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Eastern essences drift upon the flutes and strings of
Kitaro's meditative beauty, "Wave of Sand".
There's something so seductive about Spanish guitar sounds and Luis Villegas' "New Moon" is no exception with its softly strummed warmth backed by light percussion. The squeaky-clean funk-lite of
"Midnight Rendezvous" by Steve Reid will sound like cheesy glop to some ears, and a cool groove to others.
So-pretty-they-hurt notelets twinkle from Dave Eggar's solo piano piece, "Sorrow's Call" (3:58). Nawang Khechog's "Presence" (a far cry from a faux-jazz piece which precedes it) radiates depth of culture and ancient traditions on its simple strands of flute drones and spare trills.
The venerable Kitaro returns with the bold, colorful strokes of "Fiesta" (7:42), a more-stylized panorama of musical heritage (which liberally reuses its main themes).
Unusually experimental textures lead into
"Harmonic Convergence" by Harleigh Cole, which then shifts into a brightly boppy mode, demonstrating a too-clean-cut lounginess which some (me, for instance) might find cloying. Another Oriental expanse,
"Caravansary" swirls on Yu-Xiao Guang's bittersweetly intertwining string passages which are occasionally swept by synthetic breezes.
Other contributors include Benedetti & Svoboda, Ray Obiedo, Sapphron Obois and Shinji.
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