Between Green and Blue

Editorial Reviews
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If it looks like a Patrick O'Hearn album and sounds like a Patrick O'Hearn album, it must be...David Helpling. The O'Hearn influence is ever-present on Helpling's beautifully produced debut album, from the dark Indigo hues of the album cover to the warm synthesizer textures and percussive rhythmic throb. And although it is blindfold-test close to O'Hearn, it is nevertheless a compelling debut. Helpling cranks up dramatic rhythms on "Stormchaser," and brings an Asian feel to the hypnotic grooves of "Share the Secret." Helpling has a unique melodic sensibility that will carry him into new territory. The signs are already there on this evocative and remarkably consistent album. --John Diliberto

Between Green and Blue,David Helpling,Spotted Peccary,Contemporary Instrumental,New Age,New Age / Meditation,Pop

Between Green and Blue

Average customer rating:

Wide range

Between Green and Blue is a turquoise beauty!

As good as Patrick O'Hearn

Very cool!

Love it

Between Green and Blue
David Helpling
Manufacturer: Spotted Peccary
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music
Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music
General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B000003YRJ
Release Date: 2000-03-07

Tracks:

Stormchaser
Plateau
Alone At the Shore
Share the Secret
Wild Things
Home
Loss Of Words
Worlds
The Blue Sun
November
Emeralds
End Of an Era

Amazon.com

If it looks like a Patrick O'Hearn album and sounds like a Patrick O'Hearn album, it must be...David Helpling. The O'Hearn influence is ever-present on Helpling's beautifully produced debut album, from the dark Indigo hues of the album cover to the warm synthesizer textures and percussive rhythmic throb. And although it is blindfold-test close to O'Hearn, it is nevertheless a compelling debut. Helpling cranks up dramatic rhythms on "Stormchaser," and brings an Asian feel to the hypnotic grooves of "Share the Secret." Helpling has a unique melodic sensibility that will carry him into new territory. The signs are already there on this evocative and remarkably consistent album. --John Diliberto

Customer Reviews:

Wide range.......2007-01-09

Some of the arrangements are brilliant and innovative. However, some of the loops are dragged on an on to the point of annoying monotony.

Between Green and Blue is a turquoise beauty! .......2004-10-06

This debut album from New Age musician David Helpling is a really beautiful album and a wonderful hidden gem. The album cover perfectly showcases the mood of this album: Moody and mysterious yet very much at the same time, calming and peaceful.

Patrick O'Hearn fans will certainly enjoy this CD a lot because it borrows a lot of the styles of what Patrick O'Hearn composed and recorded during the 1980s. The most O'Hearn inspired tracks are the beautiful opener "Stormchaser" with it's stormy melody and exotic rhythm, the eerie "Alone At the Shore", "Wild Things" and "The Blue Sun" which almost sounds like something that could've come from O'Hearn's 1986 album "Between Two Worlds".

However other songs also have a distinguishable style with "Emeralds" being such a beautiful and heavily rhythmic beat, hauntingly beautiful melody, and a really cool chord change during the middle of the song.

While this album might have been slightly clouded by being a little too much like copying O'Hearn's 1980s style music, "Between Green and Blue" is a fabulous debut album from Helpling and I highly recommend purchasing a copy of this wonderful album.

As good as Patrick O'Hearn.......2001-12-19

If you're a fan of Patrick O'Hearn's sound, I think you'll be pleased with this album that might fall somewhere between "Between Two Worlds" and "Metaphor" of O'Hearn's. It's relaxing, but cheery -- excellent for solid listening or background ambiance.

I bought this album based on Amazon.com recommendations, and I was VERY pleased with it. I'll be looking for more of Helpling's material.

Very cool!.......2001-11-21

An incredible masterpiece of creativity with pleasant melodies. The music sets your mind free to wander with its interesting rhythms and patterns.

Love it.......2001-10-12

Very smooth sound. All of the tracks have a unique sound that makes me want more.

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David Helping

Between Green and Blue

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000E1DQNS

Customer Reviews:

David Helping.......2006-05-26

David Helping is an artist who understands and conveys emotional depth through his music. With a soundtrack feel and approach, he paints for the listener a story of the heart. His music is progressive and unique in many respects in regard to the genre of New Age, with his mastered use of guitar swells and various deep percussion effects.
A true testament to his artistry and capability as a composer, lies in the fact that David has never had musical training. He is a self taught musician with two fine albums to his credit. His debut 'Between Green And Blue' won the Indie Album of the Year Award for 1996. As impressive as this release was, his second effort 'Sleeping on the Edge of the World' soars lights years ahead of the prior. Sleeping...is an enthralling work. Titles such as 'Deepest Days' and Soul Of A Child' express a reflective and sympathetic view of humanity at the end of the day. It offers a temporary escape from the troubles an woahs of the world in which we live. Suprisingly, David Helping's musical endeavors are more a side work in view of the fact that he owns and operates his own successful media company, which has produced themes for commercial television and several film scores.