Maybe it was the cider but I had to know more. So I was watching BBC 2’s Arena in my Harold’s Cross bedsit. A bit like the US version of a Beatles album. Another Green World consists of 13 tracks but you can make your own hipster edition that omits the above trio. It’s Phil Collins on drums and percussion. Take three tracks and check out the personnel credits. “I admit that I stayed away from this just because of Phil Collins.” (Kurt Hungus) The lyrics refer to a young orphan being comforted by his older brother despite the loss of their parents. Meanwhile Deep Forest’s Sweet Lullaby is based around a traditional Baegu lullaby from the Solomon Islands and uses a vocal sample originally recorded by ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp in 1970. Julien Temple directed the video, which depicts a man’s life in reverse, starting with him dying and ending with his baptism as a baby. Elsewhere an Amis people (indigenous Taiwanese) chant their Elders’ Drinking Song to open. Angel X (mostly) and Sandra take care of the vocals: “It’s not the beginning of the end, it’s the return to yourself, the return to innocence.”. Zipping back to the start of the CD and we get to hear Enigma’s Return To Innocence. By 1989 he did just that, the World Face one – “Every year, the world’s favourite airline brings 24 million people…together.” Monalisa Young is the wonderful singer with Yanni assisting McLaren with the reworking of The Flower Duet into Aria On Air. Svengali time: back in 1977 who would have expected Malcolm McLaren to be scoring a British Airways commercial. That’s uh, neat ’cause I used to look at them all the time, when I was little. Um, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would catch the colours everywhere. And, uh, when it would rain, it would all turn – it- They were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact. Jones: “They went on forever – They – When I w- We lived in Arizona, and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in ’em, and, uh… they were long… and clear and… there were lots of stars at night. Interviewer: “What were the skies like when you were young?” They use a Morricone harmonica while Rickie Lee Jones is the sampled voice and claimed she was suffering from a cold. It’s followed by the floating sound of The Orb’s Little Fluffy Clouds, released in November 1990. The edited version is here, concise yet losing no serenity. Michael Nyman’s The Promise still has the power to instantly relax an almost hypnotic composition in its simplicity. The longer mix appears to be the default on the majority of contemporary compilations so the inclusion of the single edit is very welcome here. However there is a significant variant in that Orinoco Flow is in 7″ form on Pure Moods as opposed to the Watermark version on Moods. Meanwhile three more featured on the 1992 follow-up: Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene (Part IV), Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells Part 1 (Edit), Ennio Morricone – Theme From The Mission. Stewart featuring Candy Dulfer – Lily Was Here, Kenny G – Songbird, Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Angelo Badalamenti – Twin Peaks Theme (Instrumental).
The overlapping tracks are as follows: Jan Hammer – Crockett’s Theme, Enya – Orinoco Flow, Vangelis – Chariots Of Fire, Ennio Morricone – Chi Mai, Barrington Pheloung – Theme From Inspector Morse, Enigma – Sadeness Part 1, Praise – Only You, David A.
There are 11 tracks here that first appeared on the original 1991 Moods compilation and you can read my thoughts on them in those reviews. VTCD28 was the UK catalogue number, the front cover promising sunshine and tranquility in the form of “a contemporary soundtrack” with top billing being awarded to Enigma, Enya, Deep Forest, Mike Oldfield, Kenny G, Jan Hammer, Vangelis, The Orb and many more. After the successful Moods and Moods 2, Virgin upped their game in 1994 with the launch of Pure Moods which also had a subsequent release in the US – albeit in a revised tracklist and more about that below.
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