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AMAZING SOUNDS No.137 / April 15, 2004
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CONTENTS:

REVIEWS:
EMILY BURRIDGE: "FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAND" White Horse World Music
EMILY BURRIDGE: "EARTH SONGS" White Horse World Music
RICHARD PINHAS: "TRANSITION" Cuneiform Records
JIM PIETKIVITCH: "INNER WORLDS" Electrofine Music
Sampler: "FATELESS FLOWS COLLECTIVE VOL.01"
GNOMUSY: "ETHEREALITY" Non Profit Music

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REVIEWS:

EMILY BURRIDGE:
"FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAND"
White Horse World Music
The strength arising fom the music by Emily Burridge clearly shows her
fascinating artistic personality. Her voyages and contacts with the native
cultures of South America have made her into a woman who is concerned with
the cultural preservation of minorities, and have provided her with an
unusual artistic background. In her compositions, Emily is capable of
gathering, in a truly spontaneous way, elements derived from her Classical
upbringing, together with those coming from the ethnic musics she has lived
with. This naturality makes her music, brimming with exquisite melodies,
connect at once with the listener, as it combines instrumental passages
with other sung ones, often by herself. Her warm, sensual vocals enhance
the sentimental character of quite an amount of her music, as much as her
performance with the cello and the keyboards does. When listening to the
album, it is obvious that Emily has not intended to create a work within a
given genre, or aimed at a certain sector of the audience. The stylistic
elements her music contains are not simple ingredients chosen so as to get
a given result. To her, they have had a personal transcendence in some
given moment of her life, and this is thus reflected in her album. An
accomplished cello performer, among other things, she is one of the few
people who have the rare ability to improvise with this instrument.
Furthermore, Emily has also worked in soundtracks, and has likewise been
keeping an intense activity with respect to concerts. She usually
collaborates with renowned artists in the alternative musics, such as for
example Gandalf, who plays in this album, together with other musicians.
JORGE MUNNSHE

http://www.emilyburridge.com

EMILY BURRIDGE:
"EARTH SONGS"
White Horse World Music
The re-release of this album, originally released in 1994 by an
independent German label, will allow those who could not get it then, to
acquire a magnificient album of adventure, dreamy music. The peculiar style
Emily displays is nourished with a symphonism of a Classical flavour,
especially flowing from her mastery as a cello performer, as well as from
elements found in the ethnic musics of South America, and most
specifically, from Brazil. This outline is complemented with a careful
mise-en-scene, wealthy in orchestrations, where Emily is accompanied by
other artists. She herself shows her wide range as a performer, besides her
art as a composer, when playing the cello and the synthesizers, as well as
singing. As she advances in her musical vocation without paying attention
to conventionalisms, this woman has succeeded in shaping a very personal,
direct style, which attracts the attention of the listener very easily indeed.
JORGE MUNNSHE

http://www.emilyburridge.com

RICHARD PINHAS:
"TRANSITION"
Cuneiform Records
The music that Richard Pinhas offers us in this album has all the elements
needed to awaken the maximum interest among the followers of Ambient,
Psichedelia and Space Rock. Kaleidoscopic atmospheres, ghostly textures,
and a personal focus, free from ties, which provides the music with a great
freshness, these are the main assets of "Transition". Richard Pinhas proves
his talent to shape universes of sound brimming with imagination yet once
again.
EDGAR KOGLER

http://www.cuneiformrecords.com

JIM PIETKIVITCH:
"INNER WORLDS"
Electrofine Music
The music made by Jim Pietkivitch reflects the intense emotions that
activaty his artistic creativity. With an approach more or less connected
to New Instrumental Music as well as Space Music, the album offers us an
excellent sample of the work by this artist, who has a remarkable talent to
create melodies of a great beauty. A very good choice for those listeners
who enjoy a melodic symphonism with space shades.
EDGAR KOGLER

http://www.electrofine.com

Sampler:
"FATELESS FLOWS COLLECTIVE VOL.01"
The Fateless Flows is an ensemble of American artists from the Los Angeles
area who choose to deal with innovation and experimentation within Pop and
Techno. Starting from these as well as other associated trends, they create
fresh, spontaneous pieces. The contents of the CD is as follows: Niture:
"Itsgo". Appogee: "This Moment". Surface 10: "Fall in Line". Mr. Soon:
"Tusayan". Cavestar: "Arms Wide Open". Luxury Tax: "Van Conversion".
Appogee: "Kddr". Luxury Tax: "Papa New Guinea Pig". Niture: "Pseudopod
Interim". ConstantFlux: "Mercury Cocktail". Indicia: "It's Coming Around".
ConstantFlux: "Sonic Alchemy". Surface 10: "Devices Remix". Indicia:
"Runaway". Subversive Element: "Groove City". Cavestar: "Birth of Light".
Mr. Soon: "Fast Yellow Smiley".
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

http://www.fatelessflows.com

GNOMUSY:
"ETHEREALITY"
Non Profit Music
This album displays the unmistakable traits of an artist who creates his
compositions with entire freedom, without allowing himself to get
influenced by ephemeral trends of commercial impositions. The music is
structured around elements typical of New Instrumental Music and Synth-Pop,
with adequate Celtic brush strokes as well as shades of electronic
symphonism, which the composer arranges and combines in imaginative ways.
As a whole, "Ethereality" is a work that will appeal to those who enjoy
good music within the styles here mentioned. The CD is complemented with a
track of data that includes MP3s and PDFs.
VIRGINIA TAMAYO

http://www.nonprofitmusic.org

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