09-10-2017, 08:53
Dancing with the Lion – Andreas Vollenweider. A great way to start a week! This sounds like a celebration, right from the word go – exciting – not an adjective usually reserved for new age music. Then again, he’s venturing far more into the poposphere here, aided and abetted by a whole lot of Latin, oriental, eastern and other exotica, not least of which, some very fab guitar work by Janne Schaffer (session guitarist for ABBA and others, and who incidentally made a solo album with ALL the Porcaro brothers and their father, which I’m going to have to look up now, lol!) and to my surprise David Lindley on pedal steel guitar and bağlama. It shouldn’t really be a surprise, I ought to know by now that DL pops up in the most unexpected of places! And I’m posting in this thread because IMHO, there are a number of rock elements on the album – new age rock?! All instrumental with a couple of choral type vocals thrown in now and then …
“Dance of the Masks” …
“Dance of the Masks” …
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