He had this incredible gift for matching melody to language.
In 1995, Alternative Press magazine ranked the album at #74 in their "Top 99 Of '85-'95" list, noting that "Love works in extremes and wears that scarlet letter when she feels like it, and when she doesn't she rips it off, never neglecting melody and language as the real medium for her message".
Listen lazily and The Crying Light is monotonous: that mournful vibrato, skirting melodies, abandoning language and dissolving into a kind of glossolalia on Dust and Water.
He seems directorially energized, letting the melody of the language carry the drama.
"English speakers are drawn to the melody of a language such as French or Italian," explains Dr Patti Adank, a lecturer on speech, hearing and phonetic sciences at University College London (UCL).
The right frontal lobe mediates language melody or prosody and forms a cohesive discourse, interprets abstract communication in spoken and written languages, and interprets the inferred relationships involved in communications.
Having previously lived in France for two years, the director was "used to the melody of the language, and once the script was completed in Farsi, I worked on the adaptation into French for two months.
Using the tonal musical language, melodies, harmonies and textures were shaped into highly charged tales of solitary desire and communal enterprise, primal encounters and heroic efforts.
The approach won him acclaim in the region, but he also amassed a growing global following, thanks to his engaging stage presence, his sturdy Western-influenced melodies, and English language ballads such as "No Man Will Ever Love You like I Do".
As William Weir writes on Slate, "English-only listening habits deprive us of the natural rhythm and melody of other languages -- the nasal vowels of French, the alveolar trills of Portuguese, the consonant clusters of Czech".
