Customer Reviews

Secret Call

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3 star:		(1)
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I have loved this collection since I first heard a track at a Barnes & Noble store. This music has moved me in the wee hours of the morning, in the dark with headphones. It has helped me on long, and short, drives up and down the American West Coast.

My very favorite track is 12 "The Maidenhair Tree". "Feast of Secrets", on the other hand, has provided the dreamiest sound scape for my mind to wander about.

Highly recommended.

When I first heard a track from this artist on a Earthtone Various Artists CD[actually two tracks],I was very much impressed! I actually wanted the CD right then and there.So, since I was in a Borders,I decided to look for the album.As a big coincidence, the exact album I was looking for was in a front row of CDs! So, I got it.It was pretty darn good! I liked all the tracks from 1# to 9#, including the poem at the end of the CD.The other tracks, to me ,were dull and boring.That's why I decided to rate this four stars instead of five.Overall, this CD still should be in everybody's New Age collection[except for those who like the quieter version of New Age]. And so, this is Ed signing off.

Ginkgo Garden is the name of the musical project of the German composer and musician Eddy F. Mueller. Ginkgo stand for the hommage to ginkgo biloba, a tree, the oldest plant of Planet Earth. Ginkgo Garden is also named "living fossil" It is a unique phenomenon in the plant world and myths as well as tales have been created about it, inspiring Eddy F. Mueller to use the theme ginkgo for his music.

"Garden" stands for a musical garden in which Eddy has planted his complex instrumental titles to let them flourish in a symbiotic way and in order to sensitize the listener's senses. At the same time Eddy has adopted William Shakespeare's motto: " I want to touch the people's hearts".

The first Ginkgo Garden album was entitled "Leaves of Hope (1993) and a year after the release of the first album Eddy could not put down his thoughts of the fascinating theme of Ginkgo and its varied symbolism. It was not to be long until Eddy continued working on Ginkgo Garden, which had been intended to be a one-CD project only at the beginning. Inspired by a "Secret Call" Eddy F. Mueller wrote new instrumental titles and tried to do even more musical justice to the "wonder tree" Ginkgo as a symbol of the uniting of opposites (East/West; day/night; black/white; loud/low); nevertheless Eddy F. Mueller did not neglect the entertaining aspect of music.

Very nice CD with some great tracks. Especially, I liked Woodland Ride and Feast of Secrets. I bought used...and was very happy with the purchase.

When I first heard a track from this artist on a Earthtone Various Artists CD[actually two tracks],I was very much impressed! I actually wanted the CD right then and there.So,I decided to look for the album.As a big coincidence, the exact album I was looking for was in a front row of CDs! So, I got it.It was pretty darn good! I liked all the tracks from 1# to 9#, including the poem at the end of the CD.The other tracks, to me ,were dull and boring.That's why I decided to rate this four stars instead of five.Overall, this CD still should be in everybody's New Age collection[except for those who like the quieter version of New Age]. And so, this is Ed signing off.

Unlike the first review on this CD, I would not compare it to Enya. I have MANY New Age artists in my CD library and this sound is refreshingly new. There are some tracks with hints of Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, et al., but in the main this CD is unique.

Another comment that is in order is the good quality of this recording. The high frequencies are crystal-clear and the bass is nice and tight.

I really liked 10 out of the 13 tracks...not bad in comparison to many other CDs which sell because of one or two songs.

Un primer tema realmente precioso por su grandiosidad, Secret Call, donde las armonías vocales se fusionan con la música ¿Son voces? ¿Son sintetizadores?
Música electrónica de toque new age, con buen gusto, previa a la degeneración que llegaría con el sonido tecno "enlatado"