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Cracking Celtic Dance!
Review of Attention All Personnel - Croft No. Five by hukerjohn

Advantages: Brings a whole new meaning to Scottish music!
Disadvantages: Poorly Produced

Croft no Five are an exceptional band of six talented highland musicians! They bring a completely different edge to modern Scottish folk music by moving away from the traditional three piece set up of acordian, fiddle and drummer by introducing the electric guitar and bass with whistles and samples galore! The band are as follows, Adam Sutherland is on fiddle and plays brilliantly - instilling the celtic routes of the music. John Somerville plays ...
...you could ask for with brilliant harmonising with fiddle and whistles but still with room to solo and lay a new line. Misha Somerville is on the whistles and is outstanding. Personally, i think of a whistle as being quite a boring instrument but some of the whistle playing on this cd is quite exceptional and completes the sound of Scotland perfectly. Somharie MacDonald plays the electric bass brilliantly, the funky bass lines make this band a cut ... Read review

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17.03.2006
Joćo Gilberto - White Album (1973)
Review of Joao Gilberto - Joao Gilberto by Morellli

Advantages: composition, vocals
Disadvantages: none

Anybody can recognize "The Girl From Ipanema", it's a classic. But where did it come from? Where did Bossa Nova spread its roots? Pianist Tom Jobim is credited for the composition of most of the classic Bossa Nova standards, but is was Joćo Gilberto who took these standards, and interpreted on the guitar what we now identify as Bossa Nova. By harmonizing the chords on the guitar with the traditional Brazilian Samba rhythm, Gilberto evolved Jobims' ...
...virtuous, but what really captures me is his voice. He sings with a "blown" quality as if he is blowing air from his gut, which produces an intimate close-to-the-microphone sound. It's possible to hear his lips smacking dryly during the pronounciation of certain words, and he has an excellent vocal amplitude, using mostly low-pitched but well chosen notes. This album is fun to compare to his other work, as over the years his performances have become ... Read review

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04.10.2008
An Album for Meditation
Review of Incantation - Tim Wheater by newbee123

Advantages: Very spiritual atmosphere with perfect vocals, chorus and flute.
Disadvantages: Track 7 which feel odd to the others

...in flute solo. Incantation is voted as a best new age album of 1999 in New Age Voice Magazine. "Incantation is an exploration of my inner journey to a place of open-heart