Gandalf - Invisible Power: A Symphonic Prayer
mp3 @ 320 Kbps | 51:12 min. | 1989 | 112 MB

Review Written by Gambetis on quietmelodies

"Invisible Power" is a nice and meditative album with lush instrumental interludes and soft acoustic and electric guitar passages.
The album is a five-movement 'symphonic prayer' in a vein closer to Kitaro's eastern-mystical style than to kosmische musik.
"Seed Of Seeds", the opening movement, mixes seamlessly fairy-tale romanticism, Terry Riley's minimalism, Mike Oldfield's folkish collages Vangelis-like crescendos.
The five-part suite "River Of Permanent Changes" is a mixed blessing, in that it continues that hybrid effort but stressing one element at a time. The sweet melody of "Part II", and the piano and guitar interplay inside gentle electronic nebulae, is a success, and the loud guitar theme of "Part IV" coupled with a medieval music-box (a combination reminiscent again of Mike Oldfield) and a Michael Nyman's string scores provides for plenty of contrast, but these vignettes are often emotionally sterile.
The eight-minute "Light Of The Eternal Spirit", the third movement, straddles the line between a romantic piano sonata and Kitaro's languid psalms.
The ten-minute "The Final Day", the fourth movement, sounds like an enthralling blend of emphatic cerimonial music, lugubrious church music and Wagner-ian apotheosis.
The closing movement "Invisible Power" indulges in Tangerine Dream-like sequencers that hardly suit the 'prayer'.
"Invisible Power" is interspersed with a high degree of happy relaxed and harmonic melodies. The music of Gandalf lies just so full of beautiful ideas and a refreshing positive attitude.

Tracklist:
01 Seed Of Seeds (7:31)
02 The River Of Permanent Changes Part I (3:57)
03 The River Of Permanent Changes Part II (3:32)
04 The River Of Permanent Changes Part III (2:16)
05 The River Of Permanent Changes Part IV (4:11)
06 The River Of Permanent Changes Part V (3:02)
07 Light Of The Eternal Spirit (8:41)
08 The Final Day (10:11)
09 Invisible Power Part I (0:44)
10 Invisible Power Part II (7:07)

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