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Music : Elysium for the Brave
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Elysium for the Brave by: Azam Ali List Price: $16.98 CD-Charts Price: $11.97 You Save: $5.01 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0657036113022 Label: Six Degrees Manufacturer: Six Degrees Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Six Degrees Release Date: July 25, 2006 Studio: Six Degrees Sales Rank: 7853 MPN: 361130 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: "Elysium For The Brave", Azam's second solo album, signals a new turn in her musical evolution. The album, her most ambitious work to date, brings together musicians from varied musical backgrounds performing in diverse permutations. The result is a highly coherent body of work that seamlessly weaves together all of Azam's cultural and musical influences into a haunting tapestry of atmospheric rock, electronic, and global sounds. Singing predominantly in English for the first time, the songs are based on lyrics written by Azam herself and reveal a poetic lyricism heard only in glimpses in her previous work. Amazon.com: For this, her second solo album, Azam Ali, lead vocalist of Vas and Niyaz, takes her patented polycultural blend of ancient and contemporary influences even farther beyond the stratosphere. That she is now a veteran of numerous film scores, including Children of Dune, Earthsea, and Matrix Revolutions, perhaps explains her present more cinematic direction. Born in Iran, reared in India and the US, and gifted with a voice of improbable tonal breadth, flexibility, and beauty, she is backed by collaborators like Trey Gunn (King Crimson), Chris Venna (Nine Inch Nails), Turkish DJ/composer Mercan Dede, the Japanese ensemble Kodo, and Grateful Dead drummer/world percussion enthusiast Mickey Hart. One of the more interesting conundrums inherent in Ali's work is that no matter how much electronic technology she employs, her immersion in her heritage unfailingly comes across loud and clear. Whether she is singing in English, which predominates on these sessions, Farsi, or another language, a prayerful sensuality informs every note. It's as though a sexy Tanagra temple figurine or silk-clad court lady from an antique parchment were to suddenly turn her lovely head and step daintily into the modern world, unfurling precisely the kind of voice one expected but never could have imagined. --Christina Roden Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Exotic and TrancelikeMy husband likes this cd very much. His choice when drifting off to sleep. Rating: - Sensuous to say the leastWhat can I say other than it's the most sensuous CD this side of an "X" rating. Rating:  - Love her Voice.A very relaxing cd. She has a great voice and great lyrics. If you like this one, also check out her band Vas. Rating: - Mystical journey into the desertAzam Ali is an amazing New Age diva. She's more soulful than Enya, and her lyrics show a depth and mysticism not often found in relaxing New Age music. It's also not surprising that Azam Ali contributed the electrifying "Inama Nushif" to the "Children of Dune" soundtrack. The opening track,"Endless Reverie",evokes vast desert spaces. It seduces the listener into a spiritual journey. "Spring Arrives" is a musical oasis. "Abode" sounds ancient and modern at once,in which Azam Ali sings of longing for her homeland of Iran. "Forty One Ways" has an urgency driving it forward, with its haunting opening "forty one ways to die,one strong will to live. " "The Tryst" is at once spiritual and erotic; Azam Ali sings of her own sin&being unworthy ... Read More: Rating: - World music - folk rock from the middle eastIf you are looking for music similar to "Dead can dance" with real words this album is it, but the more traditional instrumented tracks are more moving. |
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