Thanks, much, to those who said I wrote a great review! I hope you liked the album, too. I've found their next two musical albums and, although they have a lot of nice stuff, they just aren't quite as good as this one.
I say, "musical albums" because a lot of their stuff tends to be that disco junk that gets used as a basis for others to add more electronics to at dances. No real music there. Just "boom tick, boom tick" with a few electronic elements added on.
ReviewThis album is GREAT to listen to at night with all (or most) of the lights out, especially in bed with someone you love, as long as they like this kind of stuff, too! There IS one track I tend to skip, though. Not because it's a bad track, the whole album is great. It's just that, the first two tracks spend nearly 20:00 getting you onto a nice mellow mood, then the third track starts with this loud alarm sound buzzing away for the first few moments and RIPS you right out of that mood!!
"Requiem" is a REALLY nice minor key piece! If you're into minor key stuff, this might even induce a tear from your eye! It's not sad, it's just done in such a way that it's quite strong, emotionally.
"The Belle Of Atlantis" has a really cool bass line to it that keeps switching back & forth. At the end of one line, there'll be two notes played one right after the other, at the end of the next line, you hear both notes played as one, at the end of the next line, those two notes are played separately again, but this time, there's a wider space between them and they're played off the beat!
"Singtree" is probably the most mellow piece on the album! One thing that helps make it that way is the sound. I don't think there is any tape hiss on it, but sure sounds like there's a lot! Also, although there's not much deep bass on it, it CAN shake things a bit. And that's from one of the much higher droning notes!
SPOILER ALERT! Don't read this next bit if you want to just experience the album for yourself and be surprised, but, "Liquid Sky" has two parts in it where it sounds like the tape it's recorded on slips partway off the heads! After a few bars, it goes back to normal.
They had 8:15 left on the CD, I wish they would've filled them!
Info on this says it was released in 1994, but my ex-fiancé had a copy in at least late `92!! I met her in Aug. `91 and we moved in together a few months later. We stayed in that apartment until April `93. It was in that apartment where we both first heard this album and fell in love with it! We played it almost every night when we went to bed. Apr. `93 we moved into a sublet that didn't last more than a month. I remember walking down the street from there with a friend I hadn't seen in a decade and she asked what I thought of David Koresh. He had just died in April `93. In May, we moved into a another that eventually became her apartment where she lived until we broke up in late `01 and she went back to India a year later. So, how can this be a `94 release when we had a copy at least as far back as late `92?
The Belle Of Atlantis 11:28
Singtree 6:20
Awaken Kundalini 6:42
Liquid Sky 8:50
The Open Path 9:02
Save The Whale 8:14
Requiem For A Lily 3:55
Flying Spirals 17:11
Total time 1:11:42