COUSTEAU'S DREAM
A Benefit Album
(p) (c) 2000 Real Music
13tks/56mins

"Cousteau's Dream" is a new collected album of Real Music, dedicated to the famous researcher. Part of the money obtained for selling the album will be donated to the Cousteau Society and other organisations involved into protection of the World Ocean and its inhabitants. It's not the first Real Music's project of that kind. In 1989 the President of the company Terence Yallop had founded EarthSea to promote global environmental awareness. He had produced by this organization the successive and widely popular project "Polar Shift"", intended to raise funds to help preserve Antarctica from commercial development.

And now we can enjoy the new project by Real Music, created for the sake of noble goal of environmental protection. Here the masterpieces of the true masters of instrumental music are collected: from Vangelis and Kitaro to Michael Hoppe and Yanni. The works of various years are present in "Cousteau's Dream". You can hear there the well-known old melodies, such as inspired Vangelis' "West Across the Ocean Sea" and "Eternity" from his famous soundtrack to the film "Conquest of Paradise" or the beautiful composition "Secret Vows" from Yanni's album "Out of Silence", and also the new releases: majestic and dolorous "Lachrymosa" from disc of Michael Hoppe "The Lover - Poems by Carl Sandburg", or spiritual choral "Stella Maris" from the album "River of Stars" by the new duet 2002. Tells remarkably with its might the theme "Shakuhaji Tales" by Kamal, from its project "Mystery Road". "Future of the Sea" by Frederic Delarue is incredibly gentle and romantic, with its sounds of sea and voices of whales. Full of life is "Nageki" from Kitaro's album "Kojiki". Even the composition "Theme from Dying Young" performed by Kenny G appears there! And all this sounds beautiful, full of inspiration, there's everywhere profound poetry and aesthetics, it attracts you, and you want to listen that remarcable project again and again...

Among the non-mentioned yet artists' works the compositions of Tim Wheater Kevin Kern, the Aria project and Richard Burmer are present in "Cousteau's Dream" A company of worth musicians gathered here! Each of them has strong individuality and his own style, but you listen to them all together as one whole unity. And it's a desert of the formerrs of this project.

"Cousteau's Dream" is a recommendable sampler, a very beautiful work, a joy for a music lover.

Serge Kozlovsky