Oasis (1997 Video)

Oasis (1997 Video) Artist: Tangerine Dream
Label: Pid
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD


UPC: 766484715228
EAN: 0766484715228
ASIN: B000009NJN


Release Date: 1998-07-14

Oasis (1997 Video)


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Tracks:

  1. Flashflood
  2. Zion
  3. Reflections
  4. Cliff Dwellers
  5. Waterborne
  6. Cedar Breaks
  7. Summer Storm
  8. Hopi Mesa Heart
  9. Chia Maroon

Album Description

Digitally remastered reissue of Tangerine Dream's soundtrackto the multi-award winning 1997 video, plus 'Chia Maroon'added as an unmarked bonus track. Nine tracks total. 1998TDI Music release.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars More pretty pictures for the mind!.......2000-09-26

This album dates from 1996, and is a copy (with additional bonuses) of the complete soundtrack from the video release of the same name, which celebrates the natural wonders of the American Southwest. The music works much better away from its mixed media setting-largely because when free of the visual distraction that that supplies, the real beauty of this soundtrack can be more fully appreciated. Ironically, too, the CD version allows the natural spectacles portrayed in this music to be more easily summoned to mind, simply because without interference from the (oft times) contradictory visual input, the brain is free to construct these scenes from the ample sonic clues within the music. Indeed, the mental images invoked by this music are, in many ways, even more powerful than those imposed on the viewer by the video! Given the subject matter, though, I think it is a pity that none of the music includes any natural sounds. Just listen to Hildegard Westerkamp's 'Cricket Voice' or even her 'Beneath the Forest Floor' to hear how landscape music can be handled. This is an entirely personal preference, though, and not any real criticism of this disc.

Stylistically, the music of this album is very similar to much of TD's earlier album, "Goblins Club". The main theme from 'Flashflood' (which recurs in various guises throughout the album) brings 'Towards the Evening Star' very much to mind, as indeed do some of the chord changes. Overall, "Oasis" provides plenty of variety - something that's nice to see returning to Edgar's and Jerome's music - although the mood is always very upbeat, with the sound being clear as well as big and punchy. It has its hackneyed moments - the vast synthesised orchestral ballad of 'Cedar Breaks' for example - but it also has some masterful ones, too - try the opening to 'Summer Storm', or indeed the main storm section itself from that track. The snappy percussion base and haunting voices of 'Cliff Dwellers' provide more highly meritorious material.

In addition to the 7 tracks featured on the video, the CD contains another 11 minutes or so of very fine music. 'Hopi Mesa Heart' is a 6-minute track, of which only the first 90 seconds or so where used on the video (during the end credits). It is mostly a synthesiser and percussion ballad, highly redolent of native Amerindian (sorry - first people's) rhythms and timbres-tom-toms and rainstick rattles feature, as well as wordless voices - the loss of which from the video is nothing short of criminal. The bonus track, 'Chia Maroon', is a 4-minute track which returns to the heavy driving beat of 'Flashflood' to bring this disc to a very satisfying close.

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