Restoration

Restoration Artist: Amazing Blondel
Label: Castle - Old Numbers
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 602923660721
EAN: 0602923660721
ASIN: B00004TFPD


Release Date: 2002-06-11

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Tracks:

  1. Benedictus Es Domine
  2. Praeludium In D
  3. Highwayman
  4. Fugue
  5. Cawdor And Widdershins
  6. Aubaird
  7. Love Lies Bleeding
  8. Edagio
  9. Sir John in Love Again
  10. Interlude
  11. Road To Sedgemoor
  12. Cawdor Revisited

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Amazing Blondel never cease to amaze........2004-10-09

The earliest reviewer is far too harsh. Amazing Blondel's 70's work (Evensong, Fantasia Lindum, and England) is so beautiful it makes one want to sing along and celebrate life and nature. This reunion work is equally beautiful but in a quieter, more contemplative way. The musicianship and songwriting are excellent. It just misses 5 stars for lack of a standout track, although "Benedictus Es Domine" and "Cawdor and Widdershins" come close. I very much wish they would record again. 4.5 stars.

4 out of 5 stars Would call it gothic if it wasn't so baroque.......1999-12-29

This seems to be one of thease recordings you either love or hate. All I knew of Amazing Blondels early works before I bought this one was their old album ýEvensongý, which contains some songs I absolutely like, and when I saw they had reunited and got ýRestorationý, I thought they had develloped in a nice way. I don't like all of the new songs, but two of them - ýHighwaymaný and ýRoad to Sedgemoorý are so great that they are worth bying the whole CD. The music may seem to be a little bit to heavy, meaning pompous, inflated, and there are some wonderful weird note in ýSedgemoorý that surely will not please everyone - in a way, it's like gothic music (=music for people who consider themselves goths), only it's baroque. I like it. And in any case, it's worth a try.

1 out of 5 stars Blondel reunites - they shouldn't have bothered.......1999-07-24

First of all, the review above from Dirty Linen doesn't refer to this album. This is a new studio album recorded in 1997 - the band's first album with John Gladwin in about 22 years. Anyway, it's absolutely awful. The songs are meandering and unfocused, nothing like the marvelous stuff they were doing 25 years ago. If you're a fan of their vintage music, stay away from this one!

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