Atlantis voted No 1 New Age Music Album of 2010
Cliffords latest album Atlantis was recently voted the No 1 New Age album of 2010. "Atlantis is like a box of surprises! Here Clifford White gives the listener a fresh perspective on the old myth. Indeed, after 65 minutes of music you feel that Atlantis has risen from the ocean and become a place in your mind you can visit and revisit again and again." Read the article in full from NewAgeMusic.nu website at the following URL: Best New Age Music Album 2010.
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Atlantis has risen
Since antiquity the whereabouts of the legendary island Atlantis has been discussed. From Plato to Francis Bacon and into today's world, it has been a frequent topic for both scientific research and art. Atlantis is also the topic for Clifford White's new album. Here he gives the listener a fresh perspective on the old myth. Indeed, after 65 minutes of music you feel that Atlantis has risen from the ocean and become a place in your mind you can visit and revisit again and again. So hang on, and enjoy the voyage!
Atlantis is a popular theme in New Age Music. Most prominent is David Arkenstone's Atlantis: A Symphonic Journey (2004), but also Alex Herr's synth classic from the late 1980s Atlantis Arising comes to mind. And now we can add another strong album to the list!
I was excited when I heard that Clifford White's new album would be about Atlantis. The reason is because his previous albums concerning water are among my all time favorites. The collection An Island Called Paradise is a like a trip to a magical and relaxing island, and I make sure to recommend it as often as I can. Selected songs from it are also among the most popular on our channel New Age Stars. We must also not forget that Clifford White is used to myths and great histories; last year's The Gods Of Olympus was an album worthy of gods.
So with this in mind I put Atlantis on my iPhone and started my musical journey.
The album opens with the title song, which starts with the sound of waves, a quiet piano melody and then something I can describe (bear with me here) as a Vangelis / Chariots of fire-like synth pluck-beat. Which is always a welcome effect! The larger-than-life strings are also here, illustrating the grandness, the light and magic of the underwater world. The song has a very nice melody, and a calming atmosphere.
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The Healing Touch
When I first heard that Clifford White was going to follow up his critically acclaimed 2009 album The Gods of Olympus with a sequel to his very first record Ascension (released by New World Music is 1985), I was both surprised and excited. Twenty-five years since the release of that classic work, the news that there would be another album in the style of Ascension certainly had me counting the days until its release. However on reflection this feeling of pleasurable anticipation was offset somewhat by a nagging worry. What with White's best-selling masterpiece being such a hard act to follow, and with so many years having elapsed, could the artist possibly recapture the mood of the original? Would this latter-day return to his roots live up to expectations? I needn't have worried.
Inevitably, Ascension II: The Healing Touch, published by MG Music in 2010 will invite comparisons with its successful predecessor. And quite rightly; the entire album features various nods to the original (some of which I will discuss later on in this review), both in terms of melody, choice of sounds and tranquil mood. While the first album is imbued with a charming simplicity, this excellent sequel updates and revisits several of the themes of Ascension, while successfully recapturing the gentle and serene qualities that helped make White's 1985 work such a hit with New Age music fans.
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Top album of 2009 - The Gods Of Olympus
The Gods of Olympus is electronic keyboard player Clifford White's first album in fourteen years (his previous, Myths of the Rock, was released in 1995). After listening to The Gods of Olympus, all I can say is "We should all take fourteen years off from our work if this CD indicates the quality of results we'll achieve!"
Just as the gods of Greek mythology each had distinct traits and powers, so too do the fourteen tracks on this enjoyable excursion into state of the art electronic music each exhibit their own musical "personalities" as White crisscrosses from dramatic Vangelis-esque soundscapes to lively chill-out infectiousness to classic new age melodic portraits, all done up in rich production values and a luxuriant cinematic sense of visual splendor.
White has produced a work of highest quality ear candy - an album that is so enjoyable and infectious that it's damn near narcotic...
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112 MP3s and counting...
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