Dave Bainbridge & Troy Donockley - From Silence
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Artist: Dave Bainbridge & Troy DonockleyEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Live
CD Release Date: 2006-03-14
Music Label: Open Sky UK
Soundtracks:
- From Silence, Pt. 1
- From Silence, Pt. 2
- From Silence, Pt. 3
- From Silence, Pt. 4
- From Silence, Pt. 5
- From Silence, Pt. 6
Free Music Notes for From Silence
Free Music Review: Mostly Captivating and Sometimes Even Amazing Improvisational Music from Two Superlative Musicians
Hit: 4 Stars
From Silence (2004) answers a question that probably has crossed the minds of many fans of the marvelous British, Celtic Christian-flavored band Iona: What would happen if you took the band's two most multi-talented musical geniuses from its current lineup, Dave Bainbridge and Troy Donockley, locked them in a room, and made them improvise music together for a set period of time? Now imagine that the "room" in question was humongously vast. This is exactly what happened within the setting of Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, England, on October 27, 2004. Bainbridge and Donockley spent approximately 70 apparently uninterrupted minutes creating music on the spot that they hoped would be grand enough for such a locale. Between 10 and 15 minutes did not make this CD's cut, evidently due to technical problems.
No matter; what's here is mostly captivating and sometimes even amazing. Like The Eye of the Eagle, Bainbridge's remarkable 1998 collaboration with former Iona co-founder David Fitzgerald, this is music for contemplation and meditation, or perhaps long drives into rural areas. (I haven't yet had the opportunity to test the album in a car.) It's incredibly beautiful and mystical, perfect (despite its flaws) for prayer and reflection. There is nothing that makes this album specifically Christian, unlike many of Iona's albums. There are no lyrics, nor are Donockley and Bainbridge trying to capture the spirit of a book, as Bainbridge and Fitzgerald did on Eagle. The only vocals are wordless ones contributed by Donockley near the midpoint of the album and a few barely noticeable background vocals in part five. Musically, Donockley mostly plays wind instruments, while Bainbridge contributes the vast majority of the guitars and all of the atmospheric keyboard work. Both are absolutely superlative musicians.
The only problem with this album involves the running order. The six tracks on this album are labeled as "parts," and part five is simply too quiet to be the penultimate track, particularly since part six is also slow. And because the album reaches its greatest ascension point about two-thirds of the way through part three, it would have been better to slow things down afterward with the current part five, and then follow that track up with the more robust current part four. I think that if you change the running order in this way (i.e., flipflop the current parts four and five in sequence), the album is more cohesive and flows better. Four-and-a-half stars.
From Silence Poster
Members of the Iona Celtic fusion band Troy Donockley and Dave Bainbridge have released a unique improvised album together From Silence on Open Sky Records. The two musicians spoke about the recording, "When Rob Ayling of Voiceprint called us with the idea of playing in Lincoln Cathedral we were both immediately enthusiastic about the sonic possibilities of performing in such a huge, reverberant space. And not just any space - but one contained in this most beautiful and ancient of buildings. With no music pre-prepared, just an idea of which instruments we might play, we decided from the outset to reverently seek our inspiration from our surroundings and the cathedral's acoustics, so that the music would, in some way, become part of the building and aspire, for the 70 minutes or so that we played without a break, to something beyond ourselves." 6 tracks. 2005.Folk Music CDs
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