'Invaded' was my favourite track, with its jazzy saxophone soloing and 7/8 time. Great stuff! The rest of the music had a dreamy ambiance--tasty.
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Wow, what an impressive composition!
I liked your 5th concerto already a lot, but on first and second listening this new one sounds even better. Again I am reminded of Shostakovich in a very positive way: like his piano concertos, your music is also intelligent, smart and ambivalent: serious and humorous, dark and light at the same time.
The piano score with its surprising twists and evolving story lines is fabulous and soulful. The dominant role of percussion on the orchestral side creates military parade or battle drama type associations, symbolizing powerful external forces and conditions to be faced by the brave even if bewildered individual soul as expressed through the piano. Like with any good music there is really no need for too explicit interpretations as the magical language of music communicates whatever information it needs to communicate.
The electronic orchestration is good enough to provide a pleasant listening experience, but as I said already about your previous work, music of this quality would really deserve to be played by a real symphonic orchestra with all of its expressive potential and rich, nuanced sound. I hope some orchestra will eventually find your music and perform and record it!
Excellent work, monsieur Coedes!
Hi Morris,
I did not take to album as a whole. It had some nice tracks, Back in the Day, the title track, Dolphins with Sharks. I would add more piano as it worked nicely in the track Evening in the Park.
I will listen to the album again at a later date to see if it grows on me.
John
Really enjoyed this work of poetry very much. The voice and words, so full of emotion. My favorite is the last piece, Meridians of Culture. Such a perfect choice of music to fit the poetry and voice. Great job Brenda !! Beautiful artwork also. !
Incredible ambient/drone. Very intelligent use of distortion, well worth the download!
Its was'nt too oriental. Its more like classic industrial rock. First song Punish is great, melody is cool but its not oriental at all. Second song blinded and third song see you in hell had a oriental style percussion and melody. And i like flute melody on blinded. maybe mistake is only on music genre, you need to add more oriental sound and melody if want to call it oriental. but if you want to keep like this, you should change the music genre.
I must say, this album is very nice. Especially "This beautiful machine", I love the vocals and the main riff there.
Keep it up!
Such a culmination of instrumental styles I've not seen since the days of Larry Fast & Synergy!
Each song inspired, each song different in intent and orchestration, and yet fitting together!
Zero Project is definately inline for greatness! We all should be thankful that this work has been placed here for our aural enjoyment. Thank you ever so much for doing that for us!
This album came recommended by another memeber, and orangepurple, I thank you!
Now, the tunes vary in intensity and originality! Some sound vaguely familiar; Sade-esque in many ways.
PEace opens this collection of wintry songs with a hint that it is a holiday season album. Finishing with Peace On Earth fulfills the intent of this colaboration!
Would like to hear more from this abstract team in the future.
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