DEEP FOREST
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Reviewed by Holly Day

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Upbeat, funky acid jazz that does a wonderful job mixing keyboards and electronic blips and buzzes with world music in a way that I haven't heard done so well before. There are songs here that feature wonderful vocals from a variety of sources that range from high-pitched Indian female singers to much lower, almost Gregorian chant male vocals to voices fed through a vocoder that could be either male or female. Obviously the overall purpose of the music was to bring Eastern Western music styles together without compromising the integrity of either - so many of these attempts end up being quirky dance music - here, they have succeeded beautifully.

© 2002 - Holly Day