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Track Listings
| 1. Paikea Legend (3.29) |
| 2. Journey Away (3.43) |
| 3. Rejection (1.43) |
| 4. Biking Home (3.25) |
| 5. Ancestors (1.43) |
| 6. Suitcase 1.04) |
| 7. Pai Calls The Whales (1.32) |
| 8. Reiputa (2.14) |
| 9. Disappointed (2.55) |
| 10. They Came To Die (2.19) |
| 11. Pai Theme (3.49) |
| 12. Paikeas Whale (4.01) |
| 13. Empty Water (1.40) |
| 14. Waka In The Sky (1.56) |
| 15. Go Forward (5.52) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's not until "Biking Home" that you might even recognise Gerrard's voice in this quietly joyful mood piece. She only gives herself full, if understated, voice on the symphonic closing track "Go Forward" which echoes Gladiator's "Now We Are Free", but with Maori chanting. Though there is some compelling music on Whale Rider, much of it sounds bereft without the accompanying images. --John Diliberto, Amazon.com
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Most songs rely on ambience with swirling keyboards, tribal drums and some lovely acoustic guitar work. Very few tracks indeed have Lisa's voice in it at all and its actually the guest vocals who steal the show with a powerful performance from a maori choir.
The ambience never gets dull (and for those who enjoy ambience I suggest the Myst game soundtracks) and the ethereal tones are heavenly and could cradle you to sleep. The rest is a fabulous fusion of oceania instrumentation that you should enjoy.
To be honest, since this is not the kind of music I normally listen, I was a bit dissapointed when first listening the cd through. But the second time I fell in love with it! It's so deep and almost spiritual. When I concentrated on it, it took me to beautiful sceneries and an overwhelming atmosphere! I highly recommend. I didn't know that something this amazing even existed!
Shot through with a wonderful homogenity it moves through some delicious native Maori chanting to haunting melodies fully evocative of an ancient relationship with the sea and the whales. Those who have seen the film, which I also recommend highly, will know the vital importance of Gerrard's music in its context, and might well be surprised by how well it transfers to a simpler auditory experience.
Lisa Gerrard has referred to the "Whale Rider" project as "one of the most intimate of my artistic life...because it reminded me intrinsically that we live in a world full of fragile complexity." Fragile, complex and intimate - all words which encapsulate the experience of the "Whale Rider" soundtrack and make it well worth purchasing, as a fan of the film or a fan of Lisa Gerrard.
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