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By
Kathryn Sargent, Editor
Imagine
sailing across diamond-studded waves in
the afternoon sun on the Pacific with dolphins
playing off your bow. See yourself picnicking
on the beach at sunset, or listening to
the wind-chime like sounds of rigging hitting
the masts of all the boats at the dock,
and you'll have the feel of Medwin Goodall's
Winds Across the Pacific. This
music is like the essence of summer in sound:
breezy, laid-back, happy, uplifting. Though
a bit of a recluse,
Medwin Goodall is one of the most popular
New Age recording artists, and with the
best of reasons: amazing talent. All music
on this album was composed, arranged, performed,
recorded, and mastered by Goodall. He plays
grand piano, panpipes, fretless bass, acoustic
guitar, oboe, Korg and Roland synthesizers,
and more. All this from a musician who doesn't
read a note of music!! Amazing talent, indeed.
So, turn on Winds Across the Pacific and
take your own voyage to Lemuria this summer.
The
Dum Dum Project's Export Quality
grabbed me from the first driving bass notes
and the drums just held me captive from
there. A mixture of slick sophistication,
Indian spice, and funk, this disc is trance-dance
music with tablas, drum sets, sitars, bass
guitars, chanting, organ, turntables, some
funky turntable and programming work, some
d.j. “shout-outs”-just wild. I've
never heard Om Nama Shivaya chanted to such
a great beat before! I defy you to sit still
and listen to this one; it will literally
kick you out of your chair and shake you
until you dance! This is a very urban sound,
with some really strange and fascinating
surprises. The beat and the bass carry you
along, and they sound so good, you're
ready for whatever weird surprise they want
to throw at you. Great fun, great to dance
to, and great messages: “Be love itself.
Be yourself. Boundless and changeless. You
are boundless, limitless, joy. You are love
itself.”
From
the first pensive notes of Ken Page's
trumpet in “For One Like You,”
Kinan's Emerging is a
sensitive exploration of inner worlds. Kinan
-Alberto Roman and Harold Timms
-bring us this collaborative experience
of Emergence Art, in which Kristin McLean,
Peggy Bower, Todd Haygood, Eric Peterson,
Ken Page and Glenn Weinstein join
to “delight in the unknown.” The
instrumentation includes acoustic guitar,
djembe, tabourah, dharbouka, frame drum,
bells, cymbols, ocarinas, rattles, water
gourd, timbres, 6 & 12 string electric
guitar, keyboards, water harp (a new one
on me!), E-Bow, vocals and trumpet. The
music is simultaneously exotic and intimately
familiar. It tantalizes and teases with
water effects, chimes and percussion, exploring
new frontiers of sound. I'm not sure I even
quite believe what I'm hearing! This CD
is highly original, inventive and infinitely
enjoyable. Don't miss it!
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