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Now I enjoy most of the songs. The CD it's self takes a little to grow on you but it did for me. It's something new. This is some good chill music. I fell in love with a few songs when I first listened to the CD for the first time.
It's definitely a chill album that can be played in a relax setting wether alone or with company. I believe that music has the power to break barriers. If you are open to something new, you won't be dissapointed in this CD. One of my favorites are Angels (Featuring Nora Jones)and Purple Elephants. This is one cd that will allow the listener to free their minds and experience music at its best. The sounds range from jazz, deep house, tribal,(to name a few).
Great for room ambient that wont put you to sleep, (Driftin') If you could hear knowledge this is what it would sound like, if you could hear culture this is what it would sound like.Only problem, it is way too short One of my favorite albums to spin at chill parties. Wax Poetic puts the soul back into your playlist. Sitting in a smoke filled jazz club (changes) with none of this SpokenWord rambling on and on, think B000005AYM with less vocal and soothing waxplay and funky ass beats.
It is one of my 'all time favorite' cds and deserves to be much better known. Like many 'one-off' recordings it is uneven in parts, but the star track, 'Angels Falling Through My Head' is enough to transport one through the Ottoman Harem and the Aya Sofia church on wings of fire, right across the Bosphorus and the Atlantic in a swoop. Buy it, and you'll forget all about laser hair removal.Molly McAnailly Burke, music journo. Many people have a hard time believing it (unless they've been there), but Istanbul is one of the hippest cities on earth, on par with NYC and maybe even better, and this the recording that proves it. The DoubleMoon folks who originally recorded it (it was one of this young team's first projects) did so basically 'over a few days' of intense work in some bitsy studio, thanks to the great young Turkish saxophonist Ilhan Ershahin, who holds this recording together, but in an unusually subtle way, and with specially chosen NYC artists.I am personally aware of the difficult time they had pushing it through the Atlantic label, which was founded by some Turkish jazz fans of the 50's/60's.
There is a jazzy downtempo feel to the CD that makes you want to open the windows and light up ;) Front to back it's a chilled out CD, with well programmed beats and chill live instruments, with the occasional scratch and electronic production element. The CD delves into skittish Drum and Bass programmed with live drum sounds, quasi MC spoken word on several tracks and laid back, jazzy breaks throughout. Recomended. What got the name wax poetic into my head was the second track, which I had on my computer as MP3. Norah Jones' voice is beautiful, and this is probably the most accessable track on the CD, with a beautiful vocal.
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