quoted 11 lines "HEROES" SYMPHONY -- Phillip Glass (Point Music): To this> "HEROES" SYMPHONY -- Phillip Glass (Point Music): To this
> day, David Bowie and Brian Eno's 1977 album "Heroes" remains
> one of rock's most chilling and bleak recordings.
> Neo-classical composer Glass adapts six songs from this
> avant-garde classic for the symphony, replacing Bowie and
> Eno's icy synth soundscapes with warmer orchestral sounds
> and liberally changing the original's melodies and harmonics
> (though they're still recognizable) to fit his own means. By
> doing so, Glass hasn't merely orchestrated "Heroes"; he has
> respectfully reinvented the work. You'll never hear the
> original album the same way again. Rating: 4 out of 5
Anyone heard Glass' remakes of some of the tracks from LOW? I've got 'em,
and IMHO they don't do much for me. The spots where he stays true to the
compositions are nice, but when he wanders off into arpeggio-ville as is
the case with most of his own work, the pieces lose whatever quality made
them special in the first place. Just my .02, would certainly like to
hear what other people thought of those reinterpreted LOW tracks, and to
be fair, I would be interested in hearing what he does with the Heroes
tracks. Its just the above review leads me to believe Glass puts these
tracks through the same treatment.
Peace.
James