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Glass: Book of Longing
from Orange Mountain Music

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• recycled glass
  This is yet another release by Glass that is an utter loss. Ever since Philip Glass got popular, his music has become banal and redundant. He keeps recycling the same sounds from other recordings, and does not do anything different from the past ten years. This recording just leaves the listener longing for the older Glass recordings that were what originally stood out from other stuff. Glass should just retire if all he can do is rehash and recycle previous material.

• "Longing" is a let down
  This album is a disappointment on several levels. Being a fan of Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass my expectations may have been unreasonably high but this album strikes me as the worst of both Cohen and Glass. In my mind the weakness of Cohen is that his lyrics and poetry sometimes are just plain silly or pretentious while Glass tends to be formulaic and repetitious. On "Book of Longing" both of their weakness's are revealed very strongly.
  Two other points that I did not like.
  1. The singers... more info

• Speechless is right!
  I, too, am speechless. But not with awe. Being a long time Leonard Cohen fan and familiar with the poetry in his Book of Longing, I know Mr. Cohen is not Mr. Sunshine but these dirges have none of the intelligence (possibly even wisdom) his work contains. Everything about this album is terrible--even to the singing. I can't believe Leonard Cohen approved this work. AWFUL!!!

• A Captivating and Astounding Work
  I was expecting a lot of "glassagies", which are a re-use of the beautiful, yet sometimes too often repeated Glass passages (as in Dracula), but instead, I found unique, beautiful passages that while they could be recognized as a Philip Glass work, are new and pleasant. This work is captivating, and encapsulates the Glass Fan within a flowing, poetic work, which was captured with excellent recording clarity.

Tracks:

1. Prologue - I Can't Make the Hills
2. I Came Down from the Mountain
3. A Sip of Wine
4. Want to Fly
5. The Light Came Through the Window
6. Puppet Time
7. G-d Opened My Eyes
8. You Go Your Way
9. I Was Doing Something
10. Not a Jew
11. How Much I Love You
12. Babylon
13. I Enjoyed the Laughter
14. This Morning I Woke Up Again
15. I Want to Love You Now
16. Don't Have the Proof

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