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Carlos Santana: Light Dance

Carlos Santana: Light Dance

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Visual Journey to Peace
Review: As birds soar over lush landscapes, the images change to rippled sand dunes. Slowly birds soar above the clouds and then there are Salvador Dali like landscapes that blend back into skies filled with geese.

Then a wispy dance of smoke fills a dark room with playful patters that merge into a crystal sky as clouds move from the center of the screen and seems to swirl in circles above the earth. It is all quite imaginative. Soon the blue dissolves into a reflection of the sky. Swirls of light dance across a star-filled night and soon you are in the middle of a galaxy of stars. Swirling lights paint colors on planets and then return to the nothingness from which they appeared.

Next you enter a deep forest setting and creep below the underbrush as if you were a jaguar on the hunt. There are close-up views of leaves and the filming is magnificent. There are long sweeping views and the continuation from one scene to the next is blended with an extra sense of creativity. Swirling light in water phases into a reflection of trees and then the motion begins again. Like a bird, you fly across a marshland and then doves appear. Some of the scenes are magnificent in their natural wonder. Blue ferns contrast against a pink sky with trees ominously looming above. Blue water and green banks contrast with snow capped mountains. There are fields of flowers so beautiful, you can't imagine they exists in such a pristine condition.

The last section has water splashing all over the screen with a sense of wild abandon. In a frothy play the water splashes across the screen like diamonds tossed about by an angry water god. Torrents of water cascade over rocks and two surging bodies of water compete in a play for power.

Fingertips of water flow in slow motion like hands guiding the water onto rocks below. Images blend like a kaleidoscope of colors in a mesmerizing dance of nature and sound. Flames melt into a night sky and psychedelic lights swirl like stars dancing and spinning in tune with Santana's music. How can you ever see music in the same way after viewing this DVD? If music had motion, this is how it would dance.

I loved the cascades of glistening gold water. Then you roam in fields of delicate pink flowers and then follow as sparkly lights dance across a sky.

"Lightdance" is completely mesmerizing. I was going to read and occasionally glance at the screen and I ended up sitting in bed in a complete music trance and ended up playing this DVD three times in a row. I'd like to say this is a nature "music video" but it much more. It is an explosion of sound and color blended into inspiring scenes of natural beauty.

~TheRebeccaReview.com

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Light Dance
Review: I loved this video. If anyone knows of another video(s) simular to this, please let me know! It is a perfect background video for a party!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Light Dance
Review: I loved this video. If anyone knows of another video(s) simular to this, please let me know! It is a perfect background video for a party!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Relaxing DVD
Review: I purchased this DVD from about 3 years, and that was before the blowing up of DVD market. I was looking for a Santana DVD, and it was the only available one.It's a special style of relaxing music accompanied with amazing nature video clips. the idea is good, but it needs very special occasions to be viewed.
The picture quality is superb, but unfortunately the audio was set to stereo, which didn't complete the package. I think a 5.1 channel format surrounding the listener with those beautiful clips could make it surely better.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best music video's I've ever seen
Review: I've seen many visual music pieces on DVD and this is the best one I have ever seen. The visual images and effects flow so perfectly with the music. The visual images to the track Europa are absolutely stunning. David Fortney is a master at piecing these images to the music created by Santana, which is also very good. This is the first piece of art by Santana that I ever bought. I may buy a few Santana CD's after seeing this DVD. Anyone who appreciates sofisticated "dreamogenic" art work will really enjoy this piece of art. It has a "spiritual" magic to it that I can't describe. The images of nature puslating, gliding, and dancing to the sounds of Santana produces a very ludic dreamy state of mind. Some of the imagery is very "mushroomic" in nature. This is the sort of art work that is meant to be enjoyed in a clear tranquil meditative state of mind. If you're looking for a "rock video" you will be very dissapointed. This is more of a spiritual music video. The scenes with the universe spinning arround while a puslating, flying light dances to the guitar solos are breath taking. Obviously the intent of this DVD is to produce a musical experiance that gorify's god's wonderful creation from a grain of sand, to a flower, to the universe, its all very spiritial content. An absolutely wonderful DVD! I recommend this DVD for the mature, spiritually inclinded audience. Also, instead of popcorn and cola, I recomend having mushrooms and tea while watching this DVD.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Visuals that complement well the guitar of Santana
Review: If you are a true Santana fan you will definitely enjoy this DVD. The director does a great job of expressing the sounds using visuals. It contains some excellent nature shots mixed in with modern digital effects.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Visuals that complement well the guitar of Santana
Review: If you are a true Santana fan you will definitely enjoy this DVD. The director does a great job of expressing the sounds using visuals. It contains some excellent nature shots mixed in with modern digital effects.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: disappointed !!
Review: It would have been better to buy a music CD instead of buying a DVD to listen to Santana music showing only some colored video clips of mother nature.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Light music
Review: One star at best. Put me to sleep. Could have listened to my other Santana cd's with same result. Actually my other cd's sound better than this one as far as reproduction goes.

Have to agree with the Ohio viewer

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beautiful music and visuals
Review: The other reviewer is wrong, wrong, wrong! See it yourself and let you be the judge. Santana's music is great no matter how you listen to it. The visuals are great. They are not meant to be for IMAX theaters, although I for one would love to see this video there.


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