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by Yulara
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CD album All is One is one of those albums that defies categorizing.
It is kind of a combination of New Age music, techno-hip hop,
jazz and world music which touches on African, Aboriginal,
Oriental, Native American and Slavic European cultures. Keyboardist
Robert Matt and flutist Anne Hilsberg, who live in Berlin,
Germany, have put together an amazing combination of musical
styles, solid rhythm programs, lush orchestrations, distinctive
ethereal solos and exotic sampled voices in creating this
album. The first track, "Invoking the Spirit," is
a good example as it begins with the chanting Zen monks of
Uno Domini from Kyoto, Japan and then transitions into late-night,
gentle jazz saxophone with a techno-dance groove that is as
smooth as liquid glass. There are a dozen original compositions
on this album -- all of them equally good.
I have actually spent quite a bit of time
listening to this album for my own enjoyment. I am attracted
to it because if it's combination of simplicity and sophistication.
Matt and Hilsberg have taken what might have been thought
to be traditional music and put together a very original and
innovative style of their own -- that kind of defies logic.
In this album, they have a fusion of new-age-etheric-space
music and get-up-and-dance rhythms. It would probably be a
great album to listen to while one was practicing
T'ai Chi Tuan.
This album CD can be ordered from: Higher
Octave Music, 23852 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 2C, Malibu,
CA 90265.
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