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Pure Moods, Vol. III

Pure Moods, Vol. III
Various Artists, Blue Man Group, Brian Eno & Geoffrey Oryema, David Lanz, Enigma, Enya, Jessie Cook, Kitaro, Moby, Eight Others

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Track Listing

  1. Only If - Enya
  2. Porcelain - Moby
  3. Life in Mono - Mono
  4. Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
  5. Christphori's Dream - David Lanz
  6. Land of Anaka - Brian Eno and Geoffrey Oryema
  7. Dela Dela - Sacred Spirit
  8. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto
  9. Velocity of Love - Suzanne Ciani
  10. Ever So Loney - Sheila Chandra
  11. Virtue - Jessie Cook
  12. Theme from Silk Road - Kitaro
  13. Synaesthetic - Blue Man Group
  14. On Sacred Ground - Yanni
  15. Gravity of Love - Enigma
  16. Deliver Me - Sarah Brightman

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #4398 in Music
  • Released on: 2001-02-06
  • Number of discs: 1

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
What's most surprising about the Pure Moods series is not that it is so popular, but that the music on it actually represents some of the best New Age and modern instrumental music, rather than scraping the barrel. For every piece of Enya pop froth--like her "Only If," which opens the album--there is a deep and impassioned exploration like Sheila Chandra's virtually a cappella "Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean." Yanni's bombastic "On Sacred Ground" is balanced by Moby's soulful trance groove, "Porcelain." Sometimes those juxtapositions don't work out well. The overwrought romanticism of pianist David Lanz's "Cristofori's Dream" can only suffer being sandwiched between the soul-searing vocals of Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers (Massive/DB Mix)" and the Geoffrey Oryema/Brian Eno hymn, "Land of Anaka." With more than a quarter of the album drawn from the 1980s, there are some influential early gems here for new listeners, including Kitaro's wistful "Silk Road" and Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence." --John Diliberto


Customer Reviews

Pure Moods, Vol. III2
I did not find that I enjoyed it as much as Pure Moods, Vol. I

Pure Moods Vol I, I think is still the best

Almost Perfect!!4
Anyone who's actually reading an online review of a Pure Moods album has to be, in my most humble of opinions, an established fan of the franchise, and I'm no exception: I LOVE Pure Moods. I have all 5 installments and Christmas Moods.

But on Pure Moods III, there is one song that simply does not belong: "Silk Road" by Kitaro. That has to be the most annoying, shrill, plodding sequence of sounds I've ever come across. I only listen to that track about 33% of the time. (I sporadically listen to it, just to see if I can hear it differently that time.) I would like to make a burn of this CD that does not contain that song.

Everything else rocks my socks.

Buy Pure Moods.

AWESOME!5
If you are looking for meditation or tranquility from daily stress I recommend not only this CD, but the entire collection. I have all the Pure Moods collection and keep buying more New Age music. I feel I've invested my money in good music. I listen to pretty much anything from soft music, Rock, Salsa, Calypso to Dance-Techno music, but when I don't feel like listening to loud music, I listen to these CD collection, specially on a Sunday to reconnect with relaxation to start another heavy woking week. Also, if you like gospel, I'm sure you'll love these even though is not quite gospel music. You just reconnect yourself spiritually in this material world.