Eve

Alan Parsons - Eve

Eve
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Artist: Alan Parsons
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-01-27
Music Label: Arista
Soundtracks:
  1. Lucifer
  2. You Lie Down With Dogs
  3. I'd Rather Be A Man
  4. You Won't Be There
  5. Winding Me Up
  6. Damned If I Do
  7. Don't Hold Back
  8. Secret Garden
  9. If I Could Change Your Mind

Music reviews of Eve

Music Review: As Misunderstood As Women Themselves
Rating: 5 Stars

While Eric Woolfson remembers being under the tremendous pressure of recording deadlines even as Alan Parsons remembers a recording process bedeviled by all manner of malfunctions in a foreign studio, Andrew Powell delivered the finest orchestral arrangements to ever grace a Project. In strictly musical terms, Andrew Powell made what would possibly have been a good but under-distinguished album absolutely exceptional! Songs like Winding Me Up and Damned If I Do would never be the same without Andrew Powell's orchestral touch. As such, I would strongly recommend tracking down some of Powell's other work, especially Andrew Powell and The Philharmonia Orchestra Play the Best of the Alan Parsons Project and Ladyhawke: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

In strictly conceptual terms, the time constraints imposed by Arista forced Woolfson to abandon his original hope of composing an album dedicated to significant women throughout history such as Joan of Arc. What remained was a far more conventional look at the fairer gender and their influence over men. The photography by Hipgnosis actually sums up the conceptual short-comings of EVE quite succinctly. Holding the male viewer in the longing of their lovely gazes, two of the three women are so subtlely marred that said flaws do not detract from their tremendous beauty. Unfortunately, the third woman is presented with an undeserved ugliness that completely overwhelms her beauty. Although never intended as universal statements, the songs You Lie Down With Dogs and I'd Rather Be A Man suffer in much the same way the third photographed woman does for much the same reason.

But, for me at least, the paradigm upon which EVE rests is the stunningly beautiful instrumental Secret Garden through which the listener glimpses the lost garden that Lesley Duncan seems to almost beckon us back to in the closing epic If I Could Change Your Mind. The poignant sorrow of Duncan's soulful vocals harken the listener back to the time when man and woman lived in perfect harmony with one another. One can only wonder how EVE would have been received all these years had it been called EDEN instead. With an instrumental overture called Lucifer, are ponderings of that sort really such a stretch?

While the bonus material once again grants a welcomed look behind the scenes of the creative process, the one song from long-fabled "The Sicilian Defence" called "Elsie's Theme" will likely cause almost anyone hearing it to wonder why it was never recorded before now. Elsie's Theme from The Sicilian Defence (The Album That Never Was) is a very adept solo piano piece by Woolfson that would be right at home on an acoustic new age program or, even, at a quietly dramatic point in a film. I would not mind hearing an entire album of Woolfson's solo piano works if they are anything like this.
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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing of this 1979 album from the British band. Music On Vinyl.

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