Andreas Vollenweider - Vox
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Artist: Andreas VollenweiderEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Dual Disc
CD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Music Label: Kin Kou
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Hey You, Yes...You! (At the Gate of Sound)
- Wake Up and Dance! (All the Good Reasons...)
- These Hearts of Gold
- Seven Doors
- Home of Love
- Enchanted Rocks
- Pilgrim (...and I Shall Not Be Sad)
- Sons of Sysiphos
- Paper Walls
- Ripples in the Lake of Time
- Kira's Waltz
- What If It Wasn't a Dream?
- Hey You, Yes...You! [5.1 Surround Sound][Mix]
- Wake Up and Dance! (All the Good Reasons...) [5.1 Surround Sound]
- These Hearts of Gold [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- Seven Doors [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- Home of Love [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- Enchanted Rocks [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- Pilgrim (...and I Shall Not Be Sad) [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- Sons of Sysiphos [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- Paper Walls [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- Ripples in the Lake of Time [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- Silver Moment [5.1 Surround Sound Mix][*]
- Kira's Waltz [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- What If It Wasn't a Dream? [5.1 Surround Sound Mix]
- Hey You, Yes You [DVD][Live]
- Wake Up and Dance [DVD][Live]
- Seven Doors [DVD][Live]
- Bonus Material [DVD][*]
Free Music Notes for Vox
Free Music Review: An ugly album from the most beautiful musician
Hit: 2 Stars
My dad uses to say the most beautiful music he's ever heard is Vollenweider's. I haven't played him this penultimate album yet, but if I do I'm completely sure he would put a strange face on a few songs. For me it sounds a little too dark, intimidating and sometimes even scary. Sure it doesn't have to be always the delicate beauty of 'Down to the Moon' B-side, or the melodic charm of 'Eolian Minstrel'. But the gloom and darkness of all the melodies and the soft use of his own voice, which I prefer as he did before as a mere accompaniment for the actual instrumental music, make me feel uneasy along most of the work.
Although Vollenweider's music has been darkening a bit with each record, in this one he's gone too far, sounding really void and unfeeling, even uninspired in some tracks. Probably I'm going too far with this review, but probably counts that I would expect much more from Andreas Vollenweider than from the rest of the musicians, and so this makes me go a little further in disappointment. The quality is still good, but for me it is the weakest attempt from the artist so far and it loses a bit of the soul his works always had. But knowing him, his next one will be completely different and he'll reach inspiration in new faraway sources of art.
Vox Poster
Vox isn't just the kind of metaphorical title we've come to expect from Andreas Vollenweider. On it, the Swiss harpist actually sings songs in English for the first time. He has a pleasant, slightly coarse alto that would be great at a campfire singalong, but on a highly produced CD, his flaws and limited range become cloying. You could imagine these tunes being sung by Kenny Loggins, but I'm not sure that easy-listening is what Vollenweider had in mind. And Daniel Kueffer's sub-Kenny G. sax playing doesn't help. But despite the songs, which take up nearly half the disc, Vox doesn't sound that distant from Vollenweider's previous discs. He's still a brilliant multi-instrumentalist and adventurous composer, ingenious in his mixing of global music, creating tableaus that embrace South African singers, Indian bansuri flute players, Chinese erhu masters, and even his daughter's school choir. "Wake Up and Dance" has a rhythm constructed around crowd chants from London's One Million People peace march in February, 2003. It builds into a swirling mosaic with sirens wailing and an African chorus singing a tribal chant with solo voices, a youth choir, and more emerging out of a chaotic bazaar. The chamber setting of his song "Paper Walls" is wrought like an antique book cover, full of detail.But as often as Vollenweider succeeds, he sabotages his compositions with episodic arrangements and a corny sense of humor. On "Enchanted Rocks" he mixes Zulu-language Andrews Sisters-style vamping while launching into a Louis Armstrong scat imitation. It's meant as a joke, but is just wrong. In recent years, Andreas Vollenweider hasn't been given the credit he deserves, and albums like Vox may be part of the reason why. --John Diliberto
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