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Listener
Reviews:
Tim
Gerwing - Being to Being
(Please Email your
comment or review to: webmaster@channeleau.com)
"I
like this music, especially "dream."
It
must be daydreaming in China.
In
a comfortable room, not dark, but not so light.
My
spirit is calm.
Before
long, rhythmical sound comes in from somewhere... the sound is the
beat of my heart.
Gradually,
it becames clear and lively.
Still,
I'm staying calm.
The
calm and the rhythm mix.
Wake
up, with hope, wake up, with vigour.
Your
dream will be finished soon."
Yusuke
Goto
Sendai,
Japan
"After
I have heard your music, I am deeply affected emotionally, spiritually
and sentimentally, for your musical glamour lies in the extreme
attraction with a strong dynamic rhythmic pattern.
The
ups and downs in tune stimulate and excite the listener.
Hope you keep
on producing and interpreting the world through your deft hand at
music of real texture."
我听了你的音乐,
深受感动.
因为你音乐的魅力在于具有极强的吸引力,节奏感鲜明,
跌宕起伏,给人以强烈的刺激.希望你继续你的工作让音乐爱好者听到更多这样的富于质感的音乐.
廖运全,
"Lion" Liao
Xian
Yang, China
"Thanks
very much for dropping off a copy of your CD.
I
put it on here at the store (Tom Lee Music) the same day you dropped
it off.
I
love the artwork.
Very
nicely done.
Clean
and vibrant.
Tasteful.
I
like track 6 the most.
Overall,
the album reminds me of: Gone to Earth, Nerve Net and Phillip Glass.
Some
really nice textures and not as dark as so much of the electronic
instrumental music I hear lately.
I
appreciate that."
Chris
Bryant - Producer / Engineer
Vancouver,
B.C., Canada
"I
find it quite inspirational in some aspects and as I listen to it more
frequently it is almost a CD to use for a meditational subject,and
sometimes it is quite animated and forceful.I found it is delightful,
everybody should listen to what you are trying to portray.
Congratulations
and Love."
Alma
Bennett
Australia
"Tim
Gerwing's CD Being to Being is a journey through the spirit.
The
opening song 'stars' set the tone for meditative thought: mysterious,
yet lyrical.
The
entire CD has an ethereal quality to it; poetic and haunting melodies
punctuated by heartbeat rhythms.
The
bowl of light series is dreamy, as if hearing music while in the womb.
Where
waves of peace wash over the soul.
Floating
in the timelessness.
Until
the next piece, "a.e.m." wakens the listener with energizing
rhythms.
Tim
seems to speak through his music.
Listening,
I can almost hear his soul connecting to mine.
He
continues to impress me with his talent, and I can't wait to hear the
next CD."
Nicole
Strandlund
Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
"Very
listenable.
I
had to hear it right to the end.
I
hope you continue with more like this."
Ge
Chong De
Xian
Yang, China
"I
came home last Sunday from vacation and found your CD in the mail.
I
played it once that day and I was really, really impressed!
Marvelous.
I
loved it and I took it at work today to have more listens through the
headphone.
Still
I believe a masterpiece.
The
spoken words (Bennett!) and the music does make it a wonderful album.
Congratulations."
Gerrit
Hillebrand
www.trophies.org
"We
are living in what we call a post-modern industrial era.
in
which, we become part of such a complex mechanism that undermines our
humanity by alienating us from our nature, creating distrust,
suspicion and fear of other people.
As
our allegiance to our values and relationships undergo a
transformation, we remain oblivious to this fact.
In
this respect, the most challenging part of living for substance is
that of detaching ourselves from all of the trashy surroundings, which
are created by this mechanism, and redefining our values with the main
characteristics of the nature of human being.
I
found Being to Being to be a journey through our inner feelings and an
exploration of our existence as an entity, in the sense of a true
nature.
The
speech in different languages featured in the songs give
us a sense of mythical substance and creates a mystical aura
throughout the CD.
I
really appreciate the way Tim expresses himself in that sense, letting
us having the opportunity to rethink our situation in a society, as to
whether or not we live up to our true values."
Davut
Sanli
Turkey
/ Canada
"Being
to Being.
Curiouser
and curiouser.
Tim
Gerwing's latest CD has a dream-like quality that draws the listener
into repeated explorations, searching for the connecting thread of
understanding.
An
interior labyrinth.
The
opening track "stars" holds the senses... what are these
languages, why do they sound so familiar and yet so foreign?
There
is a belief that the subconscious mind understands all languages, and
if that is so, there is something in these words, in how they are
spoken, that calls the listener into the journey.
Reassuring,
Welcoming.
Don't
be afraid.
The
liner notes are few.
In
our consumer driven culture, the desire to explain every thought and
idea as ingredient or content works to disadvantage: oh, that's what
this means... and thoughts and ideas become disposable at whim.
Tim
Gerwing has consciously avoided this, and by doing so, invites the
listener to explore a new landscape, one with many influences, many
cultures, many histories, many dreams.
A
landscape that creates and structures a relationship of mind and
heart.
Woven
softly, gently.
The
tenth track, titled simply "a.e.m." is the one that returns
the listener to the "real" world.
Who
was J.G. Bennett, and what is his influence here?
How
do his words, recorded in 1974, connect to this music and this
musician?
The
questions beg research, and in doing so, the thread through the
labyrinth is discovered and the minotaur of uncertainty is laid to
rest.
There
is nothing to fear in this landscape.
You
can return again and know and understand the way.
And
then go farther.
The
last track, "signifier" leads you back to the first.
And
suddenly the realization of what you have been listening to, where you
have been, washes over you as gently as the music.
The
landscape is sacred ground, and we are all part of it.
Being
to being."
Valla
Eiriksson - Artist / Writer
Fort Macleod, Alberta & Victoria, B.C. Canada
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