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REVIEWS + MEDIA
- from Grooves Magazine #9
- from Star's End 2001 overview by Chuck Van Zyl
- from Ampersand Etc. 2001-16, 9.25.2001
- from Vital #289, the Staalplaat e-newsletter [posted 9.6.2001]
- from Jim Brenholts of Ambient Visions
- from David Opdyke's AmbiEntrance webzine
- from All Music Guide by Matt Borghi
- go here to listen to an interview with Dean Santomieri where he disucusses the creation and evolution of The Boy Beneath the Sea (courtesy of Discreet Music/KPFA).
- airplay on Inner Space (broadcast on 100,5 FM Radio Student in Zagreb, Croatia), Le Vestibule (broadcast on CFOU 89.1 FM in Trois-Rivieres-Ouest, Quebec, Canada), Wired for Sound (broadcast on CHRW 94.7 FM in London, Ontario, Canada), Martian Gardens (broadcast on WMUA 91.1 FM in Amherst, MA), Incoming Wounded/Ambient Drift (broadcast on WEFT 90.1 FM in Champaign, IL), and Feedback Monitor (broadcast on CIUT 89.5 FM in Toronto, Canada)
(updated 12.17.2002)
"The Boy Beneath the Sea gifts the listener with a timeless tale of a young boy who leaves his heartbroken family to live beneath the waves. Dean Santomieri's original story draws the seduction of the sea from the deep well of legend and myth and then casts to the mind and heart a new experience. At once, wondrous, wrenching and as boundless as its source, The Boy Beneath the Sea uniquely explores both the the perspective of the boy in his new world as well as that of his parents and sister in their loss. Themes and dreams of wonder, fear, guilt, impotence, love, anguish and freedom shift as deep currents through this work. Dean Santomieri's deeply resonant, sublime narration blends in perfect suspension with the fluid, lyrical and haunting musical setting provided by Bruce Anderson, Karen Stackpole and David Kwan."