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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