David Wright - Momentum.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Momentum
Artist: David Wright
Year: 2008
Genre: New Age / Electronic /
DESCRIPTION
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David Wright is a highly capable musician, and his craft shines through brilliantly on this superb CD.
From a labeling perspective, this CD is divided into 13 tracks. From a listening perspective, however, most of the tracks flow together, creating a relatively seamless listening experience. The effect works well, and the listener is taken on an almost uninterrupted journey, during which several common themes evolve, dissipate, and then re-emerge throughout the recording.
The first track, "The Gathering", comes to life with a sudden burst of thunder, which continues to crash and roll, eventually morphing into the second track, "Desire (Part 1)". It is in this second track where we begin to hear a core theme of the album, which is also the basis of tracks 3, 5, 6, and 7. The music here is incredibly beautiful, and filled with warm, sweet passages that are delicate, sweeping, and sparkling. The feeling is uplifting, buoyant, and contented, seeming both earthy and spacey at the same time. The only point at which this mood is broken is within the fourth track, "Panic Attack". Here, the sound turns darker, foreboding, and devoid of melody. The passage into, and then out of this darker piece, however, is very effective - almost as though a short storm has interrupted a gorgeous day, and when the darkness passes and the brightness returns, all beauty is returned.
The break between tracks 7 and 8 is the only occurrance where actual silence separates two adjacent songs, and could possibly be viewed as the "midpoint" of the album. It is here that the light, sweet "theme" found in most of the first 7 tracks disappears, and is replaced with different but equally rewarding sounds that are at times quite ambient and tranquil, and are at other times rhythmic and even danceable. Track 8, "Secrets In The Mist (Part 1)", begins with the sound of ocean waves against a soft bed of electronic drone. Spacey, interjected noises begin to emerge, and a sound evoking a haunting, mournful horn finds a place in the mix, completing this mysterious segment of soundscape. These same sounds spill over into the initial portion of track 9, "Evolution", but the mood gradually shifts, once again, as a delicate rhythm emerges and then strengthens as the song progresses. This same energy continues into track 10, "Momentum (Part 1)". Track 11, "Momentum (Part 2)", drops to a quiet and non-rhythmic intro, but once again, the rhythmic elements return, and this same pulse continues through track 12, "Momentum (Part 3)". Track 13, "Secrets In The Mist (Part 2)", ends the CD as a wonderfully ambient composition, low in energy and absent of rhythm, mournfully fading out (the haunting "horn" returns) into the returning sounds of the ocean.
This is a truly fine recording of electronic ambient music, presenting several contrasting moods which are woven together very effectively. I've listened to this CD many times since first discovering it at at the radio station where I work, and subsequently purchasing a "home" copy for myself - which has gotten extensive "air-time" in both my house and my car.
by David J. Cyr on September 3, 2011
http://www.amazon.com/Momentum-David-Wright/dp/B0017IO3AC#customerReviews
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 13
Total Duration: 1:09:59
Total Size: 160 MBs (including scan, m3u, and nfo)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded At: 320k CBR / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
NFO Created: 1 May 2015
Tracks
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01) The Gathering
02) Desire, Pt. 1
03) A Solitary Moment
04) Panic Attack
05) Emergence
06) Out of the Blue
07) Desire, Pt. 2
08) Secrets in the Mist, Pt. 1
09) Evolution
10) Momentum, Pt. 1
11) Momentum, Pt. 2
12) Momentum, Pt. 3
13) Secrets in the Mist, Pt. 2
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