Remember those far off days when the web first got big enough that you could find out things you didn't know? Did jonanderson.com exist in 1998? I can't be sure, but it was via a site similar to it that I discovered Jon had been releasing albums under the commercial radar. There were the dance remixes, the faux celtic roots tunes, and this, the ambient new age release.
I love ambient music, and had higest hopes of this one. But, as one who's borne with Jon through all sorts of indulgences, Angels Embrace is, at best, lame. It's as though he's taken the less-is-more mantra a little too literally: on many of the pieces, there's just nothing there. We know Jon knows better. I'm not a fan of Olias but even the instrumental bits of that had more to them than Angels Embrace. Meanwhile, as music that sustains a mood while remaining sparse and minimal, it's not a patch on Vangelis's Opera Sauvage, which Jon played on.
(By the way, what I said about stumbling on The Deseo Remixes in Dublin turns out to be bollocks: I've found the email that shows I ordered it online at the same time as Angels Embrace.)
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