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	Tales of Heaven & Hell Wendy Carlos East Side Digital, 2003 average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

To those who desire Carlos to be Bach and more Bach and nothing else ("we like your early movies, you know, the *funny* ones!"), better skip this one. The same subtleties are here as her famous Baroque arrangements: top-rate performances, ear-catching timbres and stereo soundscapes, and some truly lovely passages. But the music is mostly new (a portion is based on themes from her score to Kubrick's Clockwork Orange). Tales of Heaven and Hell is not for all tastes, but it is meaty, exotic and irresistible fare for the bored and the adventurous. Recommended.

A too-often bored music fan

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very nearly a masterpiece

Tales lacks the sheer novelty of all the clangerous tones and tunings of beauty in the beast. . . but I think that's part of the point. This album is a somewhat more homogenous sound-world. Some previous reviewers have mentioned that the music sounds horror-movie cliched. . . well I think that, too, is part of the point. Carlos likes to plant her tongue firmly in cheek and play with convention in an artistic way- what's known as satire. Most Americans seem to have trouble digesting a serious work that is funny (and vice versa); this sort of thing is natural to Western Europeans, especially the English. As for Wendy's "lyrics," well, the same thing applies. I thought they were hilarious and perfectly set. It might seem negative to review an album simply by refuting previous reviews, so I'll leave by simply saying that this is beautiful, rich music, and is head and shoulders above any other electronic recorded music now being made. "Clockwork Black" is like a fun-house ride through horror-movie drama. "Afterlife" is, as Carlos states, more genuinely scary from an intellectual standpoint. The hair on the back of my neck did, as they say, stand on end. This album is a lighthearted look at evil, or, perhaps more bluntly, serious fun.

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A Powerful Interactive Experience

Tales has all the elements of a great Gothic classic. Forces of good and evil are well represented with startlingly strong melodic themes that haunt, frighten and reassure.The artist evolks strong emotions crafting and weaving her melodies with a masterful sonic palett representing God, Angels, Satan, his legions, and us ...: the victims, or game pieces, soldiers or totally oblivious. What you bring to the listening experience in imagination you get back in spades! Strongly recommend it!


Scary!

I picked this CD up to use as background music for our ghost story reading night. Our guests were frightened more by the music than the stories. A great listen for thost dark stormy nights.

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Interesting and different but excellant

I learned about Wendy Carlos in a music class with Dr. Julius Zsako at Seton Hall University and I really enjoyed the samples played in class so i went out and baught the cd. This cd is innovative and terrific, everyone must own it.


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