Vas - Feast of Silence
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Artist: VasEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Music Label: Narada
Soundtracks:
- Amrita (Churning The Sea Of Milk)
- In Our Faith
- Mandara
- Izgrejala
- Moksha
- The Reaper And The Flowers
- Bardo
- Feast Of Silence
- Kali Basa
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Free Music Review: Dreamy and surreal
Hit: 4 Stars
I found Vas thanks to Amazon's penchant for suggesting based on other purchases, and am I glad! I was hunting for music to use in belly-dance class either for routines or warm-up. I had just ordered Greg Ellis' "Kala Rupa", having fallen in love with the copy my teacher used in class, and got a couple Vas suggestions. Impulsively I bought two and have been very happy, in class and in the car. The music is satisfyingly exotic to an ear trained in American music, yet vivid and accessible as well. 'Feast of Silence' is stunning, moody and alternately soothing and invigorating. Well worth the impulse!
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In their early days, Vas was often compared to Lisa Gerrard and Dead Can Dance, but they transcended that comparison long ago. Their sound is forged deep in Middle Eastern and Indian percussion with singer Azam Ali extolling a supralingua style of singing that morphs from ecstatic hieroglyphics to Bulgarian choirs. Born in Iran and raised in India, Ali's pristine voice is steeped in the traditions of those countries. Greg Ellis surrounds her with a global percussion orchestra of the imagination, mixing udu drums, frame drums, mridangam, dumbeks, and just about anything else from his global groove storeroom to create the throbbing rhythmic undertow of their music. His own "Moksha" for percussion, cellos, and bass is an epic, symphonic journey. Azam Ali sings in English for the first time on Feast of Silence, setting Longfellow's "The Reaper and the Flowers" and her own title track. "Feast of Silence" is a veiled reference to her personal travails of the last four years including the death of her mother, her first trip back to Iran since she was a child, and the demise of her personal relationship with Ellis. Despite the personal fractures in the vessel of Vas, Feast of Silence remains as cohesive and powerful as their three previous CDs. --John DilibertoNew Age Music CDs
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