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You can't really dance to it. You can't sing along. You can probably romance to it. But slap it on the deck just as the party’s shifting into overdrive? Welcome to the year of living dangerously. Patrick O’Hearn has scored his ticket to the Big Time by playing snappy bass with L.A.’s Missing Persons.
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PATRICK O'HEARN: SOUNDS FOR A NEW AGE
Dan Hedges
You can't really dance to it. You can't sing along. You can probably romance to it. But slap it on the deck just as the party’s shifting into overdrive? Welcome to the year of living dangerously.
Patrick O’Hearn has scored his ticket to the Big Time by playing snappy bass with L.A.’s Missing Persons. But when it came to putting together Ancient Dreams (his first solo album for Private Music, former Tangerine Dream kingpin Peter Baumann’s new label), three years of honing his pop chops seemed to go out the window.
If you insist on a category, call it New Age music. Sparse, mysterious keyboards, with an atmosphere best described as nocturnal— in other words, the kind of stuff your Uncle Larry and the crew down at the muffler shop would probably call “weird.”