Face the MUSIC!!!

  It's no secret that I absolutely love Brendan Perry's work.  In fact, while Lisa Gerrard usually gets most of the attention with the later part of Dead Can Dance's work, I personally always marveled at Perry's contributions and they tend to be my favorite.  "Eye of the Hunter", what I believe is his first "real" solo album, is in short a complete masterpiece for anyone who enjoys very mellow mood music. The story of this album for me is that a very good friend of a friend purchased this album for another friend of mine at the time, or so I believe that's how it came about.  This particular friend was much more into dance and uppity music, and one day at lunch he popped this into his vehicle's CD player.  At the time, I really wasn't a fan of DCD except for the live video of which I had watched a couple of times.  I recall that when he put this album on, it was like time stopped, meaning the music was so incredibly slow and mellow that i...

For anyone who knows me musically, it's common knowledge that I frequently call Talk Talk's sublime 1988 release "Spirit of Eden" as one of the greatest musical masterpieces ever made for moody, ambient music.  The crazy part is how the band Talk Talk, who started out sounding more like early Duran Duran and was labeled as "synth pop", somehow got to this sound and album, and all within only 4 albums spanning about 6 years.  They are now widely regarded as originating the musical movement later known as "post rock", a genre which really didn't take off for another decade by bands such as Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor, and so on. Oddly, I actually purchased "Spirit of Eden" on a whim at Zia Records back in late '88 for a whopping $2.99, used on vinyl, with having not owned nor heard any other Talk Talk albums nor really being a fan.  I remember putting in on one day and really liking it, although it completely blew my mind ...