Various ‎– East-Westercism (1997)

Various ‎– East-Westercism
Label: Law & Auder
Country: UK
Released: 1997
Style: Drum n Bass, Downtempo, Ambient

   As the title might suggest, this album takes the sound of Eastern music & mates it with all that is modern (and sometimes not so modern) in Western musical culture. The resultant hybrid is a surprisingly fluid, entertaining & fascinating journey through a musical chimera which has been a long time coming to fruition but well worth the wait. None of the overloaded voices which always seem to be pushing the VUs far, far into the red, or the sitar scrambles which remind one more of some somnambulist walking through an unfamiliar shop-full of metal wires. This is quality - no one track stands out as weaker than any other. This is a bona-fide victory of album arrangement by PHIL EARLE & KINGSUK BISWAS. Makes you want to hear more by each artist.              Review by bonnicon.

192 kbps (track 04  is missing from cd2)
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