Opium

Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra - Opium

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Artist: Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 1996-03-12
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Nuevo Mexico
  2. Alegria Arabe [Version]
  3. Turkish Night
  4. Ocean Blvd. /Miami
  5. Santa Fe 2 Chama
  6. Tr?mulo (De Mi Coraz?n)
  7. Bed of Nails [Wide-Eyed Trance]
  8. Montana Walking
  9. Tangos de Tesuque
  10. Snakeoilsurfer
  11. Serenity on Ultracloud [Tribal Mix]
  12. Butterfly + Juniper
  13. Oudu (Technicolor Eyes Burn Thru)
  14. Buler?a de Rojo
Music CD 2
  1. Serenity on Ultracloud [Mellow Mix]
  2. Yasmeen
  3. Ayer-El ?ltimon Dia de Palabra
  4. Old Man on the Citadel
  5. Anyong/Grandfather Smiling [Walkie Talkie Mix]
  6. Te Siento
  7. Freedom
  8. Buleria de Las Golondrinas
  9. Acequia Madre
  10. Chama 2 Santa Fe
  11. Chi-Wahwah Beauty
  12. Drop of Water on a Dry Stone
  13. Slow Burn/Pain + Pleasure
  14. Bluedreamdrops
  15. Ripple/Wind over Water
  16. Blink of an I Contains Eternity
  17. Anyong/Grandfather Singing [Gibson Mix]
  18. Opium

Free Music Notes for Opium

Free Music Review: You need to be drugged...
Hit: 1 Stars

...to listen to this, if you are a true music fan. However, I'm not sure it would completely earse the agony of his tiresome music and agonizingly mangled articulation.

I'd normally avoid even commenting on such music, as it is usually not worth my time, but this....whatever...claims to play "flamenco", so I shall rate it accordingly.

As a frame of reference, I shall compare it to truly good "new" Flamenco by the likes of Tomatito, Paco De Lucia, Vincente Amigo and Gerardo Nunez.

This is utter....utter....UTTER garbage. He has no technique. He has no compas. He does not play Flamenco forms and, it is clear that he he ever tried, he would suck monumentally. The music doesn't even resemble Flamenco! He should be reported to the Federal Trade Commission for deceptive trading.

His "influences" seem to be born more of ignorant cultural steroetypes rather than real understanding of music. This is no surprise coming from one who describes his music as "Flamenco" simply because it has a nylon guitar and uses the Phrygian mode.

And people who claim this is Flamenco are just ignorant. Sorry, that's what you get for talking about something of which you know nothing. If you want to learn, search for Paco De Lucia here on Amazon and listen to the available samples.

I might be willing to let it go if there was any artistic merit in his music, but there is none. We have pedestrian, repetitive "hey, look I've just learned to play guitar" garbage. Seriously: this guy is amateur in the extreme. You can hear infinitely better stuff in a cheap piano bar. Across his entire career, I can detect no appreciable improvment in his technique, which might have at least denoted some integrity. Instead, here's the same lame technique and amateurish riffs we heard in his first outing.

As a guitarist, I've played some pieces by Paco, but if I'm ever asked "Have you played any Liebert", my response shall be "No, but I think I may have stepped in some once".

This gets one star simply because Amazon doesn't allow me to give a score of zero.

Footnote: Some may note that my reviews for Ottmar's albums are strikingly similar to each other. Well, that's an indication of how consistently bad his material is. And yes, I forced myself to listen to this rubbish, so this is a fair review.

Opium Poster

"Ambitious" is a word that's inevitably used by music critics to describe Ottmar Liebert's Opium. Spread over two CDs, which also feature text and a variety of photographs, Opium clocks in at more than 125 minutes and affords the German-born guitarist (today a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico) the broadest possible canvas to express his fascinating artistic vision, one that eludes a concise or simple explanation. Nominated for a Grammy (Best New Age Recording) in 1997, Opium comprises one CD subtitled "Wide-Eyed," which features a fairly straightforward presentation of Liebert's elegantly vibrant approach to flamenco-influenced acoustic guitar, and an even more intriguing second CD, "Dreaming." On this disc, Liebert and members of his Luna Negra band have room to indulge in various sonic explorations, probing unfamiliar atmospheric terrain that only a few other globally minded guitar adventurers, such as Steve Tibbetts, have previously charted--only without the feedback Tibbetts often favors. The results are almost always mind-expanding and often quite lovely. The moments when he intertwines electric guitar into his work, such as "Butterfly and Juniper" from disc 1 and "Chi-Wahwah Beauty" on disc 2, are especially satisfying. Other flamenco albums will strike brighter sparks than Opium, but few will equal its sustained, magical glow. --Terry Wood

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