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Missing Everything You Never Had

Anubis14 | florida | 11/13/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This cd is a masterpeice. Many of the songs take you away to another place. They are peacful and traquilizing, allowing you to reach a peace of mind. This is not a fast paced roller coaster- this cd is boat floating on gentely rocking waves while you float down a crystal clear river. I recommend this cd to anyone who apprectiates music."

Whatever it is it's quite wonderful

Michael Steinberg | Rochester, NY USA | 03/08/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's as hard to write about 6 parts 7 as it is easy to listen to them. I think of Wagner: "Music is the art of transition," Gertrude Stein (on her collaborator Virgil Thomson) that "underneath his music is special and strange but he puts a layer of banal sounds on top to put people off," and Duke Ellington's favorite term of praise, "beyond category." This album is their most complex yet, with a vibraphone prominent in most of the cuts--not the usual sound for a pop album. And what's more unusual (though familiar to fans) is that the long, slowly-transforming instrumentals move through time in a way much closer to classical music than to pop. Yet the sensiblity is not classical at all.



I found the structure of the pieces hard to grasp at first, and (as always with this band) I found myself wondering at first just how much substance there was to it. But that's because the substance isn't in the usual places--sudden modulations, odd chords, melodic surprises. I also found myself unable to stop listening. This album stayed in my car's CD player for weeks until I could commit the pieces to memory. Like all really important and worthwhile art, 6 parts 7's best music demands to be approached on its own terms. And every cut on this album is among their best."