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Waterstation

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This was the Toronto-born musician's debut release as a solo artist. Previous to this, Tim Clement had released adult contemporary music as collaborator with fellow Canadian Mychael Danna.

As the musical artist's first solo recording, Waterstation (1990) is, sound-wise, quite admirable at times, a tad medial at others, it gained critical acclaim, but in my view left room for a bit of improvement as far as album duration goes, clocking in at a mere 43:11 in length, containing only 6 tracks.

Two of the tracks are extended and, combined, make up just over twenty minutes of the album's running time alone. These are tracks 3 and 6. On track 3, an instrument called the Egyptian reed flute can be heard.

The music on Waterstation is basically electronic, contemporary instrumental, with a few non-electronic instruments, perfomed by guest musicians, thrown into the mix. Besides the aforementioned flute, on Urantia, the skirl of bagpipes are featured; pictorial of Scotland.

Some twangy steel guitar is played on track 2, the least favorite among the six tracks for me.

I love the opener, Water Breaking Light Dancing: a dreamy, serenely winding, feathery album welcomer.

The penultimate track, however, is, for me, the album's standout. It is practically incomparable, as far as being peculiar, to anything that I have ever heard in music. It is titled Beautiful Lady, and, according to the CD's credits, contains audio from a "Sampler tape of unidentified medium by R. Murray Schafer." This track is certainly offbeat: it's a narration set to a danceable electronic rhythm in which a spirit medium relates his experience of having made contact with a disembodied soul who had been a voodoo priestess. Beautiful Lady is unusual and stands apart in distinction from the rest of the equally quality tracks that make up Waterstation.

Here's another disc I got most likely used...or from some strange source...but once again it started as a tape my brother brought home from the music store he worked at....and I layed claim to it right away....

This disc is quite different....Tim has several different types of songs going on with this disc...it doesnt have a succint sound or feel...he seems to test all his boundaries within form or function...

breaking down the most important parts...the 2 long tracks...music for the meridian figure and the la danse du serpent...they are long commisioned type piano pieces...they are epic and awesome...it's like a composer putting down his best works....both are impressive...

now uranatia may annoy ya a little...depends on your taste....the track is basically a bag pipe solo...i still have trouble getting thru that track and tend to skip it even when i listen to the disc now...

my 2 fave tracks are kind of both in the same light...but are a little different....majhwe's outlook is a definite native american movement....I sent the track to my cousin who is Lakota....and he loved it...now the song beautiful lady takes some time to get used to...it's like a spoken story put to some kind of african tone...but ya really cant pin it down....it's just different....and the song itself kind of pulls you in...

now if you can find this disc...get it...it's good...and of course dont pass up any of tim's work with mychel danna...