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Trust

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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".

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.

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.

Once again, I find myself reviewing a disc I've owned & enjoyed for years. I've been an O'Hearn fan since '88 and own ALL of his solo albums. Trust is another tremendous release from one of the greatest visionaries in the industry today. Patrick O'Hearn is held in the highest ranks within the small inner circle of the music "biz". His fans include the likes of Peter Gabriel and Sting to name just a couple (and I think those two guys have pretty good ears). With Trust, O'hearn continues with his tradition of atmospheric recordings that challenge, provoke and stimulate. PO is not for the average consumer of shiny, plastic mass production materials. O'Hearn is for those who don't just think outside the box but live outside the box. His work employs simple themes developed into melodies and crescendos that are sure to inspire. His masterful utilization of synthesizers, clay pots, drums, guitars and of course his forte' the bass (among other things)create magnificent soundscapes that bring you on wonderous journeys. O'Hearn is not the kind of artist you put in the tray once and determine whether or not you like the disc. O'Hearn's work demands the time of repeated play. Patrick's work requires at least half a dozen listen's before the unfamiliar can begin to become comfortable. I recommend the first three times through you use it as background noise prior to really sitting down and sinking your ears into it and never less than 6 listens before you venture into the world of headphones. PO's music offers a lot to digest and can be overwhelming if you try to listen to it all right away. Just listen to the basic tracks vaguely and gradually get closer to the source as your familiarity increases. Trust is no exception. It is truly a great piece of work, emotive and full of powerful images. Songs that are introduced in a simple fashion, simple themes that develop character, layers and texture over the life of the song. Meter marking percussion woven in frettless bass, textural guitars and synthesised keys. Rhythms that start off walking and work to a gallop, these are the signatures of O'Hearn compositions. In Trust, I recall only 2 tracks that are not up to par. Trust is yet another Gem in Patrick O'Hearn's library.

Patrick O' Hearn has created another masterpiece with Trust, its another dark one like Between Two Worlds only its a little different. Even though Metaphor was more of a daytime album he uses some of the same sounds from it.

"Liberty" starts out with guitars and later comes in with keyboards. "Equinox" also has great keyboards in it and is one of my favorites just like Liberty. My favorite one on the album is "3 Circles" it uses many dark sounds in it and it was the first one I heard from this album. Than that takes us to "Farewell" which has a nice soft hymning sounds with other keyboards.

In my opinion, all of Patrick O' Hearns albums are masterpieces. Buy all of his albums TODAY!!

It's strange that several reviews exist for "Metaphor", yet none for this earlier album which I consider to be among O'Hearn's best effort. Whereas "Metaphor" was a little letdown for me, "Trust" is one of those albums that will accompany me for the rest of my life. From the first time I listened to "Trust" a few years ago, I have been captivated by its timeless and haunting atmosphere. O'Hearn is uniquely gifted in his abiltiy to sculp a sonic landscape that engulfs his audience. His soundscape is a place I want to visit over and over again. I wish O'Hearn had more mainstream recognition. I have been waiting for a new album of his for at least 3 years and his personal website seems to be offline, leaving me clueless to his current activities. I hope Pat O'Hearn's unique voice resurfaces soon!

With the eception of perhaps "Rivers Gonna Rise", this is, for me, O'Hearn's weakest release. Too repetitive and atypically visionless. The exceptions being the title track and "3 Circles", two lilty and delicate little nocturnal masterworks. Beautiful! If only I could speak as well for the rest...

I remember getting Trust a few years ago and listening to it a handful of times. It never quite captured me, so I filed it away (none of the material stood out). I recently decided to listen to it again to see if I could get more out of it. I've decided that Trust is pretty good. It's quite moody and dark. The songwriting is satisfying. Patrick O'Hearn has always had his own sound. None of the tracks are bad. I don't have any favorites, though. The album's production is nice and full in sound. The keyboard playing isn't disappointing, either. Patrick O'Hearn is a very good musician. He plays bass, percussion, and textural guitar on the album, too. He has other musicians that play on the disc, also. A couple of them are Warren Cuccurullo and Terry Bozzio (Patrick O'Hearn's former bandmates from Missing Persons). Warren Cuccurullo plays the guitar on "Liberty." Terry Bozzio plays the Turkish drum on "Two Continents." Trust has some interesting moments throughout. The album cover (photograph of a hand) is also intriguing. Trust isn't a personal favorite, but it's still worth a listen.

Not as good as some of his older albums, but some gems.

Listeners who enjoy this album should try "The Private Music of Tangerine Dream." I would call Patrick O'Hearns style "Experimental Jazz-based New Age." Similar to Tangerine Dream, but the sounds here are not so exotic. The whole album is good; the track "Two Continents" is excellent, "Synergy" is one of his melodically super-slow songs -- but not quite as excellent as the others because the melody does not dominate the background enough. Metaphor, Indigo, and Eldorado are my favorite albums of his (in order).