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Smokey vocals over a deeply grooving guitar. Stories and melodies that keep speaking to you long after the CD has stopped playing. It's like Joni Mitchell got together with Tom Jobim and decided to spend a month in Cuba.
Bärtsch calls the music “Zen-funk,” but a more useful description is perhaps ”visceral minimalism.” Bärtsch subscribes to minimalism's launch mission to explore the Einsteinian deep space of music-as-math, shuffling and stacking a deck of pre-composed melodic modules and intricately interlocking rhythms, but humanises the astro science with earthy funk-inspired bass ostinatos and kick-ass drums.
Global Rhythm (Publication) (p.49) - "Global grooves, mercurial melodies, plucky polyrhythms and hypnotic happenings abound on this impressive release..."