Play 90 second soundbite of 'Passion (radio edit)' @ 'CD quality'
Taken from Orchid Star's forthcoming debut album 'Birth', 'Passion' sees the coming together of bang-up-to-date electronic music and ethnic rhythms and world vibes - to great effect. Within its genre 'Passion', in all its eight mixes as given here, is quite heavenly and, it has to be said, like a breath of fresh air in an all too often stale music idiom; it cleverly and very successfully combines rhythms and instrumental sounds and nuances from all over the globe, many in the form of what now seems to be referred to as 'live' instruments, the rest made up from sounds from the digital age. It works extremely well!!
Although the over-used term 'dance' has tended to become a very far reaching and all-encompassing descriptive, Orchid Star have brought a glorious and majestic sense of 'oneworldness' to the genre through the introduction of such an array of stunning ethnic, tribal and generally eclectic influences. And, the proud and often guarded 'keepers' of those influences would surely be equally impressed and suitably entertained by what Orchid Star have done here.
'Passion' by Orchid Star is seriously good - probably one of the most unusual and classy sorties into the deepest realms and darkest corners of the modern electronically biased dance idiom that I've ever heard. If 'Passion' is typical, Orchid Star's debut album, 'Birth', thoroughly deserves to achieve success. Excellent!!
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