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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Ola Gjeilo - Northern Lights

                                                       Ola Gjeilo - Northen Lights SACD

If you are a fan of choral harmonies and deeply emotional absolutely breathtaking sounds than this recording is a must have!!!
"Northern lights" celebrates life and shines with a heavingly charm and will touch your soul in a way only a few can do. After buying and listening to this disc I reached out to the composer Ola Gjeilo directly to simply thank him for this gift. I was simply mesorized by the tranquil harmonic beauty of this little unassuming album....it really caught me off guard.

I had heard the song "The Ground" and after doing some research discovered it was written by Ola Gjeilo and I ordered this SACD immediately. I can not stop playing this album......it is just that good!
Gjeilo blends symphonic soundscapes reminiscent of the finest movie soundtracks with deeply moving harmonic and spiritual choral parts. Ola contributes piano all the way thru and at times it almost feels like "Mike Oldfield meets Gabriel Faure!".

The end result is a peaceful, yet deeply moving spiritual album that will simply take you past the edge of the universe and enable you to see the Northern Lights like never before.

The sound is on par with many of the better Chandos SACD's and clearly sound and feeling was the total goal of this album for Ola! ..............goal achieved.

If i had to take one album with me to the stars it just might this album

This is an achievement album and a sonic beauty....

Fans of movie soundtracks , classical choral work and symphonia will adore this album!

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