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katja_r | 05/14/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I am mesmerised by this CD from EKOVA. HEAVEN's DUST is a cauldron of crafty conundrums. The sound is mystically not what it is. Case in point, France has nothing to do with Ireland and neither does "In My Prime", yet, it is everything to do with the ballad told. The bard is a supernal siren chanteuse poising as a human with knowledge of the mysteries of the Orient. It is to my advantage, I suspect, that I have no knowledge of the terrain because it makes a song such as "Sister" sound more foreign. The same can be said of "Todoism", however, that might simply be a twelve-bar blues. Mediteranean guitar melodies and riffs which conjure images of flamenco appear on "Taksim". I sense a childlike discovery of something new as if hearing music for the first time, and yet, it is music I have always heard. My favourite of this collective consciousness is captured in "Venus and One". It seduces me to weightless fantasies. If you are interested in music which derives from Mediteranean and Oriental sources to produce melodies which are sensual and breathless, this CD will interest you."