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Wombatmusic – Shameful Silence (Chill Tribe) 2007
Wombat Music is Kristian Thinning Andersen.
Mastering by : Eldar Von Essen
This album like all the previous Chill Tribe releases includes an eight pages booklet & gives a serious clue about why the artist decided that all incomes from the sales of this cd will support Lebanese refugee children via Red Cross.
Tracks are slightly mixed together.
1.World Travelling Eclipse Chasers => Somehow this tune reminds me : Sonic Fusion - Tribal Warrior, not as percussive but in its long hypnotic groovy construction with African influences.
2. A Poem Of Hope => Direction orient with flutes & sitar which deliver bewitching melodies, more strangely you can notice dogs barking very far in the background.
3. Artificial Earth Satellite => Here, some voices are incorporated & i'm quite destabilized by the presence of the 'chiki chika' gimmick. Indeed for me, it's very connoted to the latin eurodance productions (Not Real Presence group anthem's Chiki Chika). Here this gimmick confers a rhythm to the tune, a tempo; that's quite different from its original use.
4. 96 Plus A Few Seconds => Just a transition between a first-3 tracks «Deep , mental & hypnotic» part with a new direction in the album.
5. Time Zones => Lets place to more melody, nevertheless the way it's delivered is sounding too puffing for me : it's somehow lacking of conviction & results clumsy.
6. Future Society => A new step forward into melody & plus, i would add harmony. This tune contrasts with all the previous by its coloration, less sad, more contemplative & fairish or spacey.
The style differs too here : the rhythmic is more present with a first-plan sustained bassline.
Some little French words are scattered all over the song 'mon dieu!' (oh! my god) in order to probably highlight an un-wished situation.
7. You Are On My Mind =>A simple Piano + Wombat's vocal's song at first, the layer & synths only appear after 3'00 rejoined later on by the rhythmic, all this in a very soft mixing.
8. Copalectrocabana => Another step forward happiness with this traditional Brazilian theme in a Wombat's adaptation, more moody...
9. Why Not? => Constitutes the second transition's phase of the album toward the third & epilogue part of Shameful Silence.
10. Shimmering Madness And Hovering Butterflies => The tune is particularly airy with a freshness coming out from it.
11. Shameful Silence I
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12. Shameful Silence II
=> Some texts by Houry Seukunian are incorporated , in English on the first part & more astonishingly in French again on the second part. The first part is more electronic whereas the second is more purified. These tracks constitutes a melancholic end to this album consisting in a realistic (melt of asking,doubts, hopes) vision from a 'mature' artist with his environment.
My favourites: 1,6,8,10,12 |
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