Search - Shai No Shai :: Human Condition

Compelling voice

Isaac M. Mandelberg | USA | 12/12/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I bought this CD about three years ago, listened to it once or twice, but I wasn't listening to a lot of music at the time, so I set it aside (yet still within reach). In the last year or so I've listened to it dozens of times, and I'm still not fatigued.



Olga Helm's voice has a very honest sound, and the orchestration provides excitement at times, and quiet contemplative moods at others.



While I don't love every song on the CD, including the title cut, the whole is something that makes you feel while listening, the sine qua non of good music.



I am very happy that Shai no Shai is working on a new CD. They have a web site under construction at [...]."