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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Soundtrack to a Slightly Scary Dream, 17 Aug 2007
As ever Lisa Gerrard's work is deeply emotive, haunting and very evocative. This album would sit neatly between Mirror Pool and Duality. I thought it considerably pared down from Immortal Memory and reminded me very much of Within the Realm of a Dying Sun by her former group Dead Can Dance.
Though I enjoyed it, I did find it a little scary and had to have someone hold my hand when I listened to it. Highly recommended.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
New Tracks or Lost Soundtrack Pieces?, 16 Jan 2007
I was prehaps naively excited when I heard The Silver Tree was coming. Maybe I just got too overexcited? After the first listen I was completely underwhealmed. Now a month on from that and repeated listens later its gone up in my estimations but it just seems lazy in places.
The single "Come Tenderness" sums it all up. Lisa's voice is as haunting as it is beautiful - there is no denying that. The voice however is being relied a bit too much upon to see the song through. The chords in the background meandor through and never really get into a real melody unlike the previous albums. It's all leant towards ambience which works fine had Whale Rider not already been produced and left such a profound mark on that segment of Lisa's work. "Inexile", "The Sea Whisperer", "Wandering Star" & "Valley Of The Moon" all follow the same work of thought.
Then you have several pure ambient clashing and banging tracks which remind me of Silent Hill computer game soundtracks but they do not blend well with the rest of the album. Point at hand is the ten minute "Towards The Tower" which could have been an absolutely stunning piece of music had it been not written for background music and actually written for pure musical listening.
That leaves you with "Devotion" which is Lisa at her magical best, "Serenity" which is a clever little tune, "Abwoon" which is a vocal collage of sounds but is a bit repeditive and "Space Weaver" which is in the same vein as "The Human Game" and is a fantastic track.
It makes me think (along with the song titles) that these were left over pieces from the films she has scored and after popping a few new tracks on, Lisa has given us a compilaition of leftovers as opposed to an album.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The silver screen?, 25 Aug 2007
Once again a soundtrack from Lisa - oh no, wait, this is supposed to be a real solo album. Hmm, could've fooled me.
I've been a Dead Can Dance-fan since they started, and when they split up and Lisa released The Mirror Pool I thought: wow, that's where the talent was all along, especially after hearing Brendan's bleak debut. But alas, you'll find no La Bas or Sanvean here. It's the same ethnic monotony as we've sadly grown accustomed to. The vibrant and melodious nature of DCD and her debut is nowhere to be found here, instead what you get is a loooong droooone of sounds that seem to form a sort of entities you could call songs, sprinkled at random with Lisa's voice.
There are two exceptions: Space Weaver, a Massive Attack-like track where Lisa sings a normal text with a normal voice, and Devotion, where she almost captures the beauty so plentifully found on The Mirror Pool.
However, none of these are particularly strong, and two tracks don't make a right.
Needless to say, this album is a disappointment to me, and I wish she would take a break from her incessant release of soundtracks, because that kind of music production seems to have infiltrated her songwriting, an art we find all too little of on The Silver Tree.
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