Between Two Worlds

Patrick O'Hearn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Private Music
• ASIN: B0000000IG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,683 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rain Maker

2. Sky Juice

3. Cape Perpetual

4. Gentle Was the Night

5. Fire Ritual

6. 87 Dreams of a Lifetime

7. Dimension D

8. Forever the Optimist

9. Journey to Yoroba

10. Between Two Worlds

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sonically stunning on all fronts., November 24, 2001

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

This review is from: Between Two Worlds (Audio CD)

This is an essential new age album that you should not pass up. This was Patrick O'hearns best album before his new album surpassed it. This is probably Patricks most space oriented of his electronic albums to date. It's the dark electronic, rainy music that makes me love this album. Every song on here is a breakthrough for this extremely talented musician. Some songs I remember hearing when I was very young.

Rainmaker is a very haunting song with an intense misty atmosphere with some ceramic percussion. Sky Juice is a breathtaking song with very electronic synths and some jet sound effects with some thumping beats and a cool bass. However that is nothing like the next one. Cape Perpetual is beyond any word I can describe about this song. It's a very spooky track. It starts of with some strange breezy wind instruments and some thundering sounds in the distance. At about 30 seconds there are some synthesizer hums that fade in. The sound of the synth humming almost scared me at first listening. It then becomes a dark very space oriented song with ceramic percussion and thundering jet sound effects. I could close my eyes listening to this song and imagine myself traveling on the Orient Express through oriental space. This song alone makes this album a five star. Gentle Was The Night is a very beautiful song with just mostly synths. This is a great song. Fire Ritual is a very pop oriented song and some vocal doodling here and there. This is probably the brightest song on here. 87 Dreams Of A Lifetime lives up to the title. This is a very stunning and could rank as one of his best 80s tracks ever. It starts with just some ambient synths and the synths get louder and at about a minute into the song the real music begins. This is a haunting song with a catchy rhythm and a space jazzy stmosphere. This is my second favorite off this album. Dimension D is a very space oriented song with some haunting sound effects and a very dark ambient atmosphere. Forever The Optimistic is a pop oriented song with great electronic bass, a great hook and some synth tinklings throughout the song. I almost cryed when I first heard this song and today I consider this song a new age classic. Journey To Yoroba is another haunting song. It has lots of ceramic percussion and ambient synths. I love the drum loop to this song. The closing title track is great with more great synths and cool drums.

All in all I rank this album as one Mr. O'Hearns strongest masterpieces to date.

It's hard to really say how much I love this album because it really stimulates imagination in a way that none of his other albums can.

In fact this album for a time is almost like the soundtrack my high school years because it reflects lonely I feel sometimes. In fact I strongly recommend this album to all who love music to listen to while thinking. It's very intelligent music that should be enjoyed by all generations.

Well that's all I can say.

Bye!Bye!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and inventive, but not quite the best he's done, July 17, 2000

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Bruce Ewing (Eugene, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Between Two Worlds (Audio CD)

Listeners who enjoy this album should try "The Private Music of Tangerine Dream." I would call Patrick O'Hearns style "Experimental Jazz-based New Age." Similar to Tangerine Dream, but the sounds here are not so exotic. The whole album is good; the track "Sky Juice" is great, also "Forever the Optimist," and "Journey to Yoruba."

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Musical Journey, May 14, 2003

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Alexander Nordquist (Cary, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Between Two Worlds (Audio CD)

Between Two Worlds is another great CD from Patrick O' Hearn. I noticed when I listened to the album that he uses many of the same sounds that he did in Ancient Dreams. I purchased the album off of amazon a while before knowing only the the song "between two worlds" and I loved listening to it. The very first time I heard Patrick O' Hearns music was on Indigo and I knew right then that I had to get more albums by him. I thought this was one of his best but probably Indigo is my favorite. Between Two Worlds would be an okay album to start off with but in my opinion Indigo or Ancient Dreams would be better."Rain Maker" is an excellent one he plays one tune and than adds other dark sounds around it."Gentle was the Night" is a soft and soothing song with great keyboard sounds. In "Fire Ritual" he uses a variety of voices along with more sounds."87 dreams of a lifetime" starts out soft and than comes in with drums. Then that takes us to the title track witch mostly has the same tune with some other little small instruments around it.

All in all, between two worlds is excellent. I hope my review was helpful to any of you who would like to buy this album and I hope you all enjoy Patrick O' Hearns music.