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Music Review -The Music of
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By Alex Carrier Okay. I admit it. I’m a “Teshie”. I like John Tesh’s music. I like his radio show. He’s talented. He seems like a nice guy. What’s not to like. So, when thinking about Earth Day, it seemed only reasonable that the music of choice would be the John Tesh CD One World. I love piano music and I am particularly fond of anyone who can find the instrument’s voice and make it sing. Tesh is able to coax, caress, cajole and capture the soul of the piano with his music. When his keyboard talents collaborate with other instruments and other musicians the result is thrilling. The voices Tesh elicits in One World are both multi-national and international. Each song has a theme, a country. Yet sounds from other places join and echo without taking the listener from the voice of origin. My favorite track is Emerald Bay. I’m of Irish heritage. It’s a given favor but a deserved one. The sound is pure Irish joy with a beat that invites dancing, raising a pint to your friend and your foe and leaves you with a strong desire to kiss the Blarney Stone. Who am I? is one of only two tracks not written wholly or partially by Tesh but his arrangement and the voices of Point of Grace create an angelically prayerful question. Put your player on repeat because you will want to enjoy this lyrical arrangement several times. For a change of pace, Valley of Dreams is a musical journey into rumbling rhythms and lush melodies like a canoe trip along mystic rivers into a tropical forest. Notes wash toward and away from you like ripples in the water while birds call from above and voices lure you deeper into the song. The music smells of rich, moist earth and feels damp with the mist of hidden waterfalls. The cover tune One World travels the world at the speed of song mapped out against an earth where boundaries are not drawn with lines but with melodies. The rush to the end returns you home where you disembark happily exhausted. www PJohn Tesh Home SiteDownload One World mp3 Buy One World at Amazon
©2006 Virginia Greene
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