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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another treasure from Jenkings and Helpling,
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This review is from: The Crossing (Audio CD)
My quick review of this great new album:`Awake' has a very unassuming beginning but finishes with an energetic flourish. `Two Paths' provides a nice rhythm with some faster paced lines seemingly fading in and out of the background that really adds some energy. There is also some fantastic percussion in a track that is really befitting it's name. `The Same Sky' is beautiful, flowing track that makes the perfect soundtrack for watching clouds go by. `The Crossing' has a deep mysterious feel at the beginning and then opens up about half way through with some big percussion and another strong finish. `For the Fallen' begins quietly enough but then builds up to an emotionally strong second half. `The Lesson' offers a very intriguing change in instrumentation and layers that creates an erotic-type of mood, further developed by the guitars that make their entrance early on. This track has a sound unlike most of the others on the album. `To the Ends of the Earth' begins and ends with a very ethereal mood, but in between the rhythm really ramps up, giving the feel of an action movie score cue. The album finishes off with `Lifted' which, not surprisingly, is a very uplifting track with a nice positive vibe. A great way to finish off the album!! What I really enjoyed about the album is the ramp up of the energy and really strong finishes in many of the tracks. So many other albums seem to want to put you to sleep by slipping from one track to the next, but this one puts you at ease at first, then they bring on the power and the goose bumps. Just like their previous album "Treasure", this is no ordinary new age album. Unfortunately, like many of the albums of this type, the sound samples will not even begin to do it justice. So just pick this one up anyway, you won't be disappointed!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A marvelous Crossing beyond the Treasure!,
This review is from: The Crossing (Audio CD)
Both David Helpling and Jon Jenkins as solo artists put out truly remarkable, magical albums, the former wiht "Between Green & Blue" and "Sleeping on the Edge of The World", and the latter with the eerie "Flow" and foggy-urbanite "Beyond City Light", all of which are magnificent CDs of their own nature.Yet came 2007, the two artists brought their magical styles together to create what I considered at the time, and still do, among the best New Age albums of all time, "Treasure" which was totally different from either artists solo albums and yet took me on a journey into a totally different sonic landscape, or should I say deep chasm, of beauty and spirit especially during foggy or rainy nights on the edge of civilization. Three years later, low and behold, a deeply anticipated follow-up "The Crossing" is released and WOW! I never thought they'd be able to but here, I think they even managed to surpass "Treasure". "The Crossing" I've had for only four months and already, I can sense that this will become perhaps among my top twenty favorite New Age released of all time. The previous CD "Treasure" had a dark, late night, feel of leaving civilization as a whole or as the cover portrayed, going into a deep cave beyond daylight and into the unknown. "The Crossing" on the other hand, has a slightly brighter but at the same time, colder mood altogether. The mountaintop poking through low clouds at sunset perfectly defines the actual mood of "The Crossing": Gray, evening, sunset, wintry, and very cold in feel yet exhibiting beauty of a rare scale. The opening notes of "Awake" almost sound perfectly identical to the echoing notes of the ending of "The First Goodbye" from the previous album only for it to begin and culminate in an intense and urgent-feeling track. Some of my favorites are "From The Smallest Seed" which has a haunting and ethereal atmosphere not to mention a marvelous melody and chord structure. Towards the last minute and a half, it culminates into an intense and adventurous track that has very strong elements of Helplings solo material, especially from his second album. Another favorite is "Above All" which has a very ominous atmosphere, very much like flying over a mountainous landscape during winter, at sunset and above the clouds, almost like the album cover. "For The Fallen" is pure beauty with a strange blend of beautiful and ominous in one. The first half of the song reminds me of Jenkins "Flow" era that was released a dozen years before, the second half has more of Helpling's early sound especially from his debut album from the mid 1990s. Much like the previous album, "The Crossing" is among those albums that does not have a second-half slump but is consistent throughout from start to finish. That consistency is brought to a glorious close with "Lifted" which has a beautiful build up intro and culminating with a haunting blend of rhythm, keyboard arrangement, and even having some rock guitar riffs during the songs climax. Pure aural beauty and a glorious conclusion to "The Crossing". While not trying to change the subject too much, both Helpling and Jenkins are among my favorite New Age artists and from my perspective, both seem like successors to Patrick O'Hearn, since both seem to share common elements with O'Hearn and their styles have similar feel, at least to my ears. For those who are fans of Patrick O'Hearn or even Mars Lasar, I would absolutely recommend Helping and Jenkins "The Crossing" as the wait for O'Hearns next release after "Glaciation" enters it's fourth year.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yet another great album by David Helpling and Jon Jenkins,
By Raymond Francel (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Crossing (Audio CD)
From the moment I first heard David Helpling's "Sleeping on the Edge of the World" album I was all in. The music Mr. Helpling creates is very ambient and moving. It is not background or elevator music. It is very deep, complex, layered, and wonderfully produced music that is tops in the genre.The latest album,"The Crossing", is a wonderful and beautiful album, just as their previous album, "Treasure". If you are into the ambient, new age type music, these are two of the top artists making some great music with production that compares to none.
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