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The beginning part of this song, when the flute comes really stands out, I think it's at about 1 min 7 seconds, is just so beautiful.
It's hard to explain how a piece of music can express so much emotion but for me that part does. The whole song does but that bit does the most.
It's so beautiful and tragic, a sorrowful elegy almost.
The chaotic violence is profoundly enhanced by the tranquil arrangements of fragile piano and delicate guitar ambiance before and after its powerful explosion. I like to think of the pre-eruption passage as a sort of 'calm before the storm', an oblivious moment of false security. The post-eruption passage has a more pronounced tone of sorrow, but also of acceptance of the violence as a necessary condition of reality. The build-up to the violent section is very intense, and Cavanagh's yearning guitar against the backdrop of angelic keyboards provides a wonderful sense of transcendence over the insane blasting percussion of John Douglass. This is one of their more abstract and powerfully dynamic compositions.
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The beginning part of this song, when the flute comes really stands out, I think it's at about 1 min 7 seconds, is just so beautiful. It's hard to explain how a piece of music can express so much emotion but for me that part does. The whole song does but that bit does the most. It's so beautiful and tragic, a sorrowful elegy almost.
Anathema will never be surpassed.
Is it me, or is that theme at the end straight from Close Encounters of The Third Kind?
Not that I care, because its one of the coolest movies about aliens ever made.
I think it's a flute? might be a clarinet.
The chaotic violence is profoundly enhanced by the tranquil arrangements of fragile piano and delicate guitar ambiance before and after its powerful explosion. I like to think of the pre-eruption passage as a sort of 'calm before the storm', an oblivious moment of false security. The post-eruption passage has a more pronounced tone of sorrow, but also of acceptance of the violence as a necessary condition of reality. The build-up to the violent section is very intense, and Cavanagh's yearning guitar against the backdrop of angelic keyboards provides a wonderful sense of transcendence over the insane blasting percussion of John Douglass. This is one of their more abstract and powerfully dynamic compositions.