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Sumatra for your ears

G. S Senko | Media PA | 07/07/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It is funny that Chris Poland is so under the radar. His music is excellent, his tone superb, the band tight and the compositions stellar. This recording is something I have been listening to nearly daily for almost three months. That, is the test for me. Is the musical content rich enough, exciting enough and sweet sounding enough to draw me pleasurably back, again and again? It is!



Obviously, what people refer to as "fusion music" is not for everyone. It is over a lot of folks heads, in that it is a highly personal and esoteric artistic expression. It doesn't get marketed to the masses. To appreciate this sort of music, it helps to have an advanced sense of harmony, an ability for abstraction, an enjoyment of the timbre of electric instuments and a lack of a need to have musical ideas "spoon fed" to you at some slow, familiar pace. But, to the folks who appreciate it, everything else is the "decaf" equivalent, musically. Among the caffinated, Ohm: is to modern electric music what Sumatra is to coffee: rich, well balanced, tasteful and potent.



Highly recommended!"