Between Green & Blue

David Helpling | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 23, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spotted Peccary
• ASIN: B000003YRJ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,853 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you didn't see the credits, you would think it's O'Hearn!, August 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Between Green & Blue (Audio CD)

Since Patrick O'Hearn has not released anything since "Metaphor", "Between Green and Blue" fills the gap as the next best thing. In fact, this debut album by David Helpling is about as good as anything that O'Hearn has ever done. The same brilliance of mood is accomplished, ranging from ominous and unsettling ("Stormchaser") to ultimately peaceful ("End of An Era") with many interesting sonic stops in between. Dreamy synthscapes paint an ambient landscape while the percussion, bass and guitar leave you not far from progressive rock territory. The mastering of this recording is about as good as it gets - your higher end stereo will love it. And, the cover art is appropriately mysterious in line with the title. When I play this album for people that I know, they inevitably love it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable debut, June 13, 1998

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Robert Carlberg (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Between Green & Blue (Audio CD)

Helpling's debut is remarkably accomplished and mature, sounding very much like a missing Patrick O'Hearn album. Using soft-focus digital synthesizers and exotic percussion, "Between Green and Blue" drifts along in beautiful 3-dimensional suites of depth and grandeur.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Between Green and Blue is a turquoise beauty!, October 5, 2004

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Distant Voyageur "Nicholas Computer" (Io) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Between Green & Blue (Audio CD)

This debut album from New Age musician David Helpling is a really beautiful album and a wonderful hidden gem. The album cover perfectly showcases the mood of this album: Moody and mysterious yet very much at the same time, calming and peaceful.

Patrick O'Hearn fans will certainly enjoy this CD a lot because it borrows a lot of the styles of what Patrick O'Hearn composed and recorded during the 1980s. The most O'Hearn inspired tracks are the beautiful opener "Stormchaser" with it's stormy melody and exotic rhythm, the eerie "Alone At the Shore", "Wild Things" and "The Blue Sun" which almost sounds like something that could've come from O'Hearn's 1986 album "Between Two Worlds".

However other songs also have a distinguishable style with "Emeralds" being such a beautiful and heavily rhythmic beat, hauntingly beautiful melody, and a really cool chord change during the middle of the song.

While this album might have been slightly clouded by being a little too much like copying O'Hearn's 1980s style music, "Between Green and Blue" is a fabulous debut album from Helpling and I highly recommend purchasing a copy of this wonderful album.