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The standard-issue vocal trance of Fragma is well sung and well constructed, but the group's debut, Embrace, runs out of ideas way too fast. Lyrics that make the Vengaboys sound like Dylan are the big problem. "Embrace Me" is a fair single, and the almost quirky "Why" holds some promise before vocalist Damae comes in cooing the uninspired lyrics. Ramon Zenker (possibly the best name in trance) knows how to layer the music, but his limited attention to hooks with any depth points more toward a career scoring video games. This breathy-diva-with-a-slight-sly-sexuality style has diminishing returns in 2003, and Traci Lords beat Fragma to the punch way back in 1995 with her 1000 Fires album. It's uplifting enough, and Damae and Zenker have definite talent and energy. Even if music aimed at the dancefloor isn't always the most deep, it at least needs something to set it apart. Embrace requires you to supply the verve and panache. [The U.S. version differs from the German by changing the running order, dropping a few songs, and adding the videos for "Embrace Me" and "Time and Time Again."] ~ David Jeffries
Fragma includes: Damae (vocals); Joern Friese (background vocals).
Producers: Ramon Zenker, Dirk Duderstadt, Marco Duderstadt.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Purchase Embrace CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | American Music Club Everclear CD (1991)
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EVERCLEAR, AMC's finest hour and one the '90s' most powerful albums, is simultaneously lush and searing, heartache and despair borne out in elegant arrangements that combine fragile prettiness and soul-baring howls of pain. Multi-instrumentalist Bruce Kaphan rose to the occasion of his production debut. The canyons of reverb on the instruments are strangely appropriate, highlighting the almost decadent, tragically beautiful feel of the songs. Keyboards, pedal steel, and acoustic guitars drift like abandoned ships swirling around in a colorfully tempestuous sea full of unknown nautical demons. Guitarist Vudi contributes some of the most artful, non-traditional sounds ever concocted by a "rock" axeman.
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| | Trembling Blue Stars Last Holy Writer CD (2007) (Import) United Kingdom
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Truth be told, the Trembling Blue Stars routine was getting kind of stale by the release of Seven Autumn Flowers in 2004. With that album they crossed the line that divides reliable and predictable; no longer did the morose lyrics, melancholy vocals, minor chords and cheesy synths make a positive impression. Luckily for fans of the band, The Last Holy Writer is a comeback of sorts, certainly an improvement, and maybe even one of their finest records. How did they do it? It's hard to say because on the surface it seems like not much has changed sound or mood-wise. There's still a preponderance of downbeat lyrics and Bob Wratten hasn't suddenly traded in his mope for a smile, no fear of that anytime soon. The building blocks of their sound are mostly the same too. What makes a difference here is a boost in the overall energy level from unrelenting gloom to mostly sad, a slightly expanded sonic palette that makes room for field recordings and a wider range of drum sounds, and most importantly, some really good songs. Chief among them are the Beth Arzy-sung "Idyllwild" which, much like Helen Reddy on the last album, fairly bursts out of the speakers like sun through the clouds, "Darker, Colder, Slower," which has the kind dramatic shifts in dynamics and tone TBS Records need more of, the laid-back near-country rocker "The Tenth of Always," and the almost happy sounding "Say Goodbye to the Sea" (of course the words are devastatingly sad, but the drum program and the bells will have you smiling ...
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CD reissue of two long out-of-print 2005 EPs from the Savannah-based Metal outfit, now combined together on one disc. Both have been remixed and remastered and compiled with reworked art and a foil stamped, custom digipak package .This collection features everything from chunky ...
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Initial packaging of REGGAE GOLD 2000 comes with a limited edition, continuous in-the-mix bonus CD compiled and mixed by Adonai.
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In the late 60s and early '70s, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett played a vibrant, country-tinged blues-rock that also owed a heavy debt to gritty Memphis R&B (it is no coincidence that their first album was released on Stax Records). And while their singing and playing were consistently top-notch, their profile was not weakened by their association with Eric Clapton, who toured with them ...
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