FIAMMA FUMANA
1.0 (Omnium Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This CD falls just short of being perfect. The Italian trio combines traditional music elements like accordion, bagpipe, and beautiful vocals (sung in Italian, I'm assuming) with dance rhythm tracks and synthesizer effects on these near-flawless recordings, and that is, perhaps, where the problem lies-for me, anyway. I prefer my tribal music raw, brutal and passionate, and my techno edgy and loaded with static and dissonance. These songs, while rendered expertly so far as sound quality and song construction go, feel too squeaky-clean and contrived to make much more impact in my heart than a particularly cool car commercial.

© 2001 - Holly Day