Andreas Vollenweider, Cosmopoly - 57m 56s

Tracks & Durations

1. Morning Poem	1:13
2. Stella	5:18
3. Elle Chelle	3:13
4. Vals Del Sur	3:32
5. Hush, My Heart, Be Still ...	5:42
6. Petit Smile	1:54
7. Under One Moon	4:55
8. Ancient Pulse	4:01
9. Peachtree Valley	3:35
10. Bright Moon, Still Shining ...	1:06
11. At The Forest Fountain	6:08
12. Your Silver Key	1:55
13. Long Road To You	2:40
14. Capriccio	2:00
15. Will-o'-the-wisp (ignus Fatuus)	3:56
16. Cor Do Amor	2:35
17. The Fishbirdtree - Little Snap	4:04

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Review

Swiss harpist Andreas Vollenweider has always fallen just shy of brilliance. An underrated harpist, he rarely lets his flights of string fancy loose on his albums. And as a conceptualist, he usually paints himself into exotic, Gaudi-esque towers, without an exit. Cosmopoly provides that exit, but Vollenweider rarely takes it. On this album of collaborations, a jam with jazz piano legend Abdullah Ibrahim is as tentative as a first date, and Vollenweider is swamped in the mournful bath of Armenian doudouk master Djivan Gasparyan. The harpist follows Bobby McFerrin's lead in a dance of vocal pyrotechnics and his jams with trombonist Ray Anderson result in the most superficial hipster clichés. Carly Simon's rendering of a section of James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" is strictly an arty star-turn for the singer, a longtime fan of Vollenweider's.

Vollenweider fares better with his own band on the riveting melody of "Stella." Here, as well as in his writing for the Solis String Quartet and on a languidly dolorous duet with Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento, Vollenweider reveals the tuneful melodicism that flows out of his fingers like water from a spring. --John Diliberto

Other Versions

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Cosmopoly

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 57m 54s (-1m 58s)

Cosmopoly

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 57m 54s (-1m 58s)

Cosmopoly

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 57m 36s (-1m 40s)

Cosmopoly

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 57m 17s (-1m 21s)

Cosmopoly

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 56m 55s (-2m 59s)

Cosmopoly

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 60m 26s (+2m 30s)

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