Dreams d'Azur

Personally, I did not like Wish I Could Dream It Again at all. I also notice how much lower it's rated on this site than this remake. So I ask the question, what's better about these songs now?

I think Novembre were pretty confused about exactly what they wanted to do with their first album, so they put some pretty basic stuff on it, and people seemed to realize it wasn't an extraordinary album.

What we have here, is just a re-recorded version of a simplistic, messy record. The ONLY track that really stands out on this album, just as it did on the first album, is "The Dream Of The Old Boats". Novembre gave us one gem from their beginning. But, everything else was pretty much skipped around a couple minutes into the song.

There are no melodies, riffs, or vocal harmonies that really reach out and grab you on this record. Certainly nothing like Novembrine Waltz. The drums are pretty much standard double-bass, all the way through, There is little variation in the instrumentation on this album, and that is the real problem with it.

They found something great in "The Dream Of The Old Boats", but it seems that they tried to twist and contort that one song into several different songs, that turned out to be far inferior. I will say that the vocals are MUCH louder and clearer here than they were on the original version of the album, which coupled with the opening track, is the only reason it even gets a 50.

Carmello Orlando has such a great, soothing voice, and it is just too little used on this album. There are so many distorted vocals on this early stuff, and I think it took the finished product, and them hearing it, to realize that utilizing Carmelo's clean vocals more often than not was going to be the future of their music.

I would love to hear Novembre do another album where strictly clean vocals are used. Materia was close, and a very good album, but no cigar. Arte Novecento is a masterpiece. I'd love to hear another like it.