Trust

Patrick O'Hearn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Deep Cave Records
• ASIN: B000005EM3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,960 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moody, Deep, Twilight Sound, October 7, 2002

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Jerry Fry (Freeman, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trust (Audio CD)

I bought "Ancient Dreams" on LP in the early nineties. It was the first time I'd ever heard any of Patrick O'Hearns music. I ended up buying everything of his I could find. I thought "Trust" sounded more like his first two albums. I like everything I've got by Patrick O'Hearn but "Trust" is still my favorite. I think "Two Continents" is one of his best songs. "Lone Man" is a good musical representation of the artifact from Cousquer Cave, a feel of what it was like to be alive in 12000 B.C. and wandering a sparsely populated Earth. The songs "Trust" and "Farewell" are also highlights on this album. Most of these songs have a lonely feeling to them but they are beautiful and not "down" songs. Yes, many of these songs do have repetitive stretches in them, but most all of his music does. Some of the repetition on "Between Two Worlds" can almost drive you crazy if you have headphones on while lying down and fall asleep with your player on repeat. You keep hearing the same thing over and over in a dream. But like "Between Two Worlds", the music on "Trust" is still beautiful and has a dramatic element to it. If you like "Between Two Worlds" I predict you will like "Trust".

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I have Trust with this marvelous CD., December 20, 2001

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Distant Voyageur "Nicholas Computer" (Io) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trust (Audio CD)

I bought this CD on October 20, 1998. It's funny that I can remember the exact dates that I bought CDs. This album is one ambient Journey for the mind and soul. This album has plenty of electronic synthesizers for fans of his earlier material. The music is dark, mysterious, and ambient.

Liberty kicks this CD with a bang with creepy melodies, electronic blips, and his trademark sound. This song is sort of like what would go on his Rivers Gonna Rise CD but this song is much darker than the darkest song off that album. Two Continents is beyond words. It's similar to Liberty but the one thing that makes this song a standout is the intense Turkish drums. Equinox is radiant with it's ambient synthesizers, thundering drums, and mournful melody. Thr title track is one of the best songs O'Hearn has ever recorded. It's a six and a half minute song with very strong ambience, pianos, and echoing drums. Definately a highlight. Synergy is another favorite song of this album. It has strong rhythm that may actually make you bop your head along and there are some blips that go along with the beat. The Lone Man is absolute exquisite. It's a very mournful song with mostly just new age synths that paved the way for the Metaphor album that followed this one. Towards the ending there are creepy dark keyboards that leave this album forever written into my memory. Patrick O'Hearn would sample this song in the title track for his crowning acievement So Flows The Current album. This song is one of Patrick's most creative songs to date. Three Circles is a very space oriented song with very haunting synthesizers, maracas, and strange drums. Farewell is a very misty, very sad song with mostly hounting keyboards, some bells and breeze sound effects to create a very sad masterpiece song that will make you cry. It closes out this very dark masterpiece.

This is a very unique album from my all-time favorite New Age musician. It's a very deep album with lots of emotion that the songs express through their melodies. I strongly recommend that you get this CD. It's a very beautiful album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Trust that this CD is timeless, August 25, 2002

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Distant Voyageur "Nicholas Computer" (Io) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trust (Audio CD)

I bought this CD on October 20, 1998 and what a purchase! His first album in four years at the time of it's release Trust is a welcome return for the meistro of New Age, Patrick O'Hearn. This album finds Patrick moving into more medievel and more tribal sounds especially with Metaphor. However there are alot of the electronic trademark sounds present on here. The music is dark, very melancholy, but a smidgey bit brighter than 1991s Indigo.

The leadoff track Liberty sets the general mood of the album. It's a very haunting track with lots of Ancient Dreams-esque synthesizers. I love the creepy middle part of the song where it pauses and has that breezy sounds like distant voices. Haunting! Two Contintents starts off with eerie keyboards and a light echoing beat before Turkish drums come marching in. Two Continents is unlike anything O'Hearn has done at the time of Trust's release. Definately one of the highlights. Equinox is a slightly brighter track than the previous two but still a far cry from the sunniness of Rivers Gonna Rise. Equinox has awesome rumbling beats too. This one needs to be heard to know how it really is. The title track is my favorite song on the CD. It's a very ambient groovy song with echoing drum percussion and very strong ambience. This track like Equinox needs listening to know how it sounds like. I enjoy this song in it's uncut 6 minute 30 glory as opposed to the 4 minute 30 second version on Elevation 2. Synergy is the most upbeat track on this entire CD. Synergy has bleeping sound effects to go along with the slightly danceable beat and the strong blissful ambience. The Lone Man is gorgeous. It's a very quiet serene track that slowly builds up towards the ending and culminates with low-pitched keyboards giving the song a very dramatic feel. I just love the ominous keyboards during the last 30 seconds of the song. This song would be sampled on the title track of his best album So Flows The Current on the incredible title track. Three Circles is another haunting track. This song is somewhat similar to Two Continents with worldly drums except this one is spacier and more serene and darker in feel. Farewell gets my honor as one of the most melancholy tracks that O'Hearn has ever composed. It's a very mournful minor note track with no beats and just mostly ambient keyboards and breeze sound effects.

Trust in my opinion is truly an aural feast. After the unfortunate disbanding of the Private Music label O'Hearns career has lasted even with Deep Cave disbanding shortly after this album was released.

I'm sure some fans especially those who are more into Ancient Dreams might find Trust to be a bit dissapointing but for me I recommend this to just about any O'Hearn and especially New Age lovers.