Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/03/89)
Really-From: motcid!marble!meadley@uunet.UU.NET (A. Meadley) Can anyone give an objective (or even a subjective) description of the German group, Freiheit, with special reference to their new album "Fantasy"? Also, the same info would be appreciated for Sarah McLachlan and her album "Touch". I have just bought the CD "Neverland" by Suzanne Ciani (on Private Music) and it is excellent. I suppose it fits into a New Age category, but it certainly lacks the monotony of much New Age music. The album is almost totally Ms. Ciani on her own, playing piano and various synthesizers. The music is extraordinarily beautiful and really has to be heard to be appreciated. (Doesn't all good music? ) Haunting, I think, would be a good description. As many of you will have realised by now, I am extremely fond of the English rock group The Enid. I have just received (by post from the UK) their CD "The Spell". Almost classical on many of the tracks, this is yet another wonderful piece of music. I hope you will excuse my superlatives, but these two pieces are probably the best music I have heard all year!!! The Enid have managed to combine all the detail and beauty of good classical music, with the dynamism and energy of rock music, without drowning in the pretention that many other groups have done. The first four tracks on the CD are Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn and are musical interpretations of the seasons (used as an allegory for life). These four are very classically inspired. Next is a song about the situation in many South American nations. It has quite a Latin-American feel to it. The final track was written as a tribute to a friend of The Enid who died. Ant in Chicago uunet!motcid!meadley
ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) (10/04/89)
>Really-From: motcid!marble!meadley@uunet.UU.NET (A. Meadley) >Also, the same info would be appreciated for Sarah McLachlan and her >album "Touch". >Ant in Chicago >uunet!motcid!meadley I have this album, and I think it's very good. What struck me was the fact that the first *six* reviews of it that I read were all raves, and they all compared her with Kate! The review that appeared in _Alternative Press_ was, perhaps, the most blatant. The reviewer spends the first paragraph talking about how great _The Kick Inside_ is, and only then starts comparing it with McLachlan's album. _Billboard_ said she "recalls Kate Bush, with that same sort of swirling, ethereal soprano." Personally, I think she sounds more like a cross between Enya and Sinead O'Connor, but I still like it. The review in the _New York Times_ was the only one I saw which wasn't completely favorable, but even they said she was "obviously influenced by Kate Bush." Ed ed@das.llnl.gov
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/07/89)
Really-From: think!ames!claris!netcom!wasilko@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wasilko) Did you know that Suzanne Ciani has a new album out? I have heard one cut on KTWV (the new age station in LA) and it is excellent. The two previous albums (before Neverland) are xcellent too... -- Jeff Wasilko wasilko@netcom.uucp uunet!apple!netcom!wasilko netcom!wasilko@apple.com
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/14/89)
Really-From: Eddie Kuns <EKUNS@cancer.rutgers.edu> > Did you know that Suzanne Ciani has a new album out? I have heard > one cut on KTWV (the new age station in LA) and it is excellent. > > The two previous albums (before Neverland) are xcellent too... So this new album is better than Neverland? I was kinda dissapointed by that one! Not as powerful as the 2nd album. -- /--------------+----------------------------------+--------------------------\ | | bitnet: EKuns@zodiac | 2005 Tall Oaks Drive #2A | | Eddie Kuns | domain: EKuns@zodiac.rutgers.edu | Aurora, IL 60505 | | | Delphi: EddieKuns | (312) 820-3943 | +--------------+----------------------------------+--------------------------+ | Note: You can subsitute Cancer or Pisces for Zodiac if you have problems. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/