Eldorado [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

Patrick O'Hearn

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: One Way Records Inc
• ASIN: B00004TEVB
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #375,444 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Amazon Waltz

2. Nepalese Tango

3. Black Delilah

4. Chattahoochee Field Day

5. Illusionist

6. One-Eyed Jacks

7. Hear Our Prayer

8. Delicate

9. Eldorado

10. There's Always Tomorrow

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Instrumental CD I've Ever Heard, November 22, 2000

By	Steve Cauley "thecauleys" (Port Isabel, Texas) - See all my reviews

I have been a fan of Patrick O'Hearn for over 10 years. "El Dorado" was my first exposure to his music and I still believe it to be his best. Unlike keyboard artists such as Vangelis, O'Hearn integrates electronic instruments with acoustic, creating a "landscape" of sound that is truly extraordinary. The "rain stick" on the title track is a perfect example of how he so masterfully intigrates primitive, acoustic instruments with the electronic. With songs like "Delicate," I have heard no other artist who can musically set a mood of such deep serenity. All of O'Hearn's CDs are worth owning, but this one remains my all-time favorite.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Real Gold in Eldorado!!!, July 6, 2001

By	"stuca999" (CHARLOTTE, NC United States) - See all my reviews

I've owned this disc since it's release over ten years ago and still enjoy it tremendously. This is certainly one of PO's best! It opens with the gallopping Amazon Waltz and closes with the acoustically founded song of hope and inspiration There's Always Tommorrow. The Illusionist evokes images of slight of hand trickery where the ear is quicker than the eye. Chattahoochie Field Day brings to one's mind childhood thoughts of running through open fields of wheat, chest high in laughter. One Eyed Jacks brings the picture playful deviance layered in sarcasm. Delicate is powerful in it's projection of a synthetic bass line and Angelic vocal harmony. And then there's the title track that I could not appreciate when I was younger and less experienced in the beauty that life has to offer in so many different lights. Eldorado (the song)is a tremendous piece of artistry, full of majesty and imagery as you hear sedentary stone cascading through a miner's pan followed by the exhuberance of discovery. What a volcano that track is. Unquestionabley one of the most moving compositions I have ever had the sheer joy to experience. On Eldorado we find 10 tracks, 8 of which I find outstanding. Songs of exploration, conviction and strength. Instrumentally we find Patrick at the peak of his synthetic arrangements. Similar in instrumentation to his previous release RGR & the folow up to Eldorado Indigo. Later efforts would lend themselves to a tad more acoustic treatment as did music accross the industry from these eras. Eldorado is a great piece of work, it will surely bring you on a journey like only a textbook O'hearn album can. Sure to provide years of adventure, Eldorado stimulates, provokes and challenges. In a word, Eldorado is atmsopheric textural music founded in synthesizers, electric bass, textural guitars and time marking percussion that introduces simple melodies and develops them fully. The mood of Eldorado can be upbeat at times & tracks, reverant at others and still power-centric at others. Eldorado is wel worth the aquisition fee and the time it takes to truly discover it's adventurous beaty. Just keep listening!!! Enjoy, CS.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent jazzy New Age - with my very favorite song, July 18, 2000

By	Bruce Ewing (Eugene, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When you first get a Patrick album, the songs sound nice, but you don't love them immediately. You have to listen to each album every day for 2 weeks to fall in love with a few of the songs. I would call the 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 "Chattahoochee Field Day" is a masterpiece to me. It's my FAVORITE song of his. Very bouncy and beautiful. 3 tracks even have voices on them! As sound effects in "Amazon Waltz," and as LYRICS(!) on track 8, and "chorus" on 9. "Nepalese Tango" (#2), and "There's Always Tomorrow" (#10) are also excellent. Metaphor and Indigo are his only albums better than this one. Both have music similar to this album.