Occidental

by Briareus

lounge jazz nu new age

12 tracks

59:55

1	Egyptian Fire	5:00
2	Charche	4:20
3	The Boatman	8:39
4	Smoked	4:55
5	Maria	3:57
6	The Great Wheel	4:28
7	Victime	3:50
8	Sadhana	5:07
9	The Waterman	4:27
10	The Last Embers of a Dying Sun	3:57
11	Beirut Love Songs	5:01
12	Zendhi.	6:14

Description

This album represents a collaborative effort across multiple continents. Artists on this album include:

Briareus – USA (www.myspace.com/briareusmusic)

Raven Bishop – USA (www.kompoz.com)

Claudio Lyon – Chile (www.myspace.com/claudiolyon)

Anchor Mejans – USA (http://anchormejans.blogspot.com)

Joglaresa - UK (http://magnatune.com/artists/joglaresa)

Monks of Kiev – Russia (http://magnatune.com/artists/monks_lavra)

Kitka - USA (http://magnatune.com/artists/kitka)

Rabindranath Tagore – India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore)

All work on this album is released and available under the Creative Commons 3.0 - NC-SA license or available in the public domain.

All songs written and produced by Briareus.

Reviews

open

no occident

02/02/08

You could simply describe it as 'lounge' music, but that umbrella term is very general. The music of the album doesn't really have a central style that it always returns to, Briareus successfully combines impressive and unexpected musical diversity, from choice instruments to the compositions. The sound production is genius and clearly the result of years of experience. This album is wonderful.

Triplexity

Going nowhere

25/01/08

All the tracks built mostly like this: mechanical unchanging rhythm goes all track long and different samples simply emerge and vanish without too much correlation and ground.

The artist is skilled with sound work and all that concerns mixing and effects, he also plays guitar very nice, but tracks are very stagnated, they go nowhere.

There are some rhythmic and tonal problems in some tracks.

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