Nice simple orchestration for the beginning of Fantasy, then in comes that aforementioned strong drum beat, followed by bass, classic start up. It builds well with synthetic choirs of angels, making it nice and bright in outlook. But then a fantasy should be, if you are going to be prone to one. Dark ones are all very well but you require a different sense of fortitude to forbear. Nice end piece, finishes off well with a soft landing, although it didn't get too out of hand.
Wind Fields has that same ambience underlying the score. The upper layers differ and are more obvious and in control of the flow of the track, the drums and bass taking their place. Again there is due deference to the style in the form of its melodiousness, right down the middle. Mood food essentially and done well by containing its focus on a particular style and maintaining it.
The overall feel of the album, as little as it is, remains paramount and Milky Way presents the listener with the same thing in a different way, the synth layers are a little wilder, a touch more exuberant, well-controlled and essentially the same thing in a different way, just milky. A little more experimentation would engender a little more depth, and we are talking about Deep Fields.
And here we are at the crux, the conjunction of the depth of these pieces of music. It's there in word, and it manages it to a degree, but there is a limit that this particular album seems willing to go to and stop there at a certain point. If that's a reflection upon self-reflection, it comes over as a little superficial, not really plumbing the psyche, more asking oneself a reasonable question about yourself or your situation as you look in the mirror of your soul. Its simply a bounded system with its limitations, which is fine, though not really deep space. More like deepish.
Crazy Smile, the final and by far the most interesting and unfortunately shortest track, kind of proves a point to me as a listener. That point is that the depth is there potentially and best achieved with a craziness in mind. If that's the way it works better, I feel to concentrate on that attitude to add that extra special bit of magic would produce an overall improvement and profundity. Having said all that, not a bad album at all. Like the last best!-)
▼
This text is not available in your chosen language, we are displaying it in its original language.
