Morning Dove White

One Dove | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 1993)
• Label: Uni/Full Frequency Range Recor
• ASIN: B000003R4E
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,374 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fallen

2. White Love [Guitar Paradise Mix]

3. Breakdown [Cellophane Boat Mix]

4. There Goes the Cure

5. Sirens

6. (The Transient) Truth

7. My Friend

8. Why Don't You Take Me

9. White Love (Piano Reprise)

10. White Love [Radio Mix]

11. Breakdown [Radio Mix]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful. Gorgeous. Intoxicating., June 25, 2001

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Tim Down - See all my reviews

This review is from: Morning Dove White (Audio CD)

This is a truly beautiful, uplifting and seemingly forgotten album. No review of it I've seen has been able to resist comparing it to 'Screamadelica' (and who am I to break with tradition?) and that is certainly the easiest reference point to use to describe the sound, but of the two albums I much prefer 'Morning Dove White'. While the music itself (elements of dub, ambient and pop, combined with Proper Songs) is inspirational enough, it's the voice of Dot Allison that makes this album so special. From the opening bars of 'Fallen' (the first track on the album and also the band's first single) as she confides 'I don't know why I'm telling you any of this...' her voice sends shivers down your spine. Emotive, expressive and incredibly seductive, her voice is all over this album in breathy background whispers, lead vocals and harmonies to just lose yourself in. But there is more to One Dove than just Dot, as shown by 'There Goes The Cure', one of my favourite tracks which is also largely instrumental.

One Dove recorded a follow-up album which was never released and split up shortly afterwards, which while being pretty tragic does at least mean that their mystique as a lost treasure remains intact. But even 'Morning Dove White' is flawed - at the insistence of the record company it ends weakly with the single remixes of 'Breakdown' and 'White Love', which while being fine pop songs are elsewhere on the album in better forms. 'My Friend' is an instrumental and feels half-baked in comparison to the rest of the album. Now if they'd lost those tracks and put 'Jolene' and 'Skanga' from the single release of 'Why Don't You Take Me' (if you find a copy, buy it) on, they would have had an almost perfect album. But who wants perfection?

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shamefully overlooked and underrated..., August 22, 1999

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D. Mok (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Morning Dove White (Audio CD)

With Dot Allison finally release solo work, it's time to take notice of this Scottish band which she fronted before launching herself into her own glory.

Allison's trademark multi-tracked choir vocals are already here, backed by instrumentalists Jim McKinven and Ian Carmichael. The result is a stunning, beautiful, sometimes wrenching dance/pop hybrid with much more flair in the arrangements than nine out of ten techno acts out there. Check out the keyboard work on the two versions of "White Love", or the acoustic guitar that gives "Breakdown" its extra rhythmic punch.

"Breakdown" was the single that should have made this band a superstar act. Instead, the album made a few ripples quietly among record hounds (those who bother to look for albums, instead of just grabbing them off the shelves closest to the exit) and then faded. It's now very hard to find if not for internet resources. And it's a shame, for One Dove was a hidden gem.

Let's hope Dot Allison, set to release her own Afterglow album, won't be overlooked a second time with her solo career. Hers is a subtle, powerful, and rare vocal ability, and when she sings with herself (here on this album or on the "Colour Me" single), it's harmonic magic.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can this be Dot Allison's White album, morning dove that is., October 24, 2001

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Daniel J. Hamlow (Narita, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Morning Dove White (Audio CD)

Preparations for One Dove's Morning Dove White: Make sure it's your day off. Turn on the answering machine or better yet, unplug the phone. Wear something comfortable, lie back on the bed or sofa of your choice, plug CD in your stereo system at a volume that will have the full effect, and prepare to enter free float.

A constant backbeat of synthesizer opens "Fallen". Dot's spoken word dialogue comes in around the first minute. All the while, the music builds up, new instruments start coming in, and by the second minute, the ambient atmosphere, "I'm falling" and we're in full swing, or is it full float? Dot's whispery voices, sighs, funky beats, breathy synthesizers.

You'll be taken away by the psychedelic guitar that begins the Guitar Paradise Mix of "White Love". It's trippy enough but doesn't rival that of Jimi Hendrix. It clocks in at ten minutes long and one will be ensconced with "I want to keep hold of this for you." whispered or spoken more audibly, soaring and swooping synths, guitar samples, and voices sped up.

"There Goes The Cure" is probably my favorite long song here, beginning with space age sounds, compressed high-hat, The piano is haunting, wistful, and melodic. Dot's voice has been altered so it sounds like there are many of her, during which we mostly hear the gauze-like lament of "he's gone." In the middle, we hear male cries of agony interspersed, as if he's falling, while a string-like synthesizer rises to a crescendo, before stopping and going on with the piano melody.

"The Transient Truth" contains a burst of a buzzing guitar that's not unlike a bumblebee in water, an ambient funk beat, and softly spoken words. "My Friend" is nine plus minutes of the same melody played over ad nauseum, psychedelic sounds, a snare drum, long-drawn out sighs, ambient siren-like vocals, and might be best listened to while on pot or acid.

"Why Don't You Take Me" while a reggaeish synthesizer plays. The piano reprise of "White Love" is a perfect prelude to the radio mix of the same song. This song could be used in any movie's love scene, with sensual sounds.

Upon opening of the eyes, the listener's surroundings may be glowing a morning dove white!

Dot Allison would go on to make a solo album, Afterglow. Fans of ambient would be well advised to take a trip on this album as a prerequisite.