Three Variations On The Canon
In D Major By Johann Pachelbel
2(i)
Fullness Of Wind
9:57
2(ii)
French Catalogues
5:18
2(iii)
Brutal Ardour
8:17
Here the remasterd version. The first, title track, is over 30 minutes of sonic bliss that never ever gets boring and only gets better with repeated listenings. Fantastic discreet music to play while you're involved in creative activities. The remainder of the CD, at first, doesn't seem to match the mood...but after that initial observation the BEAUTY shines through...so the whole CD is great. "Discreet Music" consists, per Eno's description in the liner notes, of "two simple and mutually compatible melodic lines of different duration stored on a digital recall system" that are occasionally altered "by means of a graphic equalizer". Put simply, two loops play, of differing lengths, for the period of about 30 minutes, rising and falling, swelling and coming and going, intertwining with each other. What is most amazing is how these two simple statements can be so unbelievably powerful, emotionally overwhelming, and purely engaging. It is really one of the finest pieces in all of Eno's catalog. The Pachelbel canon variations are somewhat less interesting, though still quite enjoyable Again from the liner notes, "each variation takes a small section of the score (two to four bars) as its starting point, and permutates the players' parts such that they overlay each other in ways not suggested by the original score". The result is breathtaking, and adds a familiar resonance to it.
