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| Between Green and Blue | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 128391
Category: Music
Artist: David Helpling
Publisher: Spotted Peccary
Studio: Spotted Peccary
Manufacturer: Spotted Peccary
Label: Spotted Peccary
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 723723139528
EAN: 6000280801230
ASIN: B000003YRJ
Release Date: March 7, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Stormchaser | | • | Plateau | | • | Alone at the Shore | | • | Share the Secret | | • | Wild Things | | • | Home | | • | Loss of Words | | • | Worlds | | • | Blue Sun | | • | November | | • | Emeralds | | • | End of an Era |
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Amazon.com
If it looks like a Patrick O'Hearn album and sounds like a Patrick O'Hearn album, it must be...David Helpling. The O'Hearn influence is ever-present on Helpling's beautifully produced debut album, from the dark Indigo hues of the album cover to the warm synthesizer textures and percussive rhythmic throb. And although it is blindfold-test close to O'Hearn, it is nevertheless a compelling debut. Helpling cranks up dramatic rhythms on "Stormchaser," and brings an Asian feel to the hypnotic grooves of "Share the Secret." Helpling has a unique melodic sensibility that will carry him into new territory. The signs are already there on this evocative and remarkably consistent album. --John Diliberto
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Great "upbeat mood" CD March 30, 2009
Having been a Patrick O'Hearn fan I was really excited by this album. Even though it is an older album I believe it to be a fun, light, and ambiant. I have been disappointed by the later O'Hearn albums and other simular music because it seems too serious and sleepy. This album tends to be a little more upbeat. Now don't get me wrong - it has a couple of slow peaceful "emo" tracks on it as well if you want to chill. I enjoy the different beats and styles that the artist explores - it's fun to listen to while I serf the web. Overall I recommend it and hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
One of My All-time Favorite Albums February 26, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Between Green and Blue may be David Helping's debut album (1997), but it sure sounds like the work of a mature musician. The multi-instrumental disc covers just about all the ground there is in symphonic electronica, along with its exquisite use of percussion, bass, and guitar -- from start to finish it's just captivating, moody, and mesmerizing. The aural landscapes that Helping creates get into your head and if you are not careful, you'll find yourself listening to this album over and over, just as I do. This is one for the all-time best list for its genre.
 Wide range January 9, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some of the arrangements are brilliant and innovative. However, some of the loops are dragged on an on to the point of annoying monotony.
Between Green and Blue is a turquoise beauty! October 5, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This debut album from New Age musician David Helpling is a really beautiful album and a wonderful hidden gem. The album cover perfectly showcases the mood of this album: Moody and mysterious yet very much at the same time, calming and peaceful.
Patrick O'Hearn fans will certainly enjoy this CD a lot because it borrows a lot of the styles of what Patrick O'Hearn composed and recorded during the 1980s. The most O'Hearn inspired tracks are the beautiful opener "Stormchaser" with it's stormy melody and exotic rhythm, the eerie "Alone At the Shore", "Wild Things" and "The Blue Sun" which almost sounds like something that could've come from O'Hearn's 1986 album "Between Two Worlds".
However other songs also have a distinguishable style with "Emeralds" being such a beautiful and heavily rhythmic beat, hauntingly beautiful melody, and a really cool chord change during the middle of the song.
While this album might have been slightly clouded by being a little too much like copying O'Hearn's 1980s style music, "Between Green and Blue" is a fabulous debut album from Helpling and I highly recommend purchasing a copy of this wonderful album.
Beautiful sound-scapes... January 13, 2003
This cd is amazing. I first heard 'Share the secret' back in 2000 on 88.1 KCWC the Star-gate ( a college radio station in Wyoming). I was hooked by the first minute into the song. I went and purchased the album and was amazed at the consistancey of the songs. I've always been very skeptical when it comes to purchasing new age music. You can't go wrong with Helpling, I've since purchased 'Treasure' and 'Sleeping on the edge of the world', all are amazing musical journeys. ***Highly recommended***
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