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Title: The Spring of Rite
Review: When this album came out in 1991 it immediately stood out because it sounded like nothing else before -- or since. Greenland made use of the current digital synthesizers (he was a sound designer for Ensoniq) but in a way that was totally unique to John. His pieces on this album are more "tone poems" than pretty little tunes; in fact they share more with Stravinsky or Holst than the New Age "knife and fork music" which was popular at the time. These are bold singular tracks, challenging and rewarding of repeated listenings.Over the years most of the digital synthesis of the '90s has faded from my playlist. Not so with "Soft Robot" -- it remains one of the handful of really unique statements which still manages to amaze and delight, 18 years later.
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