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Bill Douglas, Eternity's Sunrise

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1735989

Disk length: 1h 4m 6s (14 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2001

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Heaven In a Wild Flower 4:32
2. The Hills of Glencar 3:53
3. Into the Twilight 3:38
4. Flow Gently, Sweet Afton 4:17
5. Farther Than The Stars 6:36
6. My Love is Like A Red Red Rose 4:16
7. Return To Inishmore 3:19
8. I Shall Not Live In Vain 4:21
9. Karuna 5:31
10. Earth Prayer 4:19
11. Elegy 6:05
12. Tara 4:03
13. O Earth O Earth Return 4:16
14. Deep Peace (Choral Version) 4:52

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Review

Bill Douglas has spent much of his career playing with Richard Stolzman, especially during the crossover years that spawned albums such as Begin Sweet World. Douglas composed much of that material, and he brings the same crossover idea to his solo recordings. Eternity's Sunrise, a collection of music from his seven recordings on the Hearts of Space label, showcases a quasiclassical sound that borrows from world music and New Age influences with overtones of spirituality and sentimentality--especially sentimentality. Primarily a bassoonist, Douglas also plays extensive keyboards on his solo albums, accompanied by the Ars Nova singers and a smattering of classical instrumentalists. Douglas's choral compositions are featured heavily on Eternity's Sunrise in settings of poems by William Blake and Robert Burns. These are lugubrious affairs that might be solemn if their close harmonies weren't so smothering. Douglas is shown to better effect on tracks like "Farther than the Stars," with its Celtic affectations, and "Karuna," which laces keyboard orchestrations around an Indian mode. Douglas has a pleasant melodiousness that occasionally prevails over maudlin arrangements. --John Diliberto

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