Search - Various Live Recordings :: The Sounds Of The Aborigine - Music From The Austrailian Bush

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Example: Mark Twain | optional | 12/09/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This is a peculiar album. The liner notes are vague and grossly innacurate, and there is no indication of when, where or how the CD was recorded, or who the performers are.
The music itself is enjoyable, though quite definitely faked to at least some degree. (For example: track 4 was supposedly recorded by the ocean, and indeed, features the background sounds of seagulls and the tide. These sounds, however, abruptly cut out at one point while the rest of the music continues, and then just as abruptly start back in, clearly betraying the fact that they were added in later.)
The production value isn't great: the didjeridoos have sort of a muffled sound, which I think is due in part to too much reverb (also faked in-studio, no doubt).
But even so, the songs are pleasant, and SOMEBODY must have actually played the didjeridoos and percussion instruments, and done a nice job of it, too. I do enjoy the album, I just find its origins and production suspect."