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| Glass: Book of Longing | 
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| Creators: Daniel Keeling, Wendy Sutter, Andrew Sterman, Philip Glass, Michael Riesman, Eleonore Oppenheim, Kate St. John, Megan Marolf, Tara Hugo, Dominique Plaisant, Will Erat, Timothy Fain
Label: Orange Mountain Music
Category: Music
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 12488
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 43
UPC: 801837004328
EAN: 0801837004328
ASIN: B000XJM7XQ
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Prologue - I Can't Make the Hills | | • | I Came Down from the Mountain | | • | A Sip of Wine | | • | Want to Fly | | • | The Light Came Through the Window | | • | Puppet Time | | • | G-d Opened My Eyes | | • | You Go Your Way | | • | I Was Doing Something | | • | Not a Jew | | • | How Much I Love You | | • | Babylon | | • | I Enjoyed the Laughter |
Disc 2
| • | This Morning I Woke Up Again | | • | I Want to Love You Now | | • | Don't Have the Proof | | • | The Night of Santiago | | • | Mother Mother | | • | You Came to Me this Morning | | • | I Am Now Able | | • | Roshi's Very Tired | | • | Epilogue - Merely A Prayer |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 recycled glass June 23, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is yet another release by Glass that is an utter loss. Ever since Philip Glass got popular, his music has become banal and redundant. He keeps recycling the same sounds from other recordings, and does not do anything different from the past ten years. This recording just leaves the listener longing for the older Glass recordings that were what originally stood out from other stuff. Glass should just retire if all he can do is rehash and recycle previous material.
"Longing" is a let down May 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album is a disappointment on several levels. Being a fan of Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass my expectations may have been unreasonably high but this album strikes me as the worst of both Cohen and Glass. In my mind the weakness of Cohen is that his lyrics and poetry sometimes are just plain silly or pretentious while Glass tends to be formulaic and repetitious. On "Book of Longing" both of their weakness's are revealed very strongly.
Two other points that I did not like.
1. The singers sound disassociated with the music and lyrics. Sometimes I got the impression that this was a satirical record making fun of Cohen's songs rather than a serious reinterpretation of it.
2. The sound is mismatched to Cohen's song. Many of these songs are from "Ten New Songs" and I liked the way they sounded originally. However here they sound silly and unemotional.
I had hoped that "Longing" would be a musical interpretation by Philip Glass of Cohen's songs. I don't know how that would have sounded but I can't help but feel that anything would have sounded better than this effort.
Speechless is right! April 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I, too, am speechless. But not with awe. Being a long time Leonard Cohen fan and familiar with the poetry in his Book of Longing, I know Mr. Cohen is not Mr. Sunshine but these dirges have none of the intelligence (possibly even wisdom) his work contains. Everything about this album is terrible--even to the singing. I can't believe Leonard Cohen approved this work. AWFUL!!!
 A Captivating and Astounding Work February 10, 2008
I was expecting a lot of "glassagies", which are a re-use of the beautiful, yet sometimes too often repeated Glass passages (as in Dracula), but instead, I found unique, beautiful passages that while they could be recognized as a Philip Glass work, are new and pleasant. This work is captivating, and encapsulates the Glass Fan within a flowing, poetic work, which was captured with excellent recording clarity.
Nice if you like other Glass song albums February 8, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I saw Book of Longing live when Philip Glass was in the Netherlands for the Philip Glass festival, so I have special memories. Although this is played by a small ensemble and there is a lot of focus on the singers (duh), I really like the arrangements. I can listen to this over and over, although the album is perhaps a bit more monotonous than Philip's other song collections. Overall, a solid recommendation for Glass fans. If this is your first Glass song CD, I recommend Songs From Liquid Days over this one, which is more easily accessible.
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