i have heard the bagpipe version.
Thanks to the u-myx format i have made my own "Our father", i took some of those computer vocals away. I prefer the whispering vocals then the strong (if you understand?) "Our father". This song can be very good without so many "OOOOOOUUURRR FAAATHER!!" I also took away some piano. This gave me a better song and now i love it more! I remember my first listening to this song thanks to them who made it available on the net. At that time a loved it but i must get bored with it until now he he.. (the dark side of listening to a song from a upcomming album before you have it) But for that , i dont care! This made me know the song better and helped me to make a good u-myx mix.
The rest of LIGHT is very good, and just my taste of what i love mike is doing. Maybe there is not screeeamming guitars, but that we can expect either. This is not a rock album, but a chill catogory album. Maybe L + S miss something tres lunas had, but i find it nice and cocy. I just love "Angelique" its a slow motion beautiful piece of what mike really can do. This piano is plain and simple (in a positiv way) On my u-myx mix i exerpt it to 3:42. I took the drums almost away and in some moments its only guitars and bass. If you turn up the bass "Angelique" it will become in a completely different song. Take away the drums too and will be more easy to listen at. "Blackbird" and "Rocky" is both lovely! Dream your self away like you are running down a forrest and see the sun shine behind the tree tops. "Gate" is something for it self, a lovely song. I liek what he have done with the vocals. This must depend of what taste of music you like or not. Either you love or you hate it... But its something peace over this. I imagine a gate, you are standing on the dark side and look over the green peace full garden. (this make me warm and want me to hear it again and again) And the "Sunset".... This can make me cry. In one word! Perfect! Good well done mike! One of my mike favorite songs allready! This piece have all what he can do.
Now over to SHADE
I wonder what cd i prefer.. the light one or shade one.. The problem with this album i feel, is that the shade cd is not dark. I thought it might have more dark songs...seens its a light and shade one... But any way its a okey cd, this SHADE. The songs to complain on might be "Slipstream".. This is one song i have problem to like really. Its just so noisy.. After having the album and u-myx mix i can see it have to many sounds. This x-files sound i drop out I started it with only main keys and let this x files sound fade in more carefully. Then let it have some drums.. After 2:21 i only used the voices (this uuuuuoooohhhooooooo sound) then after add some other effects. No drums or loops after this. Just a slow sound that goes on to the end. This is much better!!! At the end its only piano's. (and this slipstream voice) i dont like it.. Did at the first but its not my taste! Now i can like slipstream.. thanks again for u-myx thing.
"Quicksilver" i do like very much... This one has life. I love the dalphins sounds at the end. This makes a mysterius sound and make me want to swim down to the dark blue ocean and see the waterdarkness. (With u-myx this song is the most exiting song to mix i think. This can be a short lovely peace full song or it can be a really dance version. Its really fun to make this personally mixes. Would be fun to do this with other albums) "Resolution" is a strong song. This have power and the way its buliding up is really cool. Another version of tres lunas "Misty", if you listen closely to the guitar at 0:48 "resolution" you will hear Misty (like it starts).
One of my favorite is "Surfing" if he did more songs like this it would be a perfect album!! This song i fall in love with and i have it on my mind all the time "singing surfing surfing........." I have been lucky to have the radio edit to, and its very good too! "tears from the angel" the same i feel about surfing! Its lovely! Both represent huge good guitars solo's and they are both very well done! perfect starts and ends! make me listen to them again and again and they hostage my ears and mind. Ilove them!!
"Romance" a quite Millenium bell melody. This is ok! I dont hate it really, everytime it comes i think "yes". Remain me of the girl group "Bond". They make music in this style. (like classic music into violin and techno) Some one heard them? "Ringscape" is huge! Ringscape have a clow of clear warm guitar. This orgel i found strange at first but it models a beautiful song. I remember first discovered tres luans II version "Snow cavern flight" and had a wish for this song on a official Tres lunas II (that not never came he he) But its there now, on L + S. And thats fine, thanks Mike!
Then the last brick in the wall. Or the last trance on the album This i lovely, but i dont understand?? like tati says.. Where is the more uptempo version?? This have confused me a little.. Do any one else have the other version??
No bonus on my album either...
I wonder if mike have someone else songs to add on the singles?? If there will be some? maybe there are some new stuff there.. Just a thought!
This album is not perfect, but its lovely also. Better then Tres lunas? i dont know.. Maybe this album should be tres luans II, that i could lived with. Without tres luans its the best album after Tb III
thats the only thing i know! Thank you mike for this dobbel album, i really liked it! Looking forward to see a new album. But please add a little more intrumental and human voice and it will be perfect!
Tubular man
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