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More Pease! More!

Dario Margeli | San Jose, CA United States | 10/14/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This "Album" was released in 1994 and is absolute
gorgeous "song-based" trance-techno album.
Unfortunatelly since mainstream media in the U.S.
automatically bans anything electronic or anything
with a house-dance beat, this album got very unfairly
ignored. It is definitely one of the best albums of
the 90s. Every song has the wonderfull siren-female
voice singer, performing sing-a-long melodies.
It definitly puts me in a trance, while giving me a workout.
Buy this album! You wont regret it! I wish songwriter Ray
Carroll makes more albums as Waterlilies, even if independently
released and they could promote it on the web."

A true undiscovered gem

Jon Rydin | Chicago, IL United States | 07/24/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"One of the best releases of 1994, this musical endeavor deserved much more success than it got.The Waterlillies, consisting of lead vocalist/producer/arranger Sandra Jill Alikas and producer/arranger Ray Carroll, turned in a brilliant, polished performance here. Sandra's vocals do the rare feat of working so well on both soaring, hook driven dance cuts ("Tempted", "Free", "Work it Out") and heart-breaking ballads ("Never Get Enough", "Nolion Doll", "Take My Breath Away"). You can practically feel the ache and yearning in her beautiful voice & lyrics. Toss in a tasty instrumental ("Supersonic") and even end the CD on a superb note, with the haunting a cappella version of the Carpenters' "Close to You", and you have one of the best CD's of the year... perhaps of all time.Defintely a keeper, I would recommend this CD to anyone -- even if they're not fans of the genre."