Track Listing

1. Eternal Echoes
2. Returning Home
3. Crazy Dog
4. Slow Day
5. Fred & Cyd
6. Blessed Illusion
7. Lullabying
8. Winning
9. Get Over It
10. First Steps
11. Elegy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61035 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Eternal Echoes is John Barry's follow-up to The Beyondness of Things, an original solo album of independent material not connected to any film. From the spare, monochrome artwork it is clear this will be a reflective collection, and the composer describes the 11 pieces as comprising "an album of sounds, of places and of objects that have always existed and always will exist. They are without beginning or end. They are infinite in our past and future." Unfortunately this timelessness translates musically into solemn, dirge-like tracks which sound much like romantic John Barry film themes such as Out of Africa or Dances with Wolves but drained of any life or memorable melodic invention. As a film musician, Barry has been heading towards increasingly string dominated, introspective music for over a decade. As inspired by the poetry of his friend John O'Donahue, Eternal Echoes takes the direction to extremes. While "Fred and Cyd" does have a slowed-down Goldfinger brass swagger and "Blessed Illusion" evokes a wide-open American landscape, the remainder of the cuts serve best as meditative backgrounds which immediately slip from memory. The simultaneously released Enigma soundtrack holds much more of interest for long-term Barry fans. --Gary S Dalkin

Album Details
Another Feather in John Barry's Soundtrack Cap! the Master Produces Another Gem.