Kryptos

Andreas Vollenweider (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000009MJG
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,564 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Domus Cordis: Father's Tree/The Painted Gate

2. Morgana Palace

3. Hermes' Wedding

4. Under the Trees of Hope

5. Passionata

6. Wanja the Wanderer (Concerto for Harp and Orchestra)

7. Bhambororo!

8. Forest Folks

9. Quendel and Rhomas

10. Trigon: East of Time/Missa Obscura/South of Time

11. May Green Be the Grass

12. Circulus Finalis: Return of the Heroes/The Heroes' Telling

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vollenweider's Best Work Yet!, February 10, 1999

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Don McCullen (Colorado Springs, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kryptos (Audio CD)

Andreas Vollenweider was always a musician first, and never really cared about being popular as other well known New Age artists like Yanni or John Tesh. His lasted project "Kryptos" returns to what Vollenweider did best in past projects like, "...Behind The Gardens...", "Caverna Magica", and "Dancing With The Lion", however you won't be disappointed. Kryptos is combantion of Classical styles (Wanja The Wanderer), Jazz (Trigon, Passionata), and World Music rangeing from Celtic(May The Green Grass...), to Eastern Asia (Morgana Palace), with a touch of Africa (Bhambororo). Vollenweider as done music of the people that enjoyed his musical advenchures. As long as they listen, he will continune to compose and perform. If you loved Andreas Vollenweider's music in the past. You will love "Kryptos"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another very worthwhile release from Andreas Vollenweider, June 7, 2004

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Thomas M. Croft (Fort Collins, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kryptos (Audio CD)

I've been a big fan of Andreas Vollenweider's music for about 15 years, and I own all of his albums that have been released in the U.S. except the recent "Essential" compilation. My favorites are "Book of Roses," "Eolian Minstrel," "White Winds," and "Caverna Magica."

I resisted buying "Kryptos" for a long time because I had somehow acquired an inaccurate impression of it from some limited sound clips I heard on-line. Finally, on the strength of the positive reviews here, I decided to take a chance on it. I'm now very glad I did. It's just another excellent Andreas Vollenweider album (probably the most like "Book of Roses"), not a major departure from his prior work as I had erroneously believed it to be. There's probably just as much orchestration in general on "Book of Roses" as here, so I disagree with some of the criticisms others have voiced about "over orchestration." In fact, some of the strongest tracks on "Kryptos" (e.g., "Passionata" and "Quendel and Rhomas") are intimate, beautiful duets featuring Andreas on harp along with another solo instrument, similar to what he did later on "Cosmopoly."

I've given this CD four stars instead of five only because I don't think it represents Andreas' strongest work compositionally. There are a few very nice melodies scattered throughout the album, but I think other albums such as "Book of Roses" are a little (but not a lot) stronger musically. Bottom line: I agree with the reviewers who said that true fans of Andreas Vollenweider (especially those who like "Book of Roses") will also enjoy "Kryptos."

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great music with new efforts!!, June 10, 1999

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Young Seok Park "yspak" (Seoul, Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kryptos (Audio CD)

With a big curiosity, I listened to this album. This may not be the very best album in his career but still inspiring and absorbing. And I could feel that Andreas definitely made huge efforts to create some different style of music as he used to do. Particularly, track #2 is very impressive and exiting but is quite familiar with me because of its oriental rhythm. At first, I thought it sounded like JANG-GO, a Korean traditional percussion but realized later it was a Japanese one after reading the liner notes. In many ways, there are commonness in culture among Korea, China and Japan. I think traditional instruments of the three countries basically have that commonness also but all of them differ from one another in sound, color and tone. So... I'd like to advise Andreas to visit Korea to learn about Korean instruments, and of course he should listen to SAMUL-NORI, which is an extremely exciting rendition played by only four traditional percussions. I'm really sure that if he studies Korean instruments, his music will be far more enriched.