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Heaven's Hill

by Derek Porter

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folk guitar derek americana porter

9 tracks

19:06

1	Lethe, West Virginia	1:48
2	Moon Song	2:13
3	By the River	1:12
4	Shamayim	1:52
5	Sun Song	3:07
6	Mars, Kentucky	1:52
7	City Hall	2:17
8	Light Circles	2:19
9	Fixed Stars	2:26

Album description

All songs composed and performed by Derek Porter.

This song cycle represents one half of Heaven's Hill. Production has begun on its visual counterpart, a short animated film depicting a man and a woman's journey through the otherworldly realm of 1960s rural West Virginia and Kentucky.

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kadzbiz

Can't decide on this album

17/06/09

Some interesting pieces here. I liked the instrumentation on most of the songs, but I felt let down with the vocals, or lack of vocals altogether. I got the impression that the album was created as a joke because the pieces definitely have a lot of movement for being a little longer and open for lyrics.

"Lethe, West Virginia" is toylike, like it's a bunch of kids in a classroom playing. "Moon Song" is a nice track, but short and monotonous. "By the River" is strange with it's tinkly xylophone. "Shamayim" has a nice sound when all the bits get going, but I couldn't take the vocals at all. "Sun Song" was too much like "Moon Song", again with annoying vocals. I liked the last half of "Mars, Kentucky", but it too was lacking substance of a good lyric. "City Hall" again had the tinkling xylophone that made it childish. "Light Circles" sounded like a pre-school experiment. "Fixed Stars" had some good guitar, but nothing else, it was so empty.

I don't know. Maybe I had this album all wrong. If it's aimed at young kids, then maybe it's just right, but for us grown ups, I think the pieces have so much potential, but need more ooomphf and some good lyrics.