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LAND OF THE BLIND out of Portland, Oregon & San Francisco is a band that creates different musical worlds for eclectic wanderers. "Tribal-Trance" is what they call it but this album weaves a magic carpet ride of Middle-eastern, Tribal, Native, Celtic, ambient rock and ethnic folk that bi-passes genre' and defies catagories. Lead singer Cyoakha's honeyed vocals are poured over the music like mollasses, moving from Kate Bush-like howls to soft dreamy trance vocals & Middle-Eastern/Indian weavings. The entire band supports this movement from strong to dreamy. ORDINARY MAGIC starts off with the Burning Man theme song, TRIBE, a cool anti-consumer native groove and moves right into the song Cyoakha Grace wrote for Julia Butterfly (when she was living in Luna), called CHURCH OF THE HOLY TREES, a dreamy middle-eastern ectopolitical statement. (Blind gives half of all sales of this song to EarthFirst) You can also hear CHURCH in the soundtrack of the new movie about Julia called "TREESIT". You'll still be dancing by the third cut, a wonderful Celtic romp with Cocteau Twins-like vocals called TRUST. The album slows down and drops into dreamy with MARY'S HANDS, and adds an ambient feel in this sweet ballad. MOTHER is an Irish dirge, semi-traditional but with a twist only the Blind can provide. ELIZA is a fun pop song, light, with a great Native American flute powering it out, as well as driving bass. A LITTLE MORE adds a Tom Waitish touch of techno, a mad trash can feel, yet with beautiful vocals. THE WITCHES OF KILKENNY is another Celtic piece but only as the Blind can do it, moving from an Irish tale into a driving bass and flute piece and ending with a group Om into JOURNEY'S END, their semi-cover of a very famous 60's band, something you won't forget as you drift away awash in keys, sitar and mediaeval bass lines, with Cyoakha's vocals dropping in from everywhere. This CD is a journey like no other. If you like Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, Tori Amos, The Doors, Sky Cries Mary, Mouth Music, Dead Can Dance, you will enjoy this cd!