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CD album: Eve Audio CD (2001) Label: Cyclops (Cycl 104) Available to buy with Paypal. Price: £7.50 Price includes postage and packaging to anywhere in the world. (CD's are listed in UK Pounds, but Paypal allows you to buy in several currencies including US Dollars, Euros, Yen). |
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Eve is inspired by the short novel The Future Eve, written in 1886 by Villiers de L'Isle Adam. It tells the story of the 'world-famed inventor and master electrician Professor X', who creates a 'perfect' mate for his disturbed friend Lord Ewald. The story is full of fantastical descriptions and images - the android ('Andraiad'), the not yet fully formed human potential or spectre that would become her soul and the quasi-scientific apparatus of Professor X. The Future Eve also fondly brought back to mind films like Bride Of Frankenstein (Universal) and Frankenstein Created Woman (Hammer) which also played a large part in helping me set the scene. I find these kind of 'morality' plays just as relevant and chilling today with the ever increasing developments in genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Also, when the creation is female, an added dimension of cruel Pygmalion-like manipulation appears. The music here isn't an adaptation of the story of The Future Eve. Instead, I was inspired to explore the work's atmosphere, tragedy and sense of misguided ambition. Composed and performed by Richard Wileman (classical, electric and bass guitars, keyboards and percussion). with Ileesha Bailey (vocals), Helen Dearnley (violin ii, v & vi), Caron Hansford (oboe, cor anglais), Zoe King (flute, alto saxophone, clarinet) and Rachel Larkins (viola, violin i). Recorded and Mastered at the Twenty First - 2000-2001. Produced by Richard Wileman. Artwork and design by Alan Read and Rai James. My sincere thanks to everyone who has taken the time to help, encourage and listen. Special mention - Chris Brown for his invaluable advice. The door is unlocked once more... REVIEWS: 'I can honestly say that Eve is one of the most unique albums I've heard in a very long time... if you enjoy instrumental music then I can't recommend this album highly enough. I don't think there is anyone else making music of this quality...' (JOHN M PETERS, THE BORDERLAND) - For full review, interviews and Eve Recording article: THE BORDERLAND ... let yourself be seduced by the beauty of 'Eve'. (MARISA, NEW HORIZONS). Full review - http://www.elrose.demon.co.uk Their sound is lush, highly melodic and heavily orchestrated - a very introspective and colorful style full of warmth, shades of emotion, and impressionistic imagery....Highly recommended. PETER THELEN (EXPOSE) http://www.expose.org I’m in love! This album is one of the most beautiful works of art I think I’ve ever heard. FLOYD (PROGRESSIVE EARS) http://www.progressiveears.com . ...A haunting powerful album. KEV ROWLAND (FEEDBACK) I think it's outstanding. ASHLEY FRANKLIN (Broadcaster and writer) The compositions are magical, filled with lilting melodies, multiple guitar colorations, delicate and light, but also at times dynamic and overflowing with powerful instrumental passages. Not to be missed.' ARCHIE PATTERSON, EUROCK http://www.eurock.com Mr. Wileman can certainly surround your imagination and bring a cinematic and meaningful sense of otherworldly classical instrumentation to these environs.' MARCELO SILVEYRA. PROGFREAKS. Full Review at http://www.progfreaks.com 'Wileman achieves a surreal melancholy and poignant beauty that has few parallels.' http://www.kinesiscd.com Eve is a work of art and a must for instrumental lovers. ... enjoy the beauty of Eve. Jem Jedrzejewski (HAIRLESS HEART HERALD) It's a mix of ambient and gothic atmospheres shaped by violins, viola and oboe, and tells the story of The Future Eve ...One to drift off to on a winter's night.' TIM JONES, (RECORD COLLECTOR) ...this imaginative and beautiful piece of work. Dave Ling (CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE) ...This is a record which puts you in a very special mood, magic and unreal as it is. Recommended. Reviewer: Sven Eriksen, Tarkus Magazine (Norway) http://www.tarkus.org This is just beautiful music... for all other music lovers who want to stretch their musical horizons, I would say, give this a try. RENATE (RAREBIRD) http://www.progressiveears.com All in all, I would say Eve is a very unique piece of music. ROB MICHEL, DPRP ...the album is one of the most emotionally stirring, atmospheric pieces of music I have heard in a very long time. Lew Fisher, PROGRESSIVE MUSIC SOCIETY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/progressivemusicsociety ...this album has given me a very new yet precise idea on how calm and hauntingly beautiful Neo-Classic music is supposed to sound. NUNO - PROGNOSIS Hauntingly beautiful, warm textured symphonic ....it caresses in it's own rather unique, rich bodied, forfilling, meloncholic, uplifting orcherstral way. Beautiful. Recommended. Sean (ORGAN) http://www.organart.com 'Bloody hell, this is a good album. ...They start off with a great album, then keep on releasing not strictly better, but stronger ones, defining their sound even further. Very picturesque and uplifting. '(DAVE W HUGHES, MODERN DANCE) http://www.modern-dance.co.uk .... This is the finest Karda Estra release yet and a definite highlight of 2001.' (STUART HAMILTON, ZEITGEIST) - http://www.zeitgeist-scot.co.uk ...Eve has the kind of music that will appeal to lovers of classical music, progressive rock and gothic alike. A great merit from someone I want to call a fresh contemporary classical composer from now on...' (JOHN 'BO BO' BOLLENBERG, PROGRESSIVE WORLD) - full review at http://www.progressiveworld.net ...Rather, it is more classical and symphonic but in a hauntingly different way. Be daring and give it a listen.' TERRY CRAVEN, WONDROUS STORIES http://www.classicrocksociety.com An excellent disc by my standards. RBH, (SONIC CATHEDRAL) http://www.soniccathedral.com ...a very creative and very musical CD, beautifully performed by Wileman (Hans D.) BACKGROUND ... an extremely worthwhile album of neo-romantic, filmic music with plenty of subtlety, melody and downright sombreness... a new and at times extremely beautiful chapter has been added. Jurriaan Hage. AXIOM OF CHOICE ...There is an inherant sense of foreboding tragedy throughout the CD's seven tracks, all accomplished through an atmospheric haze that is beautiful as it is haunting. SEA OF TRANQUILITY Pete Pardo http://www.seaoftranquility.org Soundscapes flow dreamily skyward as though set to a film score by Jean Luc Godard. Fans of Projekt Records releases will find Karda Estra a favorite among new collectibles. 4 Stars Jett Black, GOTHIC BEAUTY http://www.gothicbeauty.com ...a reflective body of work that provides the listener with the many realms of inspiration, genius, madness and loneliness, all within the confines of well-constructed orchestration. Karda Estra composed and executed a healthy musical piece. It certainly deserves the accolades often reserved for cinematic film composers... MIKE VENTAROLA - LEGENDS MAGAZINE http://www.legendsmagazine.net 'Eve' Clues... (dedicated to JMP) i. An Ordinary Mortal - High ideals and their terrible price. 'More the appearance of a distinguished artist than a plodding scientist.' ii. Andraiad - An underground vaulted hall, a soft singing voice, the long black veil... iii. The Pale Ray - A moonlit interlude, the illumination of a 'human arm and hand lying on a violet silk cushion.' iv. Super Electrical - Unknown discoveries, the laboratory and equipment take on 'the appearance of a magic grotto'. v. Eve - The ideal - not the reality. vi. Sparks that Flash and Fall... - Wisdom and understanding, a terrible tragedy and a watery grave... vii. Thoughts and Silences - The consequences: 'His was the terrible heartbreaking silence of a strong man in utter loneliness.' |
