Dave Valenin: Mountain Song
Track
Mountain Song
Artist
Dave Valentin (concert flute, pan pipes, bamboo flutes, Romanian pan flute, porcelain flute, Peruvian bamboo bass flute, assorted whistles and sequencer)
CD
Live at the Blue Note (GRP GRD-9568)
Musicians:
Dave Valentin (concert flute, pan pipes, bamboo flutes, Romanian pan flute, porcelain flute, Peruvian bamboo bass flute, assorted whistles and sequencer).
Composed by Dave Valentin
.Recorded: New York, May 31, 1988
Rating: 96/100 (learn more)
Armed with flutes of various nationalities and sundry construction, Dave Valentin adds sequencing and other electronic effects for a crowd-pleasing live display of what promises to be god-awful gimmickry. This promise goes spectacularly unfulfilled. Instead, Valentin's self-described "mind painting" is a vivid tropical landscape exploding with exotic colors and unclassifiable species, a too-brief travelogue of a solitary summer vacation in the rainforest. "Mountain Song" is 3½ minutes of aural artistry. Book your passage now.
Reviewer: Alan Kurtz
Tags: flute
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