Prepare yourselves, for the end is nigh. At least for the next few months, until the big bells strike in the new year and, in the cold light of the morning after, executives everywhere begin to contemplate the piles of unsold millennium mugs and t-shirts and wonder why. No furry mouse-mats or 'Millennarians do it for 1,000 years' baseball caps.
Music affords a time for reflection, for spirituality, for embracing the human potential.
Or so the sloganeers tell us. It somehow feels that all bases linguistic and religious included are being covered in an attempt to embrace a blanket spirituality. The effect of Elias' nine sonorous hymns, each dedicated to a single theme such as mercy, grace and compassion, is frankly numbing. The test of a millennial record is simple. The answer should be immediately apparent.