Search - Patrick O'Hearn :: Indigo

Chilling, Frightening, yet peaceful

Distant Voyageur | Io | 12/07/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is one of P.O.'s most brilliant magical landmark albums to date. This is a complete departure from the sunny daytime feel of El Dorado and Rivers Gonna Rise. This is a very dark and more midievel sounding recoed that shatters new grounds in his music and is one of his strongest albums to date. Devils Lake is a very scary sounding song with echoing pianos and a very ominous sound. At 3:56 some electronic percussion and some rhythm comes in giving a feel of traveling through space towards a glowing cluster of stars. Sacrifice is a haunting track with very dark tingling synths for about the first 3 and a half minutes. At about 2:40 drums come in and real add on to the song. The horns are beatiful. When I close my eyes when listening to this song I could imagine being out in the forest in the dead of night and then all of a sudden a green glowing, wide-eyed warrior ghost on a chariot coming out of the background being pulled by horses. Coba is beyond what words can say alone. It's a very frightening song with echoing drums and very nighttime synths. I love the intense bridge with strong synths from 2:18 to 3:00. It then ends with the ambient synths continuing. This is my favorite song on this album. Upon The Wings Of Night is what the title says. It's a most ambient song with trumpets but they really sound great.Sacret Heart is another beautiful but a tad bit brighter but still dark and spacey. The Beauty Within is another beatiful but with echoing pianos but at the last 30 seconds the pianos give away to pulsating synths and fade out. What an amazing song. Desire is absolutely magical. It starts out with dazzling synths. Then some drums come in. This is one of the best songs on this album. Ringmasters Dream is very unique. It starts off as an ambient track but then later it gradually morphs into a sort of orchestraesque song and then fades into carnival sounds at the ending. Espana is a truly magical closing track to this CD. It a very peaceful with a truly melancholy feel. A great closer to this CD. This is one of Mr. O'Hearns strongest albums to date. It's so much different from his earlier works and paved the way for his more midievel sounding material works afterwards. This is an essential recoeding for fans of Patrick O'Hearn and all New Age lovers."

Dark, Intense, and Dynamic

Jerry Fry | Freeman, MO USA | 10/08/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Anyone who has seen the movie "White Sands" and is familiar with "Indigo" will recognize some of the music from "Indigo" featured in this show. After the rather "soft" sound of "Rivers Gonna Rise" and the uniqueness of "Eldorado", "Indigo" is a journey through a dark, beautiful world. Patrick O'Hearns music can inspire visual images that go with some of the songs. "Sacred Heart" for instance, gives me a view of a long journey through a wide expanse of desert. The song "Devil's Lake" sounds like someplace I may not want to be on a dark, moonless night. The music on this CD has a mysterious sound, even compared to O'Hearns previous works. It would probably sound good at a Halloween party, that's not to take anything away from it, it's an excellent work and rates high on the scale of musical precision."