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IOM MAGAZINE REVIEW OF 'IN A DREAM' CD |
| robertfarmer (11/12/06 11:25:14) Tag: Press Reviews |
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International Online Magazine CD Review Robert Farmer – ‘In A Dream’ Label: Independent Producer: Robert Farmer Release Date: 2006 * * * * * 1. In A Dream. 2. Angel On The Rooftop. 3. Coming Back To Philadelphia. 4. Because Of You. 5. Movin' Along. 6. Distant Lights. 7. Little Big Man. 8. Return To The Valley. 9. Don't Tell Mama. 10. Farmacology. 11. Any Day Now 12. Dream Theme Robert Farmer - Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Harmonica, Handclaps, Guitar, Vocals. All compositions - Robert Farmer. © 2006 Robert Farmer Find the Zinduat: www.robertfarmer.com, and First Avenue of Sound We actually received a copy of Robert Farmer's album 'In A Dream' months and months ago and it's taken till now to get to that point in our CD Reviews rack for the album to surface and grace our pages. With an extensive catalogue of pivotal musical background behind him, Robert has managed to produce a debut album of stunning worth and equally stunning and unique quality and approach.. it's alternative intelligent heart and should be engaging pop/rock folks to have this album grace your turntable (or CD player) is an honour to any sound system and a doubly enormous honour for your ears! The album opens with the enigmatic and powerfully considered In a Dream - a rich assortment of skill, talent, and remarkable craftsmanship in music production and sound engineering. Vocals are spectacularly realized and the meandering effects and inserts are so well integrated that you'd think this album had been produced at one of the country's leading studios! The song itself borders introspection with that yearning for something once had and Robert's lyrics and vocals are immensely engaging. Angel On The Rooftop meanwhile is a remarkable achievement musically. Here we have Robert's delivery of a mood devouring collage of spectacularly conceived instrumentation from the dynamic midi inserts to the sparkling percussion work. All of this is blanketed by a very persuading attention grabber of a vocal that works so well it's hard to resist playing the track over and over again! Coming Back To Philadelphia appears to be targeted at someone who's last visit made them a real hero in Robert's eyes as well as those connected to the rest of the community. This is a phenomenally brilliant track that I should have heard been given overplay at most FM stations I've plugged into across the planet. For it's complete ingenuity in delivery, production, and musicianship, the track is quite probably one of the best I have ever heard from an independent artist. Watch out for the mesmerizing guitar work and vocals working hand in hand with one another! Brilliant! Because Of You just happens to be a little more David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, and Eric Clapton infused than the previous tracks but it has it's own indelible Robert stamp all over it. What an immensely gifted artist Mr. Farmer really is! With some very clever vocal treatments, the lyrics are strengthened to a point where they become engrained into your consciousness when other songs in this genre remain deeply sub-conscious! Movin' Along is a superb award winning soundtrack example of pop/rock if ever there was one! Robert's obvious past music transfusions have surely replenished his entire sense of well being and his deeply committed determination into what makes sound truly effective and entertaining! What a brilliantly electrifyingly spirited example of excellence this is! Distant Lights arrives at that point where shimmering disbelief in the artist's talent and artistic ingenuity becomes a model of acceptance. This is a very beautiful song with equally beautiful vocals and lyrics meandering all over the place to places hitherto unexplored for the genre. I would love to see Robert Farmer live in concert and I'd love to meet him after the show just to shake his hand and say 'Errrr thanks Bob!!!' Little Big Man meanwhile elevates your senses beyond the opening bass phrases across the realms of electronica and into the very heart of what this song is all about. Brilliantly unique approaches to production with a brilliantly unique arrangement are what make this song work so well. The impression your left with after the last notes have been delivered is simply... OH MY GOD... WHAT's THIS GUY GONNA GIVE US NEXT??? Return To The Valley arrives on the runway complete with electrifyingly explicit colourful guitar work in a soundtrack title that's worthy of eternal praise and appreciation. This plane's carrying the same luggage as Roberts’s previously explored tracks... the heightened and intricately woven production and arrangements and the hall mark of true craftsmanship in musical expertise! Don't Tell Mama confirms my utter dismay at not being able to see the televised highlights of Robert Farmer's world tour either on cable or DVD! Does the man have no limits? Apparently not... this is music for the masses that the masses are not necessarily aware of! Brilliant bass work fused with some smart and well thought out percussion are overlapped by that forceful male vocal that Robert has nurtured to its entirety! A real gem of a song and rather laughingly original in just about every way a finger picked guitar and vocal song can be! Farmacology is something that should be widely available on every performing arts college and university curriculum. Nice sweeps and pads with meandering bass and percussion make the track a positive enhancement to any originally inventive electronica/soundtrack genre. The things those students could learn from Mr. Farmer are likely to be 'uncalculatable!' Any Day Now brings back the magical elements that make this canvas of a CD so spellbinding. Rich vocals and exotically realized piano work are evenly balanced over the depth and meaning in the lyrics. Robert Farmer is dead good at this... emphasizing lyrics in the way that he does with sparkling and skilled musical phrases and a vocal most guys would love to have between their lips! Sadly, we face the final track on the album - Dream Theme with it's concentrated efforts nestled comfortably into the realm of where some of the most innovative artist/composers tend to spend most of their waking (and sleeping) hours. It's a fascinating track with its fresh approaches to excellence in high-end music production and engineering and with musical phrases and sweepings that are quite possibly unintentionally designed to make your heart and soul plead for more! A superb example of what's possible... brought to the world by someone who knows exactly where that very fine line is drawn! In a Dream by Mr. Robert Farmer is an absolute must for any sensible person's CD collection, for any responsible person's iPod, and for any aspiring musician and composer who'd like some hints at what's possible at the upper end of the excellence spectrum. Buy this album if you have more than a few brain cells... it'll be the best thing you did in a very long time because it's quite possibly one of the best albums your likely to hear outside of a major label's A&R department! Colin Lynch - October 29, 2006 www.firstavenueofsound.com www.rcatcommunications.com © 2006 R Cat Communications Ltd – All Rights Reserved |
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