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There is something about this album that brings me back to it over and over, especially when driving on long road trips, or camping beside an American river. The music is at times haunting or lilting, conjuring images of mountain streams splashing over boulders, or mighty methodical waterways with their mesmerizing rhythm, and a touch of melancholy that the river goes ever on and on, oblivious to my presence. Some of the Amazon samples are not nearly long enough to convey the feeling of the tracks.
While I prefer the instrumental tracks, the spoken tracks have become almost like instrumentals to me, with their subdued, cadenced tones. The only thing missing is a guest who could give tribute to the high mountain streams west of the Mississippi. (I guess that was left to Dan Fogelberg.)
I wish Elias would follow up with another album of the same music. I have searched mostly in vain for other works that match the sound of this album. You can, however, hear a similar viola-based soundtrack for the "Five Farms" series from Duke University and Public Radio International, written by Wesley Horner (you can google it). Mr. Horner, alas, is not a recording artist. Perhaps Mr. Elias would like to do a "Five Farms" project!
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