Jocelyn Pook - Untold Things
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Artist: Jocelyn PookEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-03-27
Music Label: Real World
Soundtracks:
- Dionysus
- Red Song
- Upon This Rock
- Yellow Fever Psalm
- Hell, Fire, and Damnation
- Take off Your Veil
- Last Day
- Saints and Sinners
- Butterfly Song
- Calls, Cries, and Clamours
- Saffron
Music reviews of Untold Things
Music Review: Untold
Rating: 5 Stars
First and foremost, let's not compare this to "Flood". Pook's debut release was something that can never be repeated. However, if you take a step back and listen to this as though you've never listened to Jocelyn Pook before--under a new light and with no expectations--you will discover the magic and mystery of "Untold Things". Equally inventive, the only aspect missing from her second release is the bleak, goth dreariness that gave color to "Flood" and the songs that were featured in the film "Eyes Wide Shut". This album is equally engaging though slightly less gut-wrenching. Still powerful and beautiful, these songs would fit better in a "Lord of the Rings" type film with great epic scenes sweeping across snow peaks. My biggest disappointment is that "Untold Things" was released in 2001, and we haven't seen any new material since aside from soundtracks that really don't do her style credit. Either way, five stars.
Description of Untold Things
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 DilibertoGeneral CDs
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