I wanted the music of a female composer who was connected to the divine. Hildegarde was a genius of all the Arts as most women are but have hardly broken through enough barriers to express. This interpretation of her music brings with her compositions an airy ethereal feel of lightness beyond imaging. It is what I had hoped for.
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This is a beautiful collaboration between Singer/instrumentalist Jocelyn Montgomery(Now Jocelyn West)and film maker,artist,musician David lynch to the music of Hildergard von Bingen. 15 tunes no less. Jocelyn's voice is truly angelic and her interpretations of this music memorable. David lynch's fingerprints are all over this making for a very original work.My interest in hearing this grew from watching the extras on Lynch's "Lost Highway" where you can see Lynch and Angelo Badalamonti recording her singing and playing violin in the studio.The album sways between light chamber like music with Jocelyn's soothing siren-like voice calling out to the sea, to the contrast of dark, crashing thunder and a range of dangerous atmospherics we've come to know and love from David Lynch, alot of it grand, bold and film-matic. Other than this ,as I said to my sister when she borrowed it recently, approach it like a Lynch film have no expectations and open yourself to it's merits should you hear them..For me it's all merit...(My favourite track is Kyrie, track 13)Read full review
I have to say that this was something my husband heard and said was so good the few songs he heard and wanted it. Once I attempted to find this cd it was very hard to find a good price and once we did recieve it I personlly thoought it to be a bit dark or dreary sounding. My husband likes it but I am not a fan. We even had it in our player as the song that wakes you up in the morning for an alarm and I had to replace the cd becasue it was depressing to me. Not my taste but seems to be in very high demand among others!
I expected to hear more of David Lynch like music along with the angel voices drifting into another time
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