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Indigo

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This is one of P.O.'s most brilliant magical landmark albums to date. This is a complete departure from the sunny daytime feel of El Dorado and Rivers Gonna Rise. This is a very dark and more midievel sounding recoed that shatters new grounds in his music and is one of his strongest albums to date.

Devils Lake is a very scary sounding song with echoing pianos and a very ominous sound. At 3:56 some electronic percussion and some rhythm comes in giving a feel of traveling through space towards a glowing cluster of stars. Sacrifice is a haunting track with very dark tingling synths for about the first 3 and a half minutes. At about 2:40 drums come in and real add on to the song. The horns are beatiful. When I close my eyes when listening to this song I could imagine being out in the forest in the dead of night and then all of a sudden a green glowing, wide-eyed warrior ghost on a chariot coming out of the background being pulled by horses. Coba is beyond what words can say alone. It's a very frightening song with echoing drums and very nighttime synths. I love the intense bridge with strong synths from 2:18 to 3:00. It then ends with the ambient synths continuing. This is my favorite song on this album. Upon The Wings Of Night is what the title says. It's a most ambient song with trumpets but they really sound great.Sacret Heart is another beautiful but a tad bit brighter but still dark and spacey. The Beauty Within is another beatiful but with echoing pianos but at the last 30 seconds the pianos give away to pulsating synths and fade out. What an amazing song. Desire is absolutely magical. It starts out with dazzling synths. Then some drums come in. This is one of the best songs on this album. Ringmasters Dream is very unique. It starts off as an ambient track but then later it gradually morphs into a sort of orchestraesque song and then fades into carnival sounds at the ending. Espana is a truly magical closing track to this CD. It a very peaceful with a truly melancholy feel. A great closer to this CD.

This is one of Mr. O'Hearns strongest albums to date. It's so much different from his earlier works and paved the way for his more midievel sounding material works afterwards. This is an essential recoeding for fans of Patrick O'Hearn and all New Age lovers.

Ok, let me start by saying I'm not particularly fond of Between two worlds, rivers gonna rise, or eldorado. On the other hand I can't get enough of the soundscapes he returned to with this disk and apparently will stay with from here on.

Indigo was the record that made me an ohearn fan back in the mid 90's. This record has certainly spent significantly more time in my cdplayer than any other over the years. I can't seem to wear it out.

This is dark (but pretty) ambient with frequent interludes of what by new age standards are fairly violent tribal druming.

Until So flows the current (his best) came out a couple years back, this stood as the record with the most sophisticated and complete tracks. More layers, better production.

if you like O'hearn, this album is a must have.

O'Hearn is a magical composer. I don't know music well enough to give you technical keywords, but I can tell you that it is nothing short of brilliant, and nearly timeless. The tune of in 'Espana', especially, has haunted me over the years, combining elements of nostalgia, solitude, and taking you away from the present happenings... it slows you down to freeze on a larger perspective; In 'Coba', 'Sacred Heart', and 'Upon the wings..' you will find a tremendouly up-beat swing, a strong rhythmic pulse with enchanting tunes. I fell in love with this album at once.

Great Cd. i have been a Patrick Ohearn fan for quite some time. mello, and
adventure, Patrick just has such a unique Style all his own. no one is like
Partick Ohearn. He's the man. Keep up the good work.

This is the last collaboration of Peter Baumann with O'Hearn and he gave it all in full blast. This is like Tangerine Dream's Desert Dream on the Encore album only with O'Hearn's input. This album had become darker, moodier and much more melacholic, it is not a depressing album but is a fitting sountrack for a mystery movie set in the Carpathian mountains. Much of the material here can be heard on his sountrack for the movie "White Sounds". The album cover of a an archetypical wing and portrait of baroque era Meditarranean couple heightens the sinister content this record.

When I'm focusing my attention on a "thinking task", I like music of various "ambient" types -- space music, soundtrack music, techno, and so on. This CD is gentle, melodic, pretty, but not very distracting.

Most people don't seem to like music of this sort. It isn't music that you can sing to, and it isn't music that you can dance to.

This is definitely a 5-star release from Patrick O'Hearn. I first heard "Indigo" in 1991, when it was released, and immediately purchased the CD. I like every track and the CD still plays well. Sorry I don't have anything eloquent to say about it. I just wanted to echo the previous reviews, and say that I agree. Give this a chance, you won't regret it. "The Ringmaster's Dream" sounds like circus/carousel music, which is fun in a spooky kind of way. I wish these tracks were available here on Amazon.com MP3 digital music downloads.

With an air of mystery, subtle menace and occasional majesty, "Indigo" is like the opening soundtrack to some dark-themed movie, portending any number of dire, heavy occurrence to come without actually ever reaching those points. There's no sweetness and light here. Those of you looking for friendly angel guides should look elsewhere; this music explores the opposite end of the spectrum. If these subdued, minimalistic, synthesizer-based compositions were designed for any sort of meditation, it would be a brooding, depressive meditation that I wouldn't recommend as being particularly healthy for long periods of time. But sometimes the cards just fall wrong, and you need a place to go to lick your wounds, re-gather your edge and your self-confidence, and mull over the possibilities such as they now stand. The world of "Indigo" is a good place to do that. Patrick O'Hearn's music is laid back enough to mellow you out, but cool enough--and with just enough percussion fading in and out throughout the album--to nourish your strength, renew your determination and encourage your spirit to rise again. A good retrospective of O'Hearn's work is "The Private Music of Patrick O'Hearn," and my favorite of his albums--similar to Indigo, but livelier and edgier, is "Ancient Dreams." Other synth-driven New Age music that often has a dark edge includes the work of Tangerine Dream, Llewellyn and Amethystium.

I listened to it again, today, 13 years on. It never tires, it never becomes too familiar. It is dark, moody and more consistent than Trust, the complete opposite of Eldorado. It sits alongside TD's Rubycon and KS's Timewind as electronic masterworks that leave you thinking about the music long after it is back in its case. It's brilliance, is that it does not need 20 minutes plus per track to leave you with the sense that the whole album is one whole, each track evolves from the darkness and despair of Devil's Lake to the dreaminess and sadness of Espana.

I enjoy the moodiness of this cd by O'hearn, which is the 3rd of his I owned. It is a real lush experience for all you fans of multi-keyboard spacey synth rock. I cannot go ibto detail, but that is a general description. He is the former key player from Missing Persons, so this is a good mix of 80s pop and New Age.