David Arkenstone - Citizen of the World
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Artist: David ArkenstoneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-06-29
Music Label: Windham Hill Records
Soundtracks:
- Forest Runners
- Desert Crossing
- Moonflower
- The Gypsy Camp
- Safe Passage
- Ceremony
- Land Of The Tiger
- Carried Away Across The Sea
- Temple Of The Pharoah
- Into The Dreamtime
Music reviews of Citizen of the World
Music Review: Hmmm...
Rating: 3 Stars
I bought this CD pretty much on whim. I don't get the impression that Arkenstone's music has never been particularly original or profound, but this music is really quite bland. He seems to go from one culture to another and craft a little tune that suggests the superficial stereotype of it, using synth sounds for ethnic instruments. There isn't one of the ten tracks that you can't figure out on a recorder or piano in about two minutes. It's much like the background music you might hear in a movie or documentary. For example, the first track is "Mayan," but not much else--just the minimum requirement to give it the flavor. The second is "Arabic" in the same way; the third is an almost absurdly simple rearrangement of the pentatonic scale ("Chinese"). The fourth is Spanish or Gypsy, the fifth is superficially African, the sixth even more superficially Native American, and the seventh Indian. Then, of course, the obligatory "Celtic" theme, another bland Riverdance imitation, and something called "The Pharaoh's Tomb," which is pretty much video game music, built on a minor scale with a sharp third (I don't know what culture that is). I don't know what to make of "Into the Dreamtime." Fully two minutes are a long string of synth noises, and the melody is amazingly repetitive and quite unmemorable. It gets three stars because it can be pleasant background music, which I think is what it's trying to be. However, there is enough real folk music out there that this is unnecessary. I have nothing against New Age music in general, and Windham Hill has published some truly good music, but this is a bit too banal for me.
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