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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