EDWARD ARTEMIEV
EDWARD ARTEMIEV
"THREE ODES"
Electroshock Records
In "Three Odes" we can listen to the master lines of the style of the Russian composer Edward Artemiev, one of the first musicians in the world to use a sinthesizer to approach new ways of understanding music, and a world pioneer of the New Musics. Throughout his long career, Artemiev has gone beyond all the frontiers among genres. He had the daring initiative to do this when nobody dared do it. In this CD we have good samples of his wide musical vision. Instrumental classicism, Symphonic Rock, Space Music, SynthPop, World Music, electronic experimentation, and other paths, appear as those travelled by the artist throughout the pieces here included. In all the cases his talent is most remarkable, though his condition as a visionary is made more obvious in the least conventional passages. For instance, his approach to Space Music reflects a strength that only a few stars of this genre have succeeded in transmitting. Melodies that impress from the first moment, unearthly ambiences whose absolute clarity provides them with an overwhelming realism, powerful rhythms capable of transmitting all the magnificience of an epic tale, and a perfect coherence among all the elements.
JORGE MUNNSHE
