Search - Frans Bauer :: Samen Met Jou

NASA, listen up!

Kaboom Boy | Oepsterp, Holland | 02/06/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Famous Dutch music critic Iwan Peters has called this album 'the first true music of the 21st century' and it's easy to see why.
Mixing Tibetan goat-chanting with the angst-induced drum rhythms of the Polypenesian Cthulhu-tribe and the dvd scratching of Belgian DvDJ MC Wonka, Bauer comes up with a potent mix of dancefloor struts and hymn-like chill-scapes. Just as matter-of-factly he inserts samples of the heavy breathing of a rutting polar bear and political speeches by the likes of Ghandi and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, while topping it all off with his unique voice - which is a combination of an ululating muezzin and Willie Nelson.
Songs like 'Torrero' and 'Adios Amore' have changed the way people think, live and love all across Western Europe. It's time now for America (The Beautiful) to follow suit and embrace Bauer and his quest for a new musical frontier. To quote Peters once more: 'send Frans Bauer to Mars and have him sing - and there WILL be life on that planet'. Thank you."