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Hamidi's voice sings out softly as simultaneously pretty and mysterious
Oracle (6:30) drifts on delicate piano twinkles, throbbing basslines and soft ethnobeats. Wordless crooning swirls between the sparkling sequences of synth and e-drums which percolate and sweep throughout the lush loveliness which is Mystic Roya (featuring OVA's Holmes Ives).
Even with my anti-lyric bias, songs like
You Belong to Me and Goodbye prove alluring because of the seductive dancefloor-ready production and electro-ethereal presentation; in the former, jangling sitar strings blend beautifully with the more-urban rhythms and resonance.
Foreign bodymover Hafiz and lighter
Emshab also present verses, but in whispery native tongues, so the whole word/meaning limitation is evaded in my ears, leaving only the grooving electronic tunes and subdued wails.
Serpentine enchantments await in the downbeat sultriness of Vocalize (2:05). Achingly gorgeous The Real Thing resides in a midtempo swelter of bittersweetness and synth pulsations. Finalé Pilgrimage features
male vocal leads, undulating in unknown speech patterns above a steady ethnodrum section while synth hazes float like smoke from an incense burner.
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