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The Wimshurst's Machine : Secret Gardens
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An intelligent mix of ambient sounds and acoustic instruments, influenced by jazz and even classical music.
Genre: Electronic: Ambient
Release Date: 2009
Secret Gardens
The Wimshurst's Machine
Record Label: The Wimshurst's Machine
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Cimmerian Rhapsody 4:35 + MP3 $0.99
2. Somewhere in Time (with you) 4:20 + MP3 $0.99
3. Pegasus (feat. Corrado Rossi) 4:51 + MP3 $0.99
4. Pain in Pleasure (feat. Sally Cooper) 4:58 + MP3 $0.99
5. Missing You (album version) 3:55 + MP3 $0.99
6. Low Tide (feat. Corrado Rossi) 4:43 + MP3 $0.99
7. Moonshadows pt.1 - Renaissance 4:47 + MP3 $0.99
8. Moonshadows pt.2 - Hypnosis 2:15 + MP3 $0.99
9. Moonshadows pt.3 - Meet 5:34 + MP3 $0.99
10. Moonshadows pt.4 - Element 5:30 + MP3 $0.99
11. Moonshadows pt.5 - Hangoon 4:41 + MP3 $0.99
12. Beneath the Surface (with W.O'Connell and H.Tarnecky) 4:25 + MP3 $0.99
13. Gilgamesh and the Tree of Huluppu 6:03 + MP3 $0.99
14. Secret Garden pt.1 - Prelude (fantasia per Flauto) 0:45 + MP3 $0.99
15. Secret Garden pt.2 - Boris the Barbarian (main theme) 3:12 + MP3 $0.99
16. Secret Garden pt.3 - A Sicilo 2:30 + MP3 $0.99
17. Secret Garden pt.4 - Tristan and Isolde 2:33 + MP3 $0.99
18. Secret Garden pt.5 - Suite 4 Bouree 1 for trumpet 2:56 + MP3 $0.99
19. Secret Garden pt.6 - Zadok the Priest 2:57 + MP3 $0.99
20. Secret Garden pt.7 - Grand Finale 0:30 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

Secret Gardens is, as always, an ambitious project made of different influences. The Wimshurst's Machine tries always to make more than just "a good track", always works in the album as an artistic opera in itself and here we are: Secret Gardens melts the sexy, tasty chill out mood typical of the band with two major suites of tracks who are like two symphonie" made of different sounds: "Moonshadows" is an ambient suite in 5 parts, where the story is told in a more "Brian Eno style" than the opening tracks. If also in previous albums the classical influences where appearing at times, here the last 7 tracks of the album are, as a matter of fact, classical or heavily influenced by the classical music style. "Secret Garden" is a suite who melts all the works the band made with a classical taste.
Most of those tracks are excerpt from movies or documentaries where they were used as soundtrack (that TWM scored of course).

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REVIEWS

Absolutely amazing!
author: Corrado Rossi
                            
Another great, beautiful musical project from this band! All tracks flow so nicely and the two special Suites are the icing on the cake! Impressive, original and so well-arranged performances with beautiful solos all played with great taste and class. I immediately liked this Album and I'm sure you too will love it! Most reccomended!!
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120 minutes of delightfully seductive music
author: Tony Lawson
                            
"Secret Garden" is the latest in a growing line of ambitious projects by The Wimshurst's Machine and brings the ensemble's total number of original studio album releases to 4 in the six year period since the founding of the group. In this new release the novelty factors are a number of prestigious collaborations with such artists as Corrado Rossi, Sally Cooper, William O'Connell, Harry Tarnecky, and the presence of two major "symphonic" suites: "Moonshadows" and "Secret Garden". "Moonshadows" is a five-track ambient suite in a style declaredly influenced by the great Brian Eno, while "Secret Garden" is a seven-track suite with overt classical overtones. These two suites make up a considerable porportion of the album's total runtime and include many excerpts from original TWM film and documentary soundtracks, an area in which the band has always been very active. "Secret Garden" comprises 20 tracks and 120 minutes of delightfully seductive music, dominated by ambient atmospheres but with noteworthy elements of classical, world, rock and jazz.
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amazing!
author: Corrado Rossi
                            
Cheers to this amazing new Album from TWM!! I wish you all the success you deserve!
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Low Tide, ¡LO MÁXIMO!
author: Susana Sientes
                            
Una buena copa de vino, de preferencia tinto chileno, un buen Merlot... y acompañarlo con Low Tide... ¡LO MÁXIMO!
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