Pure Moods, Vol. 2

Track Listings

1. Mummers' Dance - Loreena McKennitt

2. Montezuma - Cusco

3. Cradlesong (Dawa) [Remix] - Cherokee Rose, Sacred Spirit

4. Nightingale - Yanni

5. Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy

6. Zarabanda (Saraband) - Adiemus

7. Euphoria (Firefly) - Delerium

8. Weather Storm - Craig Armstrong

9. Teardrop - Massive Attack

10. Theme from Harry's Game - Clannad

11. Chariots of Fire - Vangelis

12. Breezin' - George Benson

13. Emily - Dave Koz

14. 2 the Night - Ottmar Liebert

15. Beyond the Invisible - Enigma

16. Mystic's Dream - Loreena McKennitt

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
For listeners with a sincere interest in the broad variety of music loosely aligned under the New Age banner, Pure Moods II will strike your ears as something less than a high-concept showcase for the genre and more as a mulligan stew of easy-listening favorites. This is not necessarily a bad thing; yet a recording marketed to the general public as a comprehensive, current, state-of-the-art overview of atmospheric music shouldn't include such ill-fitting oddities as George Benson's "Breezin'," a lite-funk relic from 1976, or "Emily" from jazz saxophonist Dave Koz. Happily, the 77-minute, 16-track sampler offers far more items of interest than irritation. It reaches back to 1983 to remind us of an ahead-of-its-time display of Celtic mysticism from Clannad ("Theme from Harry's Game"), and it both opens and closes with superb selections from one of the genre's most admired artists, Loreena McKennitt--very appropriate since, one could argue, discussions on the future of New Age should both begin and end with McKennitt's name. Despite its few warts, Pure Moods II is a good listen overall. --Terry Wood

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Pure Moods, Vol. 2