El Dorado [Original recording reissued]

Patrick O'Hearn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: One Way Records Inc
• ASIN: B00004TEVB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,691 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Amazon Waltz

2. Nepalese Tango

3. Black Delilah

4. Chattahochee Field Day

5. The Illusionist

6. One Eyed Jacks

7. Hear Our Prayer

8. Delicate

9. Eldorado

10. There's Always Tomorrow

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new style takes form on here., November 24, 2004

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

This review is from: Eldorado (Audio CD)

This is different from most of his earlier masterworks Ancient Dreams, Between Two Worlds and Rivers Gonna Rise. While this album has a lot of the trademark sound of the previous ones this album incorporates Middle Eastern and Mayan instruments to create a masterpiece in the world music category.

Amazon Waltz is a jazzy song with Brazilian wind instruments and percussion plus some chants as well. Nepalese Tango is similar to the previous one but not quite as fast and has some worldly bells and drums. I could play this one when driving through the jungle with mountains nearby on a misty day. Black Delilah is a unique track that incorporates stunning cello performances as well as a violin to create a masterwork. Chattahoochie Field day is a very daytime song with bouncy rhythms and a very jazzy vibe to it. The Illuminator is a very electronic song with beautiful synths and some plucky instruments. At the middle of the song the synths sounds very much like the pluck instruments from Enyas Orinoco Flow. This is my favorite song. One Eyed Jacks is another typical jazzy O'Hearn song but still great. Hear Our Prayer is a song with Middle Eastern drums and chants. Delicate is a dark track with the trademark synthesizers but has beautiful haunting chants. The title track is a very intense with thundering rain sound effects and bells. One standout track in this album. There's Always Tomorrow is a somber yet happy track at the same track. It's a nice jazzy closer to this album.

This is probably Mr. O'Hearns last daytime sounding album. This album is a definate masterpiece. It's totally different from the dark, chilling, frightning masterwork Indigo and all latter material that would follow. Definate buy this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Instrumental CD I've Ever Heard, November 21, 2000

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Steve Cauley (Port Isabel, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: El Dorado (Audio CD)

I have been a fan of Patrick O'Hearn for over 10 years. "El Dorado" was my first exposure to his music and I still believe it to be his best. Unlike keyboard artists such as Vangelis, O'Hearn integrates electronic instruments with acoustic, creating a "landscape" of sound that is truly extraordinary. The "rain stick" on the title track is a perfect example of how he so masterfully intigrates primitive, acoustic instruments with the electronic. With songs like "Delicate," I have heard no other artist who can musically set a mood of such deep serenity. All of O'Hearn's CDs are worth owning, but this one remains my all-time favorite.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Real Gold in Eldorado!!!, July 6, 2001

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"stuca999" (CHARLOTTE, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: El Dorado (Audio CD)

I've owned this disc since it's release over ten years ago and still enjoy it tremendously. This is certainly one of PO's best! It opens with the gallopping Amazon Waltz and closes with the acoustically founded song of hope and inspiration There's Always Tommorrow. The Illusionist evokes images of slight of hand trickery where the ear is quicker than the eye. Chattahoochie Field Day brings to one's mind childhood thoughts of running through open fields of wheat, chest high in laughter. One Eyed Jacks brings the picture playful deviance layered in sarcasm. Delicate is powerful in it's projection of a synthetic bass line and Angelic vocal harmony. And then there's the title track that I could not appreciate when I was younger and less experienced in the beauty that life has to offer in so many different lights. Eldorado (the song)is a tremendous piece of artistry, full of majesty and imagery as you hear sedentary stone cascading through a miner's pan followed by the exhuberance of discovery. What a volcano that track is. Unquestionabley one of the most moving compositions I have ever had the sheer joy to experience. On Eldorado we find 10 tracks, 8 of which I find outstanding. Songs of exploration, conviction and strength. Instrumentally we find Patrick at the peak of his synthetic arrangements. Similar in instrumentation to his previous release RGR & the folow up to Eldorado Indigo. Later efforts would lend themselves to a tad more acoustic treatment as did music accross the industry from these eras. Eldorado is a great piece of work, it will surely bring you on a journey like only a textbook O'hearn album can. Sure to provide years of adventure, Eldorado stimulates, provokes and challenges. In a word, Eldorado is atmsopheric textural music founded in synthesizers, electric bass, textural guitars and time marking percussion that introduces simple melodies and develops them fully. The mood of Eldorado can be upbeat at times & tracks, reverant at others and still power-centric at others. Eldorado is wel worth the aquisition fee and the time it takes to truly discover it's adventurous beaty. Just keep listening!!! Enjoy, CS.