I found this when trying to (and I think succeeding to) review Vangelis's Oceanic. Like all of Vangelis's music, it's a completely instrumental album, so how to review it? Well, I began with the premise upon which the album seems to be set: images of the sea and the ocean. And it works. Some tracks, you can hear the boat coming into harbour in the music, others you can get the crash of the surf as we cleave through the sea, still others have a more ethereal, kind of underwater sound about them. Probably few if any people (including me) would say this album is exciting: it's one for relaxing to, falling asleep to. But the individual tracks are so different from each other than it's easy to follow the journey and pick out the various stops along the way, expressed through the Greek maestro's music. I just didn't get that with this album. To be honest, if it hadn't been Goldmund's intention to represent certain places, I would have said ok, it's basically all one composition (as I think I did): in places it reminds me a lot of Chopin's nocturnes and etudes. But I didn't get a feeling of any sort of cohesive theme running through it at all.
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