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BROKEN CHINA

Richard Wright

 

Crossover Prog

3.99 | 235 ratings

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Guillermo
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4 stars In December 1996 I went to a record shop and I saw this album there. But it was until this year that I could listen to it. I read in the web some interviews done with Wright when this album was released in 1996. He said that the songs in this album were composed with the conceptual theme of a person which is afflicted with clinical depression. He said then in those interviews that the person which inspired this album was "a friend", but later it was known that this friend was really his then wife who suffered from depression. The songs in the album relate with lyrics and sometimes with only instrumental music the experiences that this person suffered and which led her to depression.They also relate this person`s healing process until her recovery from this condition.

I really expected a very "dark" and "depressing" album. Maybe that was the main reason to not buy this album in 1996 when I saw it in the record shop. But Wright`s talent really helped him to make a very good album full of musical moods and atmospheres, using a lot of the then new digital keyboards. But maybe the most important thing in this album was the empathy that Wright showed musically and lyrically for this person`s personal history and how he also experienced the process of this condition with this person. For me, it was a very good gesture done by Wright for his then wife.

Guillermo | 4/5 |

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