Balligomingo - Beneath the Surface
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Artist: BalligomingoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-06-11
Music Label: Windham Hill Records
Soundtracks:
- Purify
- Escape
- Falling
- Sweet Allure
- Wild Butterfly
- Beyond
- Privelege
- Heat
- Lost
- Marooned
- Lust
- Being (Ambient Escape)
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Free Music Review: Wow!
Hit: 5 Stars
I guess Balligomingo has been around for a few years, but I was lucky enough to stumble upon them just a year ago through a VA album. I'm really glad I got Balligomingo. It's a great ethereal sound, with some great vocals. It's great for some background music while I'm working, as it's upbeat enough to keep me going at a good pace, but not so much that it makes me feel like I'm slower than the music, if that makes any sense. If you like the genre, chances are you'll love Balligomingo. If you don't like trance, electronica, or ambient music, though, you might not enjoy it so much. Still, there's probably a reason there are 70 5-star reviews at the time of posting this, and less than ten of lower ratings.
Beneath the Surface Poster
Fans of the celestial sounds of Enya and the lush trip-hop beats of Delerium and Enigma will love Balligomingo. Contrary to its Eastern-sounding name, Balligomingo is the baby of one Garrett Schwartz, a keyboardist-programmer who collaborated with a variety of musicians for Beneath The Surface. Though purely a U.S. and Canadian affair, the music does create an ethereal air of mystery and tension not unlike that of Asian underground pioneer Nitin Sawhney's recent Prophesy (though Balligomingo is far less profound). The buoyant, atmospheric tracks of Surface include various female vocalists who extend the songs' allure, a live band treated to sound like sweet computer rhythms, and a 15-piece orchestra. Most of the songs flow together, sustaining the album's dream sequence mood like a long summer rain. Occasionally, the vocals border on teen-pop, but mostly they blend into the foreground, helping to advance Balligomingo's lush world-beat-and-tone poetry muse. --Ken MicallefDance & DJ Music CDs
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