This is not music I tend to listen too, so another one thats just leaves me a bit cold I am afried it would not really chill me out either I guess its all about how music moves and emotionally connects to each of us
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This is not music I tend to listen too, so another one thats just leaves me a bit cold I am afried it would not really chill me out either I guess its all about how music moves and emotionally connects to each of us
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Now I am in a remote place and I cannot get Spotify .. any ideas anyone ..
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Ok, just finished the CD... Well it's all over the placeI think it's trying a bit too hard to be everything to everyone...
For instance, the vocals on track 1 kind of reminded me of a certain Mr sinatra? Then we have what could be any or all of the Cafe Del Mar albums.. We then get treated to a female vocalist that sounds like she has a peg on her nose (later on she sounds different)...
Following on from this we have the afro caribbean band & finally we get treated to some classical
It's ok, but it's too much of a mixed bag & i don't see what the idea is frankly... Make it chillout & have the whole album chill...
Like John i tend to prefer instrumental ablums of this kind of genre (lounge music) & would much prefer to stick on some Cafe Del Mar, they are more consistant.
This gets a 3 from me, if there were 0.5 allowed it would get 2.5
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well I listened to it after finally getting spotify working, and I think it is OK. when I say OK, what I mean is that I could certain listen to it again, especially as Tim mentioned the tracks with the nice female vocals. However, it would be wrong of me to give it a very high score just because I like a couple of tracks and so I give it 3. Had more of the tracks been vocal, I would have rated it higher.
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Well I managed to get a download of this through the firewall somehow .. don't ask where it came from ...
Music for me has to be involving, and be going somewhere. This stuff meanders around, has an overbearing, repetitive and fairly boring bass presence throughout and seems to consist of lots of little bits stuck in around and on top of this bass line. The vocals do not convince ... they sound affected and contrived .. every now and again it almost gets some feeling .. I don't mind In The Waiting Line .. bit it just falls short. At other times it sounds like she is trying lamely to add feeling with artificial warbles and the odd ... UH! ( or she wants to be Norah Jones .. now that is good chill :-) )
There is no sense of coherance .. and of music being built towards a conclusion .. maybe that is what chill is .,.. just meandering "cool" soundbites put together in an attempt to create a soundscape. The orchestral bits sound like they come from a different era altogether .. just don't fit .. it sounds like someone has sat in a bedroom and made a collage of loops .. There is no .... togetherness ! It has lots of bits of the "real stuff" in there .. but it just doesn't come over as a performance ...
I can see how this might be attractive or pleasant when one is in the "Love the world for a few hours state" .... .. but that is what makes it easy to get sucked into stuff like this ............. ....... 2 stars here............
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Well this is certainly proving to be an interesting week, and still too early to start summarising the responses so far, but it is great anecdotal evidence to add to my "research" for a theory that I will be proposing when it comes to its conclusion...
Hope that's got you interested!
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It has indeed Alex ... and I'm giving it a few more listens to judge if I was being too harsh ...Well this is certainly proving to be an interesting week, and still too early to start summarising the responses so far, but it is great anecdotal evidence to add to my "research" for a theory that I will be proposing when it comes to its conclusion...
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