Don Marsh Orchestra - The Glorious Sound Of The Panpipes Vols 3 & 4

Saturday 1st April 2000
Don Marsh Orchestra - The Glorious Sound Of The Panpipes Vols 3 & 4
Don Marsh Orchestra - The Glorious Sound Of The Panpipes Vols 3 & 4

STYLE: MOR / Soft Pop
RATING 1
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 1933-5129
LABEL: Spark SK7112
FORMAT: CD Album
RELEASE DATE: 1999-11-19
RRP: £4.99

Reviewed by Norman Smith

If your fond recollection of the panpipes at full gut-wrenching throttle is the Andes-inspired ‘Catcherpaya’, by Incantation, then stick to misty-eyed nostalgia, because this insipid offering is wretched. It compares less favourably to James Last interpreting Shostakovich. The choice meal that is true, passionate pan piping, is swapped for sell-by-date slop, in a mish mash of orchestral dressing. Taken out of context and placed in a foreign world, the pan pipe is exploited into performing bland hymns and choruses from across the middle of the road Christian globe, and watching this wily instrument being chased by the hounds of Christian commercialism leaves the reviewer in despair. How can this be allowed? No doubt I’ll hear this in my local Christian bookshop, no doubt I’ll question why they are endorsing such dross, no doubt they’ll say they’ve sold buckets of the CD to the pampered masses…no doubt I’ll walk out.

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Reader Comments

Posted by alejandro cruz in charlotte n. carolina usa @ 00:48 on Apr 18 2009

I love the music of mr marsh and I just wonder where can I get those cds?? can you please tell me ? thanx in advance



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