Night Divides the Day - The Music of the Doors

这张名为《Night Divides the Day ：The Music of the Doors 》，整张专辑所引用的音乐都来自上世纪六十年代知名的The Doors合唱团的作品。这张专辑是乔治.温斯顿在音乐风格上的新尝试。在乔治.温斯顿在从事音乐的早期，The Doors合唱团的键盘手Ray Manzarek曾是他热爱的对象。作为一次全新的尝试，以一个摇滚团体的作品作为对象来说，钢琴独奏的重新演绎是有相当大的困难的。但是在这张专辑里，乔治.温斯顿却用流淌的琴声，重新演绎了The Doors合唱团的经典畅销曲。在专辑的全半部分，乔治.温斯顿的演奏显得较为平淡。在后半部分，却是精彩非常。浓烈的感情从琴键中涌现，乔治.温斯顿的精简繁复的演奏指法表现得淋漓尽致，钢琴的流淌感和原作的摇滚精神兼融并蓄。显得非常的和谐。一张与众不同的专辑，一份全新的创意，都在乔治.温斯顿的琴声中得到完美的表现。 by Jonathan Widran This seminal new age pianist has sold zillions of recordings with songs that reflect the quieter moments of the human spirit. It's clear from his phenomenal tribute to Vince Guaraldi and this irresistible tribute to the Doors that it takes the music of others to truly tap into a deeper place that gives variety, spunk, and magical energy to his playing. What makes this project so intense is the variety of moods he creates -- the imaginative way he modulates from dark and haunting, lower-register chord poundings and upper-register whimsy. The most dramatic example of this contrast comes in the first few minutes of "Riders on the Storm," which begins building with ominous horror movie-type tones, then adds a swirling wind of high-toned harmony on top of the dark melody. The opener, "Spanish Caravan," has a cavernous echo and a classical chamber music vibe, while the somber take on "The Crystal Ship" is more in the mainstream new age realm. "Love Street" is given a bright, meditative, upper-register quality, while "Love Me Two Times" and "Love Her Madly" are bouncy, stride-piano influenced, toe-tapping affairs. It's a tribute to Winston's honest love of the Doors' influence that he puts their trademark "Light My Fire" lower in the tracking, as if not to be overly commercial. He plays its ten minutes in split moods, from the funky mix of minor chords on the melody and major chords and high-register improvisation on the soloing section. Not to mess with success, but one hopes that Winston can always balance his own compositions with these types of labors of love.