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Tia Knight | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: May 30, 2002
• Label: Blackwood Manor Music @
• Copyright: (C) 2002 Blackwood Manor Music @
• Total Length: 50:32
• Genres: New Age/Celtic New Age
• ASIN: B0012ABLO6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #653,158 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ethereal romance, May 21, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Homequest (Audio CD)

An ethereal romance of a CD, Homequest is a hauntingly beautiful release from Tia Knight, a New Age composer whose music fuses electronic sounds with a wide variety of medieval and fantasy elements. Tied into this sense of romance, however, is a darker edge, a sense of cynicism that makes the intricacies of her music all the more fascinating and sets her apart from the dreamy wistfulness of so many other New Age musicians. It is no wonder that among her credentials are a song used in a stage adaptation of Frankenstein and several pieces to be included in the upcoming film, Untold Vampire Tales.
Homequest evokes the Pre-Raphaelite artists who so often balanced images of medieval fantasy and chivalry with more sinister elements, such as the many paintings of La Belle Dame Sans Merci, the beautiful yet evil woman taken from Keats' poem, who bewitches those knights and nobles who are unlucky enough to cross her path. These multifaceted compositions both entrance and unnerve, and Knight's music has the same quality, simultaneously attractive and spine-chilling. The CD's title track is actually the lightest piece on the album, a neo-medieval etude that reflects the elation of coming home after a long quest, along with the trepidation one might feel after such an absence.
"Illusions" features eerily familiar yet unplaceable vocals dubbed over the synthesized fantasia of a song; it weaves a fragmentary story in one's mind, leaving it up to the listener to fill in the missing pieces.
"Soldier's Requiem," on the other hand, is disturbingly at odds with its title. Less like a funeral hymn than a gavotte or pavane, its dance-like tempo sways on as if the dancing and celebration continues, despite loss in an uncaring world. This irony continues into other tracks, such as "Betrayal," where subtle strings creep along in a dance of deception that conjures up images of a Machiavellian dance party. In contrast, the piece "Sojourn" combines electronic sounds and synthesized vocals with bells, zils, and flutes, in a Tolkein-esque escape into fantasy. The hypnotic "Fatima's Dream" and "Perfect Love" fuse techno beats with medieval and Middle Eastern influences.
Tia Knight's works are odes to the imagination and the power of creativity and fantasy. Their refreshing mixture of sweet and caustic is a welcome change from so much New Age music, and will appeal to a wide variety of musical tastes.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars so magical !!, December 25, 2003

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phyliss hill (tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Homequest (Audio CD)

This is so magical !! I want more....when I first heard the music It sounded so familiar.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars light and love!, April 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Homequest (Audio CD)

Just want you to know that you have a very special gift for expressing the yearnings of the collective conscious and your own special giftline. I know I will enjoy your amazing music for, I hope, my whole life. Blessings to you in your expressing and creating light and love!