Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Aral Title: Aral Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Higher Octave Original Release Date: 9/26/2000 Release Date: 9/26/2000 Genres: International Music, New Age, Pop Styles: North America, Meditation, Euro Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 724384985820, 0724384985851, 724384985851, 724384985820 |
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"Aral" is violinist Catherine Lara and that facile name reversal is a good reflection of the music inside her debut album. Produced by Eric Mocquet of Deep Forest, it shares his penchant for global pillaging and upbeat gro... more » |
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Amazon.com "Aral" is violinist Catherine Lara and that facile name reversal is a good reflection of the music inside her debut album. Produced by Eric Mocquet of Deep Forest, it shares his penchant for global pillaging and upbeat grooves. They've packaged it all together on Aral, with sampled voices and ethnic instrumental accents emerging out of the mix, commenting on Lara's violin melodies. She's a fiery player, coming out of the Jean-Luc Ponty tradition, and much of this music veers closer to jazz-fusion music than you might suspect. Lara and Mocquet bring some interesting touches, like the accordion breakdown on the track "Aral" and the electro-Celtic grooves and synthesizer scribbles of "Gypsy Tears." Aurally lush with a spontaneous violin sound that enlivens the disc, the cut-and-paste electronica formulas employed by Mocquet nevertheless quickly wear thin. --John Diliberto Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsAral Peter Cranny | Ireland | 10/04/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "The form and sound of this latest release from Catherine Lara is heavily influenced by the fact that Eric Mouquet of the group Deep Forest co-wrote most of the tracks and the musicians involved in it's making are largely those responsible for the Deep Forest Live CD "Made in Japan". By any standards Aral is a beautiful album. Largely instrumental, it is a layered mix of acoustic instruments woven into some familiar Deep Forest keyboard sounds all fronted by the crystal clear violin playing of Catherine Lara. Where there are vocals, they compliment the melody wonderfully. The CD's name "Aral", apart from being "Lara" backwards is also the name of a sea in Kazakhstan that is probably the world's worst ecological disaster area. As you would expect then, there is an eastern/arabic feel to some of the tracks, although there are also classical influences and even an Irish touch where one of the pieces is opened with some very fine uileann piping. With all these fantastic sounds it's very hard to pin down just where "Aral" belongs other than at the top of your "must buy" list."
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