▼Jasper ( GA ) - United States
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I've been listening to and playing Celtic Music for many years. In ten years of festival participation and a St Patricks Day parade or two under my belt, I've got to say I'm rarely impressed by a band's first efforts. Xera have nailed it. I've worked with some of the best bands out there and seen many many more live. This album is a superlative effort a fusion of very traditional sounds and non traditional, somewhat reminiscent of AfroCelt Soundsystem.
Xera perfectly blend traditional Asturian music with electronica. If you listen to this and your feet aren't moving around the floor, check your pulse - you are already DEAD!
This music borders on the profound, truly! The progressions from traditional to modern flow very naturally and never sound forced. A perfect marriage of all the passion of the Celts we are all used to, and those from the North of Spain which few of us even know existed.
To anyone who loves Celtic or Bluegrass music, put this one on and ROCK your neighbors!
I don't know how, but Mindthings keep growing. The musical journey which I began with "Lifepath" continues with "Above Everything". This is excellent music, evoking deep stirring emotions, while leaving one relaxed at the same time. Genre? What genre, who cares really, just play it and see for yourself.
A truly stunning album, takes me on an emotional journey. I notice a progression of style and ability starting with this album moving through the rest of the artist's works. I'm really not sure what category this music 'fits in' maybe Chill. It kind of reminds me of Moby at times, and having visited the website I can see why. Whatever it is, get it, and enjoy!
Williamson is music like no one else's! The ONLY music which comes close to this would be Global Communication's rework of Chapterhouse Blood Music: "Pentamorous Metamorphosis". I completely forget myself while listening, and I agree with another reviewer, who found themselves forgetting they were listening to music!
Williamson takes your mind elsewhere while listening, whether doing something else (such as computing) at the time or not. I often put my player in 'repeat mode' and the hours just 'go somewhere' while listening!
I couldn't tell anyone how to classify this material, other than awesome! It seems to defy classification. While there is 'structure' it is not in a 'progressive' or 'themed' sense. The music seems to be more like a sequence of 'tonal poems' which not while 'building' ON each other, don't exist entirely independent OF each other. Am I making any sense? No, I didn't think so either.
Just do yourself a HUGE FAVOR, download this! Listen to it while doing something which demands your attention and monitor your 'progress'. You will get more done than you can imagine, and wonder to yourself where the last 4 hours just went! You will find your mind mysteriously 'cleansed' and you will be 'refreshed' as though you had relaxed for the first time in a very LONG time!
I can't recommend this music highly enough!
Very good stuff here, in a dark down tempo mode for the most part. "Zero Land" is easily my favorite track as I remember MLK JR very well from early childhood. Amazing treatment of the sampling of his "I Have a Dream" speech. Strange Zero are an infectious form of art ... dark and hypnotic, mostly down-tempo or chill form of ambient
Absolutely brilliant stuff here. Very 'world beat' in that it combines genres and cultures and does so beautifully. I'm at times reminded of the very first "Afrocelt" album, not so much in sound but in professionally rendered tracks crossing cultural lines. You end up with a perfect fusion of styles. The violin (more often played like eastern folk fiddle) is flawless and powerful!
Brilliant brilliant material, when are you recording MORE???
When consideration that this is the efforts of a single individual, I am impressed indeed! This is hypnotic work, getting under my skin and staying there. I do not speak the language the tracks are sung in, I don't need too. The language of music is universal. Great effort, I look forward to MORE!
This is wonderful dark, lush moody stuff! Very contemplative, though on the dark subject of our mortality. Somebody should play all of this at my funeral. I find that "...And She Starts With Death" haunts me like few other pieces of music can, simply astonishing! Structurally, this album is many variations on a theme, however, it all works.
While I'm not 100% sure this is properly categorized, it is however very good material. It reminds me of Euro-trance with Oriental influences. Definitely worth a listen and play listing.
Awesome moods here! My favorite track has to be "What Happens When You Die" Very good downtempo material on this album
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