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Release Date: 18-11-2004
Label: Intentcity
Catalog Number: ICCD80008
Barcode: 671468000828
Musical Style: Chill Out & Lounge
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eastern Girl | 7 | Pujari Vision |
| 2 | River Of Souls | 8 | Waterdance |
| 3 | Tantra | 9 | Brideg To Manaslu |
| 4 | Song for the Mountain | 10 | Tantra II |
| 5 | August Moon | 11 | A Child's Prayer |
| 6 | Snow Palace | ||
Description:
Producer-musicians Jimmy Waldo and D. Kendall Jones travelled to Kathmandu to record the raw sample material for this trip-hop collage of Nepali singing, street chat, and instrumental performances. Recalling similar experiments like those of Deep Forest, Loop Guru, Transglobal Underground, and others, Waterbone's mosaic is pieced together over surging dance beats, albeit with more breath than straight house or techno grooves, and processed through shiny reverbs and cloudburst echoes. The cool 'Eastern Girl' fits Tibetan bells into a Tangerine Dream-style rhythm pattern, while 'Tantra' undulates to Nepali monk group chants, Euro-pop synthesizer melodies, and the charming voice of Lobsang, a Kathmandu girl, whose quarter-tone inflections soar over Waterbone's relentless house beat. Ethno-techno with a tuneful flair.
