Mythos - Purity
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Artist: MythosEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-12
Music Label: Alula
Soundtracks:
- Purity
- Surrender
- Alten Mara
- Andalucia
- Icarus
- Adagio
- Mizo's Gift
- Deus Ex Machina
- Dream
- Mystique
- Triste
Music reviews of Purity
Music Review: Not Their Best Effort
Rating: 2 Stars
First a little background, I have a Bachelors degree in music, have been a professional musician for over 25 years now, I am a published writer/arranger, own my own production facility and like all genres of music.
While I admit, I'm a little new to the world of Mythos, I have owned their "Reality Of a Dreamer" project for quite some time and decided to update and buy their two most recent titles, including "Purity." Please know some of my comments are purely from a compositional viewpoint and a are going to sound more like a music critic than an average listener, but here it goes.
This project, "Purity" falls way short of "Reality Of a Dreamer" as it relates to harmonic interest, melodic lines and general production. As I listened to it I thought to myself, "they are running out of ideas and keep re-hashing the same material over and over again." While I love Middle Eastern music, the modes, instruments, voicings, etc. I felt like that genre was overdone on this project. For me, it was flat musically, not a lot of pieces moved me emotionally. How many different ways can you use a loop, let it run for 4 1/2 to 5 minutes and meander around with different textures and no real point to your melodic line. I felt like they were grasping, or maybe gasping, for ideas. Maybe they were nearing the end of themselves creatively, I don't know. Sometimes you have to take a break from creating and re-charge, could be the issue with this project.
Sure, I know the genre of "new-age" music, which I have trouble with that moniker anyway, is supposed to be soothing background, move your soul, stir your emotions music, but can it not be interesting musically too? Take me somewhere with your melodic material, vary your harmonic structure more, create some interest with counter-melodies and chord substitutions. This project to me sounded a little too much like dinner music or elevator music for my tastes. If I were producing one question I would have asked in the studio was, "Are there any other styles we can explore here gentlemen?" Or, "Does every song need a loop?"
Again, overall, I like what Mythos puts out. For the most part very creative and from working in the studio for most of my career I know it's difficult to always bat a thousand when you put out a product. I will buy more of their product in the future but I just feel like that this is not their best effort.
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Description of Purity
Over the past decade, Mythos has produced a series of best-selling recordings featuring their unique fusion of classical music, jazz, pop, electronic, ambient, and musical influences from around the world.Written and performed by pianist Bob D'Eith and guitarist Paul Schmidt, with contributions from some of Canada's most outstanding musicians, the music Mythos makes is hauntingly beautiful and otherworldly.
Purity is the Vancouver-based duo's latest CD release, and it continues their unique musical fusion. Veteran jazz bassist Rene Worst teams up with worldbeat percussionist Pepe Danza to ground Mythos's seductive melodies with sensuous, juicy rhythms. Another Vancouver-based jazz stalwart, vocalist Jennifer Scott, contributes ethereal, soaring vocals to the evocative mix, and violinist Cameron Wilson and cellist Finn Manniche add hypnotic string embellishment to this edition of the band's singular sound.
Mythos has sold over 100,000 recordings over the course of three previously released albums. Mythos, Reality of a Dreamer, and Eternity share a similar artistic focus with the recently released Purity. Each features Gil Bruvel's surrealist, dream-like illustrations in the cover artwork, underlining the recordings' singular sound and vision.
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