Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden Artist: Passport
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 664140923324
EAN: 0664140923324
ASIN: B00005RZX6


Release Date: 2001-11-06

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Tracks:

  1. Big Bang
  2. Garden Of Eden: Dawn
  3. Garden Of Eden: Light I
  4. Garden Of Eden: Light II
  5. Garden Of Eden: Snake
  6. Garden Of Eden: Gates Of Paradise
  7. Garden Of Eden: Dreamware
  8. Garden Of Eden: Good Earth Smile
  9. Garden Of Eden: Children's Dance

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Odd but don't pass it by!.......2003-06-25

To me Passport have always been known for the artfullness of it's
musical style,whatever they may be.But none of the Passport albums I've heard sound anything alike and this being more so then others."Garden Of Eden" is a concept album veering from the
overtly bombastic to the extremely sutble-that's it's simplist
description."Big Bang","Gates Of Paradise" and "Children's Dance"
are the more "bomastic" cuts,the later barring a strong resemblance to Herbie Hancock's Headhunters band sound,the former
featuring one of the first examples on vocals on a Passport album,something that seems to lend this album detracters."Snake",
"Dreamware" and yet another vocal piece "Good Earth Smile" are
far slower pieces that come and go at just the right time before
they become tedious and boring-older Passport "slow" tunes had a problem with being overlong and dull.The tital suite has a very
pronounced new-age jazz feel,but it's minimalism,good use of

choral synthesizers and most important it's brevity lend it a feel most closely associated with Stevie Wonder's "Secret Life Of
Plants" from the same year.This isn't typical Passport but it shows the band learning from the mistakes of it's past and trying
something new and more compelling.This is probably one of the last Passport albums a fan would want to pick up-I have many
others I'd recommend first because familiarity with the bands
earlier and even later music is somewhat important in making
the music on "Garden Of Eden" work.

Music CD:

  1. Lifetime ~ Chris Ho
  2. Growing Up ~ Chris Ho
  3. Picasso Blue ~ Chris Ho
  4. Wolverines of Bern at 35 ~ Wolverines of Bern
  5. X-Cerpts: Live at Willisau ~ Herb Robertson
  6. Odahoda ~ Interstring
  7. As One ~ Laura Caviani
  8. World Expansion ~ Steve Coleman & The Five Elements
  9. Witness ~ Dave Douglas
  10. Old Montmarte ~ Various Artists

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All Nite (Don't Stop) ~ Janet Jackson

Live at the Hard Rock ~ All 4 One

Cut Throat City ~ Graveyard Soldjas

The Platform ~ Dilated Peoples

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