Album：Worlds Within
Artist：Govinda
Genre：New Age
Style：Ethnic Fusion
Label：Intentcity
Orig Year：2004
Review by Rick Anderson
The multi-instrumentalist who calls himself Govinda was born Shane O'Madden, and his primary instrument is the violin. Under normal circumstances you might expect his music to draw on Celtic traditions, but Worlds Within is actually a dark, slinky exploration of gypsy, Indian, and Middle Eastern textures and modalities, all wrapped up in percolating breakbeats and dubwise production techniques. At times the music threatens to get mushy, but numerous guest vocalists help prevent the proceedings from dissolving into generic electro-worldbeat pablum: Juliana Sheffield contributes gorgeous Elizabeth Fraser-like crooning on "Los Golondrinas," creating something that sounds like a fusion of Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd; "10,000 Years" rolls along nicely on an ethereal funk beat, helped out by dancehall chatting courtesy of an unidentified DJ; on "Something," Kayt Jourdanson lets her cool, laid-back voice be used as raw material to be shredded like silk and wafted along on a Hindustani-inflected modal groove. Very highly recommended.
专辑介绍：
来自美国德克萨斯州首府奥斯丁的乐队Govinda实际上只有一个人，他就是音乐怪才Shane O' Madden他不仅包办全部的音乐创作，还擅长演奏各种乐器。1998年他在首张专辑中，把自己喜爱的古印度及其它亚洲音乐，用Drum & Bass和Trip-hop这些时下流行的电子跳舞节奏作为背景烘托起来，立即在流行音乐界取得了成功。O' Madden于是乘胜追击，延续同一风格在短时间内接连作出多张专辑，使得Govinda这一本来略带临时性质的乐队在乐坛上稳稳地占据了一席之地。
最早是在几年前《音乐天堂》的一期特刊《世界上最动听的歌》里听到的也就是我很喜欢的那首《A Modern Mantra》充满哀怨的印度女声独唱，旋律并不复杂，但悲伤的气氛确始终贯穿其中。而制作音乐的Govinda却将她演唱的特质深化，带进了西方乐器中最常用于表现悲伤的小提琴和大量弦乐。还加入了大量的电子节奏代替了印度的手铃和象脚鼓，节奏紧密的伴奏和声音飘渺低迷的歌曲相互衬映提携，使音乐上升到一个更加强烈的高度。最促进气氛的还是开始的半分钟，几句电话中声音采样夹杂合成器造的效果，猛然间女声进入，异军突起印度异邦的感觉更将一种分崩离析的感觉透露出来，女声在反复，幽怨再增加，直到歌曲结束，悲伤总是叠加上去，而使悲伤者坠落，这首歌的意境却将悲伤进到离异的境界。
发行专辑：
1998-O Earthly Gods
1999-Entwined and entranced
1999-Move Divine
2001-Erotic Rhythms From Earth
2004-Worlds Within
试听曲目：Charming the Serpent
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Tracklist/曲目列表
1. Charming the Serpent
2. City of Peace
3. Electric Gypsy
4. Feel You
5. Love Glitch
6. Something
7. Golondrinas
8. 10,000 Years
9. Inner Membrane
10. Hypnotic [Redubbed]
11. Calm
12. Do I Dream
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