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John Barnard - When Your Eyes Kissed Mine
Artist: John Barnard (barnard@iinet.net.au)
Title: When Your Eyes Kissed Mine
Genre: New Age
All the way from Aussieland comes a new age album of
beauty and simple depth. 'Simple depth?' Yes, consider
Caribbean water that isn't reflective but completely
clear to the bottom. This is how I feel when listening
to the soft and supple orchestrations of such a disc.
If this was all done on a synth, it's a damn fine
keyboard. I honestly can't tell. The backing strings
are that fuzzy shape that could very well be real
without compromising a classical strain. New age nuts
may balk at the elementary piano melody of, say, a
'Maria (Sorrow, Joy, Love)', or they might think it
fits right in with the less ornate compositions that
are trying to expose true relaxation to the soul.
Whatever the vote from die hard fans of the category,
these Eyes are stress-reducing candies that should be
popped on in the background and treated like vitamins.
You can't tell What the hell vitamins do for you. They
don't seem to do anything. But after a while, you feel
better. You know they've done the job. Barnard has
made his own B complex here, with sharp skill.
6 long tracks to enjoy, beginning with the reason for
the cd: 'A Prayer' based on a poem found 'amongst my
Mother's memories', spoken by John's 5 year old son,
Benjamin. A moment of this, and we are into the
tranquil instrumental album.
'Life My Eyes From the Earth' could easily be snatched
from any current Hollywood movie. It is 10 minutes
with a solitary sunset, no one else in the world able
to behold its magic. That is what shivers from the
almost Christian potency of such unadorned magic.
I love it. But then I went in with hope, loving what
new age and healing instrumentals set out to achieve.
Though one might say they are more interested in the
mood than the tune, what IS music for, except to
provoke a satisfying stimulus in us all? Country,
death metal ñ we all have our releases. Barnard's is
one of natural and global unities, scored for an
armchair.
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