Wonderfully Strange
Felix Schultz | Canton, Ohio United States | 10/08/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"These singers harmonize through mysterious songs about
strange. and ordinary, things--through beautiful female lead singing, with fascinating percussion and
horn background, and bass that is perfect to balance the variety
of harmonies. This is not like Manhattan Transfer, no, it is
more personal, more immediate. The impression is latin and
contemplative, while being no-nonsense and straightforward in
expression. It is a wonderful mix of the familiar and the
unfamiliar, the new and the understandable. And the harmonies--
as I said before, are simply wonderful. The feeling of the music is sweet, and bittersweet, sassy and fulfilling. Naxos has another jazzy CD
in its extensive collection of excellent music."