Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Jocelyn Pook Title: Untold Things Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Real World Release Date: 3/27/2001 Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, New Age, Pop, Soundtracks, Classical Styles: Ambient, Europe, Britain & Ireland, Meditation Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 724385078125, 0724385078156, 724385078156 |
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If you remember the stark, bare-bones score to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, then you've heard Jocelyn Pook. A British composer with edgy, avant-garde sensibilities, she nevertheless lures you into her world of soun... more » |
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Amazon.com If you remember the stark, bare-bones score to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, then you've heard Jocelyn Pook. A British composer with edgy, avant-garde sensibilities, she nevertheless lures you into her world of sound like a Venus flytrap: pretty on the outside, dangerous once you get in. "Dionysus," the opening track on Untold Things, is a haunting Gothic-style hymn sung by Melanie Pappenheim over minor-key string cycles. On "Red Song," Russian and Tatar vocal samples mix with Verdi's "Te Deum" to create a global choral lament. "Upon This Rock" sets a Middle Eastern ululating vocal sample against a decidedly English chorale and heroic strings. On "Yellow Fever Psalm," Pappenheim's vocal is played backwards in perfect harmony against a droning string arrangement. Pook terrain is one of thwarted expectations and musical puzzle-making whose songs seduce you with their minor-key melancholy. She often works in contrasts and she's particularly enamored of mixing Middle Eastern instruments and voices in western classical settings, building her orchestrations around the melodies of vocal samples, rather than the usual ambient technique of plopping a sample into the middle of an instrumental mix. Untold Things is a challenging album with untold charms that reveal themselves on repeated listening. --John Diliberto Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsWorld music meets classical morgan1098 | Colorado Springs, Colorado USA | 04/17/2001 (4 out of 5 stars) "If you like Loreena McKennitt's music and are looking for something a bit more experimental, try "Untold Things." Despite Pook's renown as a string player and composer, this album will stick in your memory for its interesting vocals. In addition to singers from India, Vietnam, and elsewhere, "Untold Things" features samples of existing recordings of Yeminite Jews, Eastern European choirs, and an Iranian soloist (some of the English vocals are even recorded backwards, to interesting effect). The whole package is tied together with subtle keyboards and a heavy dose of excellent string arrangements, courtesy of Pook and her fellow Electra String players. Parts of this album reminded me of Roger Eno's modern chamber music work from the early `90's, and of Franco Battiato's ethereal, West-meets-East orchestral work. On the whole, however, this record probably doesn't sound quite like anything you've ever heard - which is just what you'd expect from Peter Gabriel's excellent Realworld label." SANCTUS ET BENEDICTUS THE FAMILY CAT | Blackpool England | 01/11/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "This,the 3rd CD to be issued under Jocelyn Pook's name,is business as usual.Plenty of sampling of ethnic voices amid music which was composed for various other projects.Anyone who bought her other work will not be disappointed.A first time rounder buying out of curiosity in a sale would find it hard going unless that person was already attuned to Gavin Bryars,Michael Nyman,John Tavener.People who buy the so called Popular Classics would find Britten or Penderecki hard going. Music like this deserves to be listened to.In the end its ultimately rewarding as it can lead to so much more,out there on the fringe of what is now called Classical Crossover. She has a very detailed website on Yahoo's egroups which also covers the work of Audrey Riley,Ann Stephenson,Caroline Lavelle and Sonia Slany" Mysterious & Intriguing THE FAMILY CAT | 07/17/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "I'm a visual artist, and I find this music to be wonderful for drifing into a non-word oriented space, while painting. Pook's music is very unique, and "non-linear," like an Indian raga that transports the listener to a place like no other. It is meloncholy, and has many influences, Arabic, Western classical, new agey ambient, electronic, etc. Pook's voice is haunting. I love this c.d. and listen to it over and over. Highly recommended."
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