Label: Invisible Hands
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5030559101823
ASIN: B000075A30
Release Date: 2004-05-04
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Artist: Hazel O'Connor
Label: Invisible Hands Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 5030559101823 ASIN: B000075A30 Release Date: 2004-05-04 |
Beyond the Breaking Glass
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Soundtrack to the new wave icon's one-woman 2000 stage musical. Invisible Hands Music. 2002.Customer Reviews:
A glass more than half full.......2003-03-27
Whilst Beyond the Breaking Glass is a very different work from the visceral energy of Cover Plus or Breaking Glass, the laid-back Celtic influence adds a whole new dimension to her powerful songs and has promoted this album on very first listen to my all-time favourite chill-out CD (sorry Beth!).
The classic punk anthems Big Brother and Blackman work surprisingly well, with Hazel's astonishingly vibrant voice conveying more emotion now than the naked aggression of her early material. The Celtic road she is now travelling is most apparent in the impassioned Blackwater Side and the achingly beautiful Scamaill. The tribute to Hazel's late friend Rebecca is tenderly empathetic without ever being over sentimental. Still Breathing (that's the big audience participation one if you ever see her live!) is a gloriously uplifting anthem to life - carpe diem could be its subtitle. Driftwood is another highlight - an instantly memorable song with heavy autobiographical overtones. Her most famous song, Will You , is surely one of the most sensual songs about lovemaking ever written. But does it work without the classic sax solo? Of course it does! The haunting sound of Éamonn Galldubh on low whistle gives a beautiful ethereal quality to the fade-out and, believe me, Hazel's vocals have never sounded more sensual (live, Hazel does the instrumental bit on mouth-organ, giving the song a more gutsy, bluesy feel). Finally, the title track, an inspiring song about life's journey, will send you to bed with its memorable chorus stuck in you head.
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Tiger on a Leash ~ Ken Gioffre
La Charanga Eterna ~ Orquesta Arag%C3%B3n
Maroc Les Essentiels ~ Various Artists
Holy Qur'an: Sourata al-Rahman