Ancient Dreams

Artist: Patrick O'Hearn
Label: Private Music
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 010058200246
EAN: 0010058200246
ASIN: B0000000I7

Release Date: 1990-10-17

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Tracks:

At First Light
Beauty in Darkness
Unusual Climate
Life Along the River Vaal
Ancient Dreams
Malevolent Landscape
Last Performance

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Customer Reviews:

Dark, mysterious, and a study in contrasts!.......2006-09-30

"Ancient Dreams," released in 1985, is the first "dark" New Age album I ever acquired, and it's still one of my favorites--juicy, complex and predominantly electronic. While filled with percussive textures, this is not mindlessly beat-driven club music; it's a fascinating, ever-changing and very intelligently crafted journey through mood and sound. One of the things I love about it is how seamlessly and elegantly Patrick O'Hearn manages to combine apparent opposites--heat and chill, denseness and light, drama and funk. It's truly a unique and deliciously striking brew of musical nuances--simultaneously relaxing and stimulating. In the liner notes, commentator Freff writes "Music wears a thousand masks, and exists for a million reasons. It reaches our heads, hearts, and our bodies. It can be gentle, pleading, angry, demanding, healing: as fierce as fire and as cold and dangerous as thin ice. It is so many things because we are so many things, inside. The most special music reflects our private selves." This is a perfect description of Patrick O'Hearn's keyboard and synth-driven compositions. For more electronic explorations of the dark and mysterious, try also the work of Tangerine Dream, Enigma and Amethystium.

Short, new age ambient album.......2005-07-27

This is Patrick O'Hearn's first solo CD. It comes from 1985. It is only 32 minutes long. The sound quality is excellent.

This is one of those new age albums from the mid-eighties that took advantage of the new digital and CD technologies. It has a great dynamic range and beautiful sonic quatity.

Like most of the early new age work, this is all about the sonic qualities and making beautiful sounds. It is not about the compositions. Like many new age albums, this is just repeated sounds; very beautiful sounds; but no cohesive composition. I find it to be repetitive and boring.

There are some interesting parts to the CD, and track 6 is very good throughout. This whole CD might be OK as background music.

Patrick O'Hearn got his start with playing bass for Frank Zappa. He was then in Group 87 with Mark Isham (who plays trumpet on this CD). After that, he struck it big with Missing Persons, featuring 3 other musicians who used to play for Zappa.

the alchemist.......2005-02-11

extremely well structured album, perfectly rounded, not your typical cheesy new age!!! The texture of sounds and melodies are purely mesmerizing (malevolent landscape...), the recording, wich is fairly old, is truly state of the art... True passionates of textural music, don't miss that cd...

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