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 Soul Ascendants Variations 1 x CD Nuphonic |
Today I want to introduce you to the goose bump experience.
It is as if our brain communicates musical satisfaction to the body. Sometimes, this can lead to foot tapping, an urge
to dance and only seldom it is the goose bump experience. We believe its the highest form of satisfaction and it only
rarely happens. It happened to me for some early House of 909 tracks, a few Apollo tracks, especially "Incidental Harmony"
by Global Communications or some special funk releases like "You me and he" from Mtume or Lillo Thomas and "Your love's got
a hold on me". When listening to the music, suddenly, goose bumps appear from intensity of satisfaction. You know by then
you've discovered a record that touches you emotionally and usually (well, hopefully for you), this is the best music you'll
always carry with you. Today, I had another goose bump experience with the Soul
Ascendants and the Variations album. It was a pleasure to find artists that can add something to nowadays mainstream oldskool
influenced house tracks. Soul Ascendants add an abundance of horn and string section to their music, reflecting dynamic
mid-seventies sounds. This music is almost the extreme cocktail of everything nice in the seventies. The melodies reflect a
jazzfunk ingredient, the basslines are like the wildest Brass Construction jams, the horns and strings are more abundant and
vivid than the Love Unlimited Orchestra, the trumpets deeper than any trumpet section ever played by Tom Browne. And on top
of this is a subtle clean nineties touch. This is not the average selection of dancefloor stompers, but music that
will be played only in the elitarist underground clubs for people who understand and live into their deepest spirit the essence
of houze. We can highly recommend a warm up by the "Tribute" track with its superb strings, driving latin drums and wild
pitched keyboards before getting into full action with Pachacuti or Celebrate, both irresistable well orchestrated jams.
The climax is perhaps the apotheosis of this album : "Moonrise", an over 8 minutes nice groovin' funky jam and driving horn section.
On the midtempo side, there are the nice and well worked out "In Your Eyes", "Safe is the place". Together with Crazy Penis and the new Glenn Underground album, this is the best music we have heard so far in 1999. Highly Freestyle recommended! ez jun/99 |
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