SITE RATING: 1/10
SITE
REVIEW:
I'm not against modern
re-imaginings of Messiah
- I think that certain efforts, if done with
taste, imagination, or
even humor, can be entertaining, and
occasionally revelatory. Messiah Remix,
on the other hand, sounds convoluted, muddy,
and disjointed - in other
words, a mess. Instead of exploding
Messiah and reforming the
skeleton of it into interesting ways, Remix
merely explodes the original, leaving a
smoking pile of strewn-about
bits and pieces which makes no coherent sense,
and all too often
dissolves into a sludge of ambient noise which
shows just how
unimaginative and bland these mixes are.
More damning, the
droning, hip-hop interpolations, and aimless,
wispy arrangements leave
an impression of discord and confusion which
is completely at odds with
Handel's baroque masterpiece - an anti-Messiah,
if you will; replacing the clean, orderly
perfection of Messiah
with a bleak, oppressive sound scape which
deadens feelings and leaves
the listener with a feeling of hopelessness.
The brief snippets
of Messiah
which are left,
shamble about and stutter, zombie-like, in
ineffectual glimpses which
made me want to run and listen to the original
- a backhanded
compliment which is the only praise I can
muster for this sad,
unfortunate effort.
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