Essence Of The Forest - Deep Forest

Advantages: Great relaxation sounds
Disadvantages: can put you to sleep

...Several years ago, a friend turned my music sites toward a group called Deep Forest. The group spans several different music venues, from jazz, to pop, to new age, as well as tribal. The first CD I bought of theirs was called Boheme' which had several songs from movies I had heard as well as several other songs which I fell in love with. Over the past 5 years, I have watched this group evolve with their newest release called Composa. This release has on its first track the voice of a 100 year old women who was a noted spiritualist. After the recording she died. It was noted in the cover that it was her dream to have her voice immortalized before her death, well with this release it has come to pass. The music as stated before spans all cultures, and it is a type of music that relaxes as well as opens your soul and allows you to touch... Read review

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Advantages: Heavy AND progressive
Disadvantages: Still fairly inaccessible

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Advantages: Quite unlike anything you have heard
Disadvantages: Will drive you mad wondering who he sounds like

...It is rare indeed these days to find an artist who doesn't fit into one of the currently trendy boxes, Duke Special is one of these. Should we put him in the singer songwriter box or the piano harmonies box? Lets label him "other" for now. Duke Special AKA Peter Wilson hails from Belfast and cites some varied influences on his music including Rufus Wainwright, Andy Kaufman, Vaudeville and Elliott Smith to name a few. Songs from the deep forest is Special's second album after May 2005 "Adventures in Gramophone - which was itself an amalgamation of two earlier EPs. The two albums share a number of tracks in common, namely "freewheel", "wake up scarlett" and "last night I nearly died" The first Duke song I heard was "freewheel" and I was captivated it it had been a long time since I had heard something different and it piqued my... Read review

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