David Wright - Deeper.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Deeper
Artist: David Wright
Year: 2005
Genre: New Age / Electronic / Downtempo / Ambient
DESCRIPTION
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An interesting release, 'Deeper' is impeccably produced and is stylistically closer to Callisto and 'Walking with Ghosts' rather than David's previous release 'Continuum'. However, 'Deeper' subtly represents a change of direction with greater emphasis on mood and texture with more shade than light and the music takes on a brooding, understated, more reflective tone. The set opens with 'Nomad' which originally appeared on 1994's 'Ocean Watch' but has been completely overhauled and reimagined retaining elements from the Leicester Space Centre gig in September 2004 and is superior to the original sounding like a new track. The enhanced rhythms and textures and more strident lead lines give the piece more stridency and the confident soloing nudges the direction towards prog rock territory but David's trademark jazz tinged tones imbue enough of his signature trademarks to make this classic Dave Wright fare.
'The Sound of Waves' is a gentler, more meditative piece, reminiscent in style to the chill out moments on 'Ghosts', and David is completely at ease with this romanticism but as he demonstrates so ably here, and throughout 'Deeper', there is more detail in the music and subtle tones of melancholy give the music greater substance. 'The Sound of Light' is another shorter, focussed piece with some fluid soloing and is followed by the title track which features a fine, confident melody accompanied with lush strings and interesting rhythms. 'Bamboo' follows and concludes the shorter pieces which would in the old days been the end of side one. More ethnic tinged rhythms give this piece an edgier, fragmented feel and provide variation to the mix.
The rest of the album is taken up with a 5 Part opus 'Sea of Dreams' and Part 1 is an impressionistic tone poem evoking mystery and wonder before the more rhythmic Part 2 introduces dramatic, cinematic strings which slowly build up the atmosphere. The mood changes enhance the track with lighter passages and sequences offset with more melodramatic moments, solos and treatments which whip up quite a storm.before gently winding down. Part 3 slows down the pace with ambient tones, thunderclaps and piano crossfading into more familiar rythmic territory in Part 4 and melancholic strings and piano pile on the atmosphere in a widescreen panoply of sound. The final part is at 11.50 the longest track on the album. Continuing with themes laid down before, David produces hypnotic rhythms offset with emotive strings, a steady backbeat and powerful solos that soar and weave through the mix and whip up a veritable storm until around the eight minute mark the pace slows dramatically as the piece winds down to its stately and dignified conclusion.
'Sea of Dreams' was originally part of the 'Dune' project which may still appear in some form as part of a future live performance and that is something to look forward to. Dave Massey's input is clearly discernible and generally enhances 'Deeper' as the production in 32 bit digital sound is excellent throughout. Doug Lester's cover is intriguing too and will have you viewing the image from different angles to ascertain reference points! 'Deeper' displays the increasing maturity and confidence of the composer as he heads into the next phase of his career and represents another highpoint in a long and interesting journey. I hope it is not too long befor we can experience versions of this music live. (SR), http://www.synthmusicdirect.com/dwdeeper.cfm
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 10
Total Duration: 1:11:21
Total Size: 400 MBs (including scans, m3u, spectrums, and nfo)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded At: lossless, FLAC / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
NFO Created: 1 May 2015
Tracklist
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01) Nomad
02) The Sound Of Waves
03) The Sound Of Light
04) Deeper
05) Bamboo
06) Sea Of Dreams Pt 1
07) Sea Of Dreams Pt 2
08) Sea Of Dreams Pt 3
09) Sea Of Dreams Pt 4
10) Sea Of Dreams Pt 5
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