Cinematic Life

Eliott James | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 2, 2006)
• Original Release Date: October 18, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Wateree Recordings
• ASIN: B000CA92WU
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #913,177 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Overated, mediocre quality and attempt at fusing genres and styles of music., July 21, 2007

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Music Bookworm "Music is the key to my soul" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cinematic Life (Audio CD)

I really wanted to like this CD after reading a few reviews but I felt the reviews and testimonials were rather dishonest. I felt the quality of the recordings could have been improved and I felt it was lacking musically. The use of instrumentation, playability and composition could have been improved and found nothing innovative about his music.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eliott James crafts a hypnotic synnergy of beats and grooves, January 24, 2006

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D. Ledonne "Danny Ledonne" (Alamosa, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinematic Life (Audio CD)

I played nearly all this CD on my radio show tonight. I generally don't allow an artist more than 10 minutes at a time but James' music was so dynamic, so enrapturing that it demanded the listener's ear on every track. From mellow to upbeat, long strings to jazz-like sax solos, synthesized beats to sampled natural soundscapes, "Cinematic Life" holds onto you the whole disc through.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The big screen for the mind, March 15, 2006

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medievalcrusadesbabe "ebabsedasurclaveidem" (Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cinematic Life (Audio CD)

Electronic rock is Mr. James forte, and this CD presents some of the best electronic I've heard since Alan Parsons Project. This is an all instrumental composition, with a total playing time of about an hour.

The fusion is rock, jazz and most definitely all electronic. This is smooth beat, and in some instances very dramatic, invoking a feeling of Cinematic grandness, hence the title.

The compositions are for electronic keyboard and guitar. There is some flashy guitar, some soft rock base, percussion that causes your feet to tap in time and a gentle jazzy sway to the feel of the music.

The titles sometimes evoke a feeling to the music, but the music speaks for itself. The lead off "say it" is very jazzy with a great backbeat. The CD progresses forward from there, never stopping to look back till the end.

second chance presents electronic guitar with electronic backfill and complimentary keyboard to give us a good composition and again, creating the grand feeling of cinema. Could be a theme song for a movie.

I like the electronic bits this music has to offer. Some distorted guitar in the track in the deep gives a touch of surrealism to the composition. The scale running up and down gives a feeling of movement to the music and I came away with a feeling of a Dali ocean painting in motion, very graceful, in a distinct sort of way.

say it reprises at the end of this CD, and we come back to where we began. We are brought back to the beginning of our trip, and we settle in to reflect on the ride.

Overall a nice presentation, and while a few bits disappointed, the overall picture is exciting and very energetic. A nice work by Eliott James and hopefully he will explore this genre further with another CD. maf