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| 1. Incantation |
| 2. Beauty In The Beast |
| 3. Poem For Bali |
| 4. Just Imaginings |
| 5. That's Just It |
| 6. Yusae-Aisae |
| 7. C'est Afrique |
| 8. Woman's Song |
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From the roar of Tibetan horns and the clangour of metal percussion that opens Beauty in the Beast, Wendy Carlos signalled a new direction in 1986. Beauty in the Beast is Carlos's magnum opus, an album that should have established the synthesiser's role in the new global music landscape. More than that, it should have established Carlos as a composer and not just a Switched-On Bach jukebox. But not too many people were listening. Re-released now after 14 years, Beauty in the Beast has lost none of its power. Carlos is profound and poignant, dissonant and disarming on Beauty as she fuses a global orchestra from her synthesisers. "Poem for Bali" is the centrepiece of the album, an episodic, 17-minute excursion as Carlos orchestrates the sounds and rhythms of a digital gamelan orchestra. In addition to replicating the metallophones, gongs and flutes of the traditional gamelan, she creates her own hybrid sound designs, giving this work a surreal and sometimes harrowing tone, like a dream bent through funhouse mirrors. But then there are pieces like "A Woman's Song", based on a Balkan melody. The title track merges nightmare landscapes and a crazed carnival calliope with a haunting theme that sounds like a lament for the end of the world. Beauty in the Beast is an essential recording of both modern composition and synthesis and Carlos should plug into this circuit again. --John Diliberto
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