Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors – Jhoom
Ambient-Tribal is what Gabrielle calls this music. It sounds like Planet Drum to me which is some of my favorite music of all times. Funny thing, Sanga of the Valley the percussionist on this has played with Planet Drum. Tony Levin is my hands down favorite bass player (and stick player) of all times. GabrielleRoth and her husband Robert Ansell have assembled, written produced an amazing group of musicians. This is truly trippy and rhythmic music. It puts me in a trance which some people will tell you is not too hard. Allison Cornell (Viola, Vocals) and Chloe Goodchild (Vocals) come and go on this release as Tony and Sanga build a hypnotic wall of grooves.There is a host of other musicians that add to the rhythms and frost the cake so to speak with beauty and skill.
Speaking Curves
A lilting percussion groove with Tony Levin swooping and diving like a flying hippo accompanied by murky sounds sliding into Allison’s haunting viola melody. It sort of sounds like what would happen if Planet Drum smashed into King Crimson. Listening to this I feel myself swaying and my body relaxing. Wonderful.
Road Rock-It
Tony’s liquid bass anchors this almost house style jam with a huge bass drum making your body throb. Exotic sounding percussion appears and drives things even more over the edge. This is outer space afro funk for sure. My dog and I are dancing around the room. I need to hear this live so badly.
Jhoom
I cranked the hell out of this and it put me in a trance. I feel this track in all parts of my body and deep in my soul. It just slams and pulses in a most amazing. When the voices come in, I feel like I have gone back in time to before man was on earth and the only sounds that existed were the sounds of the earth being created. no. I am not on drugs. My imagination just got a little carried away. I adore this song.
Skinny Lights & Fat Beats
This track is so mesmerizing, hypnotic and so fat. The keyboard that comes in a quarter of the way in almost takes me out of the mood. I love the contrast between the huge bass drum/bass bottom and the hand percussion that floats over top. Little percussion comes and goes. There is a scraping percussion thing dueling with what sounds like a Guiro. I could hear Jon Hassell’s snakey trumpet oozing over the top of this. What a great idea. You guys should call him.
On The Other Side Of Here
I love the cinematic feel of this track. The vocals are absolutely beautiful. The Viola sends chills up my spine. I wish I had written this. It is a perfect track for the films that the Spiritual Cinema Circle puts out. Eerie stuff.
I really love these tracks. I am going to check out Gabrielle’s other releases. You should too.
Keith Kehrer
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