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Music From A Round Tower
Artist: Dirk (Mont) Campbell
Label: ESD
Genre : Progressive Rock
World
Electronic
New Age
Geography : England
Label : ESD - http://www.noside.com/esd/
Description:
The first solo release from an elusive presence on the British progressive music scene (Egg, National Health), inspired by the compositional possibilities of MIDI and the sound of acoustic world musical instruments.
Co-produced by Campbell and Dave Stewart (Stewart/Gaskin, National Health), Music From A Round Tower has been eagerly awaited by progressive music fans, and will also connect with experimental world music and contemporary classical listeners.
The first solo release from an elusive presence on the British progressive music scene (Egg, National Health), inspired by the compositional possibilities of MIDI and the sound of acoustic world musical instruments.
Co-produced by Campbell and Dave Stewart (Stewart/Gaskin, National Health), Music From A Round Tower has been eagerly awaited by progressive music fans, and will also connect with experimental world music and contemporary classical listeners.
Reviews
- Voted 5th best album in the 1997 Green Dolphin poll. (An international poll gathered via magazines, radio and selected musicians.)
- "This charming CD of oddly orchestrated instrumentals...objectively speaking, it's wonderful. Every minute or two, a new vista unfolds..." - Jim Aikin, Keyboard, USA. Music From a Round Tower is one of Jim Aikin's top 5 albums of 1997
- "The best CD I've heard all year, and probably next year too." - Ken Egbert, Tone Clusters, USA
- "A masterpiece of complex world-flavoured music that stimulates the senses with cinematic overtones...breathtaking music that challenges every sense and frees the imagination." - Peter Thelen, Expos
Track List:
| 1 | shen Nong's Miracle Herbs | 3:25 | |
| 2 | In Pursuit of A Gazelle | 0:51 | |
| 3 | The Eunuch's Song | 1:08 | |
| 4 | Tarak Totoosh | 0:52 | |
| 5 | Driftwood Biographies | 2:44 | |
| 6 | Kua Fu Races With the Sun | 0:57 | |
| 7 | When the Rain Comes, Roses Dance on Gold | 1:15 | |
| 8 | Makoma | 1:09 | |
| 9 | Ernest Scott Pursues a Theory | 3:28 | |
| 10 | Anaphylaxis | 3:40 | |
| 11 | Mwamburi Dies Manfully at the Hands of a Thousand Thracians | 2:30 | |
| 12 | Travels over Black Earth | 2:56 | |
| 13 | Ikhwan el Safa | 6:46 | |
| 14 | What the Rose Said to the Cypress | 7:35 | |
| 15 | Dede Korkut at the Boma | 2:52 | |
| 16 | A Moment to Listen to the Audience | 0:14 | |
| 17 | Wise King Konuzion | 2:48 | |
| 18 | Evening Over Hickling Broad | 4:15 | |
| 19 | serenitsa | 2:26 | |
| 20 | An Enormous Colony of Peewits Takes Flight From Brickett's Point | 1:07 |
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