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Yanni: Dare to Dream

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Label: Private Music
Released: 1992.03.10
Time:
 59:05
Category: Easy Listening
Producer(s): Yanni
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.yanni.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Once Upon a Time (Yanni) - 3:51
[2] A Love for Life (Yanni) - 5:07
[3] Nice to Meet You (Yanni) - 5:35
[4] So Long My Friend (Yanni) - 3:47
[5] You Only Live Once (Yanni) - 7:19
[6] To the One Who Knows (Yanni) - 5:37
[7] Face in the Photograph (Yanni) - 3:47
[8] Felitsa (Yanni) - 4:45
[9] Desire (Yanni) - 5:00
[10] Aria (M.McLaren/Yanni) - 3:58
[11] A Night to Remember (Yanni) - 5:47
[12] In the Mirror (Yanni) - 4:07

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Yanni - Keyboards, Engineer, Producer

Charlie Adams - Acoustic, Electronic Drums & Percussion
Charlie Bisharat - Acoustic Violin on [3,4]
Mona Lisa - Vocals on [10]

Chris Bellman - Mastering
Lynn Goldsmith - Photography
Jeff D. Klein - Management
Norman Moore - Design

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Recorded at Yanni's private studios, mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Los Angeles.



Yanni tacitly announced he was becoming a kinder, gentler, more thoughtful musician with the release of this 1992 studio recording. The triumphant surges and tympani-powered sonic eruptions that often distinguished his earlier works are replaced here by greater emphasis on billowy clouds of stardust. Yet even on its own subdued terms, Dare to Dream is largely an attractive package designed for Yanni's legions of newer fans who discovered him on Oprah or PBS. If you remember to program your CD-player to skip "Aria," a shrill, operatic oddity, you'll discover the album's strengths lie in its more energetic compositions - particularly "Desire" and "You Only Live Once." On the quiet side, the affecting "To the One Who Knows" is a soul-searching gem that bears repeated listening.

Terry Wood - Amazon.com



Dare to Dream is Yanni's first new material in three years and finds the new age composer fitting his unflinchingly romantic arrangements into tighter song structures. The surging synth backgrounds, insistent piano lines, and general grandiosity that mark Yanni's sound are still intact. But tracks like "Love for Life" or "Nice to Meet You" harness that famously epic energy in smaller stables. This tactic works especially well on the latter track, which is led by the wail of an electric fiddle. Elsewhere, Yanni plucks the heartstrings with "In the Mirror" and "So Long My Friend (Yanni) - two weepy ballads that cascade like sheets of rain on a lonely city street. The seven-minute "You Only Live Once" becomes the only really epic piece on Dare to Dream, and it's pleasant enough. However, it illustrates the main drawback to Dream, which is Yanni's reliance on the shifting sands of synthesizers to do his bidding. As his rousing 1990 live collaboration with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra proved, live instruments only accentuate the humanity of Yanni's music instead of deadening it like his fleets of keyboards have a tendency to do. This is a minor issue, though. Since artificial instrumentation has always been part of Yanni's highly successful sound, fans of the composer likely won't be put off by their prominence here.

Johnny Loftus - All Music Guide



Dare to Dream is the eighth studio album by Keyboardist Yanni, released on the Private Music label in 1992 (see 1992 in music). The album peaked at #2 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart and at #32 on the "Billboard 200" chart in the same year. It went gold within two months of its release and was nominated for a Grammy. The album was followed by the sell-out, 65-city Dare to Dream concert tour which challenged audiences "not to be afraid to dream". "Dare to Dream", says Yanni, "comes from a realization that not only people don't go after their dreams, they are often afraid to dream at all. If we don't dare to dream, we can't shape our future".

In a review by Johnny Loftus, "Dare to Dream is Yanni's first new material in three years and finds the new age composer fitting his unflinchingly romantic arrangements into tighter song structures. The surging synth backgrounds, insistent piano lines and general grandiosity that mark Yanni's sound are still intact. But tracks like "A Love for Life" or "Nice to Meet You" harness that famously epic energy in smaller stables. This tactic works especially well on the latter track, which is led by the wail of an electric fiddle. Elsewhere, Yanni plucks the heartstrings with "In the Mirror" and "So Long My Friend" – two weepy ballads that cascade like sheets of rain on a lonely city street. The seven-minute "You Only Live Once" becomes the only really epic piece on Dare to Dream, and it's pleasant enough. However, it illustrates the main drawback to Dream, which is Yanni's reliance on the shifting sands of synthesizers to do his bidding. As his rousing 1990 Live collaboration with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra proved, live instruments only accentuate the humanity of Yanni's music instead of deadening it like his fleets of keyboards have a tendency to do. This is a minor issue, though. Since artificial instrumentation has always been part of Yanni's highly successful sound, fans of the composer likely won't be put off by their prominence here."

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