Light from Orion.nfo
Deep Skies Vol.1: Light from Orion
Kevin Kendle
Audio CD (11 Feb 2005)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Mg Music
ASIN: B0007Q6QSW
31,548,586 Deep Skies - 01 Horsehead Nebula.flac 5:37
31,510,860 Deep Skies - 02 Alnitak.flac 5:08
26,262,699 Deep Skies - 03 Bellatrix.flac 4:52
24,057,938 Deep Skies - 04 Great Orion Nebula.flac 4:12
42,107,743 Deep Skies - 05 Rigel.flac 6:28
32,209,037 Deep Skies - 06 Stellar Nursery.flac 6:10
28,965,212 Deep Skies - 07 Flame Nebula.flac 5:28
35,387,032 Deep Skies - 08 Mintaka.flac 7:02
45,416,218 Deep Skies - 09 Alnilam.flac 9:39
38,196,130 Deep Skies - 10 Betelgeuse.flac 6:43
Review by Numanoid Mar 08, 2011
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Kendle comes of age with the Deep Skies series. Most of his earlier output
belong in the new age/muzak department, but this CD and the following discs in
the series really do shine: Beautiful chilled outer space ambience, drifting on
a warm vibe.
http://www.eventidemusic.co.uk/cd-light-from-orion.htm
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Forming the first release in Kevin Kendle's exciting new DEEP SKIES series, this
is music inspired by the constellation of Orion.
Take a close look at the background of this page. It's not a computer-generated
graphic, it's a photograph - this incredible place actually exists....the
Horsehead Nebula.
Orion contains some amazing features - supergiant stars, beautiful star-forming
nebulae - these were the inspiration behind the amazing sounds on this album.
Kevin Kendle's most ethereal and celestial sounds to date!
http://www.sonicimmersion.org/review.php?letter=K&review=71132
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In the days of the former Dutch Em-fanzine KLEM I reviewed a couple of cds by
this UK-based musician, who's music was often categorized as New Age. "
Light of Orion" is the first in the Deep Skies Series, focussing on space music.
Next to Kendle's electronic instrumentation, the music also features some
glissando guitar.
While listening to this album, it's quite obvious Kevin heads for a lighter
approach to space music, so don't expect extended deep cosmic lingerings like
Jonn Serrie, Telomere and alike. The ten tracks on the album are nicely merged
together, forming 61 minutes of overtly harmonic and melodic music.
Opener "Horsehead Nebula" is sounding great, and that applies to several other
tracks, but personally the sound of the glissando guitar -although rather nice
music.
Nevertheless, the biggest part of the excellent produced album is nicely done.
So space fans will want to check this one out for sure.
Website: www.eventidemusic.co.uk
Review by Dene Bebbington, Melliflua.com
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"... New age artist Kevin Kendle has turned his musical gaze to the far off
wonders of the heavens to begin the Deep Skies series of spacemusic albums with
Light From Orion. I share Kevin's fascination of the night sky and so was
interested to hear his take on spacemusic because this isn't his usual musical
territory. In addition to Kevin's electronics there is also glissando guitar
played by Brian Abbott and more keyboards by Nigel Shaw.
Each of the ten tracks is named after a celestial object, or collection of
objects, in the constellation of Orion. There's a useful brief description of
each of the tracks in the liner notes, plus some wonderful pictures of those
astronomical objects that get one in the mood for the music to come. Getting the
album off to a flying start is "Horsehead Nebula", various shiny washes of sound
and the soon to be ubiquitous glissando guitar musically render the sense of
wonder I get when looking at pictures of the horsehead nebula.
Kevin's new age background comes out particularly in "Bellatrix" where acoustic
guitar and flute sounds create nice melodies over recurring resonant bass
effects and spacey glissandos reaching out into the distance. In contrast, the
next and shortest track "Great Orion Nebula" is a dramatic little number that
conveys a sense of extensive celestial activity. Shimmering waves of sound like
stellar flares repeatedly whoosh on by as yearning glissando lines (yet again!)
and twittery effects add to the cosmic commotion, and all the while occasional
rumblings stir in the background.
Perhaps not surprisingly given Kevin's sweet New Age music, Light From Orion
takes a light and pretty approach to the spacemusic genre, one that I've not
heard since the first disc of Michael Neil's Towards the Unknown Region. For
just over an hour the music transports the listener to various beauty spots in
the constellation of Orion. To this end it works exceedingly well and it makes a
change from the darker visions of outer space that are common in this genre. My
only criticism is that the glissando guitar is rather overused for my taste; I
think the album is a real gem nonetheless and so highly recommend it.
Reviewer: Andy G, CD Services, Scotland
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"...With ten tracks linked to form a single sixty-one minute cosmic music epic,
this has all the hallmarks of the finest American space synth music pioneers of
the mid-late eighties, combined with the best influences of artists such as
Serrie and Stearns. But the sheer magical feel and atmosphere of the music sets
it apart from even those great musicians. With layer upon layer of synths,
rippling melodic backdrops, strings that stretch from horizon to horizon, the
effect is simply staggering as these seemingly infinite textures and layers fill
the room with sound.
But there is also a secret weapon at work here - the presence of a fantastic
glissando guitar courtesy of player Brian Abbott and, when utilised, just takes
the already vast sea of space music into another galaxy altogether, as you are
completely drawn in to the deep space that stands before you and all around you.
Of its kind - incredibly atmospheric, varied, never standing still but never
overly dark and certainly not droning - it's just gorgeous, yet full of depth
and harmony, beauty and strength, the fact that it plays as a continuous single
piece only adding to its splendours. As this kind of space synth music goes, one
of the finest for ages. Surely this will be the one to put him up there with the
so-familiar names of the past. A triumph..!!"
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