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| Aguas da Amazonia | 
 enlarge | Artists: Uakti & Phillip Glass, Philip Glass
Label: Philips
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (33 reviews)
Sales Rank: 87248
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.6 x 0.5
MPN: 464064
UPC: 028946406427
EAN: 0028946406427
ASIN: B00000JQJT
Release Date: August 3, 1999
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good combo September 29, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Seemed to be a good collaboration Uakti and Glass. The instrumentation of Uakti with the minimalism of Glass sounded great together, kind of primordial. Worth buying, I recommend it for anyone with a sense of adventure...
A Meandering Journey August 7, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
A meandering journey such as how a river flows. This album is really good for relaxation and quiet sonic exploration. It is very peaceful. Probably can cool your nerves. I wish more of it was like track 2, but it is satisfactory anyway.
 The Amazon. Source found. May 21, 2005
If you have found your way here looking for exotic hynotica, then here is your pleasure. If Philip Glass intrigues you -- then you've stumbled across his hidden treasure.
 Stagnant water March 16, 2005
4 out of 25 found this review helpful
I thought this would be a series of compositions that conjured up images of the Amazon. Instead, it's a series of trite, redundant, and very uninspiring notes that might was well be about a water well. Very disappointing CD. And, I like Glass and defend his work to friends. Not this time!
Mesmerizing November 15, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was a fan of both Philip Glass and Uakti before the release of this album, so I was absolutely thrilled to see this collaboration. And the CD surpassed all expectations.
Glass' composition is brilliant. Other reviewers here have pooh-poohed the composition as simply plagiarized from his previous works. Who cares? It works here - magically. And Uakti's instrumentation and performance have a wonderfully humanizing effect on Glass' music. The instrumentation is lush, like the rivers and rainforests themselves. And the addition of apparently improvised solos (improvisation in a Glass piece?!) gives the music a warm, organic, and even untamed feel to it.
This truly is one of my all-time favorite CD's. It's simply mesmerizing to sit and listen to it on a pair of headphones. On one level, it's wonderful to just soak in the lushness of the sound. On another, it's fascinating to decipher the puzzles and games Glass plays with the composition. Listen carefully and take note of the time signatures, for instance. Not only does he make liberal use of compound meter - 5 or 7 beats per measure, for example - note how often the time signature changes in the same piece. And yet it's done so flawlessly the casual listener wouldn't notice anything unusual at all, just that the music feels particularly "lively."
I've had this CD for a couple of years now. It's still one of my absolute favorites.
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