Reviews

Even though the cover of the album is quite the opposite of what one might expect for music like this, it works really good together ;-) i liked the first and last song and used them for the following video about the "Wave Gotik Treffen" ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrM6Jmteeww

All the best and keep it up!

This is definitely my kind of thing, raucous sleazy punk rock n' roll!! Holler along lyrics, loud thrashy guitars and pummeling beats combine and clash to create a glorious rock racket. Highly recommended for lovers of loud attitude rock!!

Very pretty, exquisite, utterly lovely, healing, uplifting and gorgeous instruments, piano, strings, all so very heavenly (These words all being my initial thoughts as I listened to the first two tracks). This artists searches for true beauty, finds it and paints it for us in the liquid melodies on this album. I would describe these tunes as projecting peace and hope and flowing with the gentle instrumental layers which are not overburdened with a barrage of unnecessary sound. Some of my favorite melodies were the lightly jazz flavored "Somewhere in Time" and the Latino "Momentos de Amor" with their joyfully lilting and danceable beats. This is an unbeatable album of enjoyable tunes. Not one song misses the mark.

Well, we must go into the album with the expectation that this is experimental and will be pushing against the boundaries of what we are most familiar with, and thus we will not be shocked but pleasantly surprised! We also need to think of each instrumental entity as an unique individual with personality, temperament, hopes, and feelings in an album such as this. I would also describe this music as sometimes being on the avant-garde side of jazz.

I don't know what that percussive snapping was in "Japanese Blues" but it gave the piece a shock like effect to the ears, along with the minimalistic weaving in and out of the other instruments. Very interesting and unique. The drums, wind and piano in "a drummer" were very nice and seemed to come from everywhere. The piece "sad question" seemed to strive to have a distinctive melody and was actually quite lovely, sounding like a late night, lonely and sad song. The different instruments singing off of the others' tunes seemed oblivious to each other.

I loved the use of instruments in "get it softly!" which was confusing with flashes of exquisite musical sound flying in from here and there. There was a heart beat thrumming running along the base of this piece with the saxophone flying over the top of the other instruments.

"Scratch" was somewhat indeterminate sounding with quite a dissonance of instruments. It had lots of interesting and unusual percussion sounds and the lovely sax. I really liked the intro to "joyful ride" with the bass and sax and other instruments ambling by to introduce themselves. Delightful.

I liked the give and take with the instruments in "little ocean waves" and the Asian sounding "rain splashing down" was like a Haiku, simple and descriptive. And "happy child singing" made me smile. Good use of sound integrated in with the voices of children.

Overall I think all the musical and instrumental layers were clean sounding, making a good presentation, and all were added as a painter adds each stroke of paint to a masterpiece. I am not capable of determining whether this album is a masterpiece or not, but I really enjoyed its unique outlook and expressive nature. To me it was like reading and interpreting some excellent, quality poetry. Its good for the brain cells and quite enjoyable.

Is this authorized? If Miyavi had an official page on Jamendo I would imagine it would be a bit more extensive than this. With that being said, I think it's not only annoying to put up another artists music for free, but against the rules of this website.

Just saying...