Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
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Artist: Kelley PolarEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Music Label: Environ
Soundtracks:
- Cosmological Constrancy
- Here In The Night
- Tyurangalila
- My Beauty in the Moon
- Vocalise (From Here to Polarity)
- Ashamed of Myself
- The Rooms in my House Have Many Parties
- Matter Into Entergy
- Black Hole
- In Time
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Free Music Review: disco goes to heaven
Hit: 5 Stars
This was a true find. It's rare to hear music that has the courage to sound at once spiritual and groovy, romantic and disembodied, melancoly and blissful, goofy and refined, fun and poetic (luckily, it seems to be happening more often these days). Polar's main musical influences are disco and classical music, which he combines in an unlikely and magical mix that has nothing of the cheesiness of similar efforts by other musicians. My personal favorites are "In Time" and "Matter into Energy". It sounds like the work of a beautiful mind...
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Imagine Kraftwerk in a pastoral mood (dressed in pastels rather than primary colors). Or a soft-psych group like the Association or Free Design gone electronic. It would seem that Croatian-born polymath Kelley Polar has done just that. Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens, his full-length debut following a series of 12-inch singles, is the work of a classically trained musician with a disco jones. Best known for his arrangements for Metro Area, Polar combines strings with synths, hand claps, mechanized beats, soft-rock vocals, and the occasional heavenly robot choir ("Cosmological Constancy," "Matter Into Energy"). The end result is more effervescent than the dark-hued title and cover art might suggest. Remember Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out," Yello's "Oh Yeah," or even Can's leftfield dance hit "I Want More"? With production assistance from Morgan Geist (Metro Area, Environ Records), Polar captures some of that playful magic on Love Songs, but without succumbing to nostalgia for a bygone era. In its tastefulness and restraint (Polar's androgynous vocals barely rise above a whisper), the individual tracks aren't necessarily as memorable as they could be, but the album as a whole sure goes down easy. --Kathleen C. FennessyDance & DJ Music CDs
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