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Yanni: Reflections of Passion

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Label: Private Music
Released: 1990.04.24
Time:
 64:26
Category: Easy Listening
Producer(s): Yanni, Peter Baumann
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.yanni.com
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Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] After the Sunrise (Yanni) - 4:38
[2] The Mermaid (Yanni) - 3:47
[3] Quiet Man (Yanni) - 4:33
[4] Nostalgia (Yanni) - 4:29
[5] Almost a Whisper (Yanni) - 3:08
[6] The Rain Must Fall (Yanni) - 4:37
[7] Acroyali (Yanni) - 5:05
[8] Farewell (Yanni) - 2:46
[9] Swept Away (Yanni) - 5:09
[10] True Nature (Yanni) - 4:35
[11] Secret Vows (Yanni) - 3:58
[12] Flight of Fantasy (Yanni) - 5:41
[13] A Word in Private (Yanni) - 3:45
[14] First Touch (Yanni) - 3:00
[15] Reflections of Passion (Yanni) - 4:35

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Yanni - Keyboards, Engineer, Mixing, Producer

Charlie Adams - Acoustic, Electronic Drums & Percussion

Peter Baumann - Producer
Jerry Steckling - Engineer
Chris Bellman - Mastering
Lynn Goldsmith - Photography

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The album that launched a thousand wind machines, Reflections of Passion established Yanni as the face of contemporary instrumental music. While 15 of its songs were culled from earlier releases, it was nevertheless the pianist and composer's popular breakthrough. It propelled him onto the world stage - literally, since he performed concerts in such locales as the Taj Mahal and China's Forbidden City. The exotic places fit Yanni's sweeping compositions, which incorporated crashing percussion and fleets of surging synthesizers to approximate what a wind storm would sound like if it was made of melody. "Nostalgia," "True Nature," and "Farewell" all worked on simplistic, yet extremely powerful piano lines that ebbed and flowed with new age grace. Sure, things could get a bit too soft-focus; tracks like "First Touch" were like delicate menageries teetering on a high shelf. But Yanni's command of straightforward structure and melody helped mainstream Reflections immensely.

Johnny Loftus - All Music Guide



Reflections of Passion is the first of what has became a near-torrent of "best-of" collections and other repackagings involving Yanni's early work. To avoid confusion when pondering the long list of Yanni "special projects," keep this in mind: Reflections of Passion is the pick of the litter, a handsome distillation of Yanni's most imaginative period, his Out of Silence and Chameleon Days era. This was before saxophones and sopranos and string sections began cluttering what had been one of contemporary instrumental music's most arresting and thoughtfully energized keyboard-powered sounds. Listen to the commanding-yet-nonaggressive bravura of "After the Sunrise" and "The Rain Must Fall" and recall the days when Yanni infused the "new age" genre with a refreshingly brawny sound, a distinctive style that surged as convincingly as it serenaded. The straightforward approach displayed on this superb sampler is a welcome reminder of the evocative sparks Yanni's compositions could strike before he entered his black-velvet and pink-bow phase. Even the disk's three bonus tracks, particularly "Flight of Fantasy," are aglow with the keyboardist's then-unmistakable style of saintly sexuality. Here's hoping future Yanni works don't merely reflect the passion, but recapture it as well.

Terry Wood - Amazon.com



Reflections of Passion is the sixth studio album by Keyboardist Yanni, released on the Private Music label in 1990 (see 1990 in music). The album peaked at #1 on "Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart, and at #29 on the "Billboard 200" chart during the same year. It was accompanied by the Reflections of Passion concert tour in the same year.

Although Reflections of Passion is categorized by the RIAA as a full album, all but three of the tracks on it had been released at least once prior; the title selection, for example, had itself previously been included on Chameleon Days. Since the album sampled the most successful tracks from Yanni's previous albums, it can be seen as a greatest hits compilation. In the album notes, the composer says, "This album represents my life's passions during the past ten years. It is an expression of love for the people in my life, as well as for some very special and inspiring places I can never forget."

In a review by Johnny Loftus of AllMusic, "The album that launched a thousand wind machines, Reflections of Passion established Yanni as the face of contemporary instrumental music. While 15 of its songs were culled from earlier releases, it was nevertheless the pianist and composer's popular breakthrough. It propelled him onto the world stage - literally, since he performed concerts in such locales as the Taj Mahal and China's Forbidden City. The exotic places fit Yanni's sweeping compositions, which incorporated crashing percussion and fleets of surging synthesizers to approximate what a wind storm would sound like if it was made of melody. "Nostalgia", "True Nature" and "Farewell" all worked on simplistic, yet extremely powerful piano lines that ebbed and flowed with new age grace. Sure, things could get a bit too soft-focus; tracks like "First Touch" were like delicate menageries teetering on a high shelf. But Yanni's command of straightforward structure and melody helped mainstream Reflections immensely."

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