Acoustic Alchemy - The New Edge (1993)

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Artist: Acoustic Alchemy
Title: The New Edge
Year Of Release: 1993
Label: GRP Records
Genre: Smooth Jazz
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 48:02 min
Total Size: 282 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Oceans Apart [05:39]
02. The Notting Hill Two-Step [03:52]
03. Slow Ride Home [04:13]
04. Cool As A Rule [03:49]
05. Santa Cafe [04:27]
06. Arc En Ciel [03:22]
07. London Skyline [06:06]
08. The Liaison [05:18]
09. Until Always [04:54]
10. Rive Gauche [03:09]
11. Act Of Innocence [03:10]

Personnel:

Nick Webb (guitar, 12-string guitar, steel guitar, nylon-string guitar, sitar);
Greg Carmichael (guitar, steel guitar, nylon-string guitar);
Sara Loewenthal, Gunnar Plumer, Chris Laurence (double bass);
Dave Pomeroy , Patrick Bettison (bass guitar);
Levine Andrade, Andrew Brown, Garfield Jackson (violin, viola);
Maciej Rakowski, Jim McCleod, Pauline Lowbury, Konstantin Toinaov, Rita Manning, Cathy Thompson (violin);
John Anderson (oboe, English horn);
Derrick James (saxophone);
Terry Disley (accordion, keyboards);
Rainer Bruninghaus (keyboards);
Dan Tomlinson (drums);
Sam Baccho (percussion);
Mario Argandona (vocals, drums, hand claps, percussion);
Jerry Douglas (dobro);
Caroline Dearnley, Tony Pleeth, Caroline Dale, Anthony Pleeth (cello);
Glen Keiles (programming).

Cynics might roll their eyes at the album's title -- there is nothing at all edgy about this duo's buffed-to-a-high-gloss music -- but The New Edge is actually one of Acoustic Alchemy's most entertaining releases. There's a playfulness to these tunes, like the puckish electronic drums on the flamenco-tinged and downright catchy "Notting Hill Two-Step" and the tongue-in-cheek boulevardier pretensions of the closing "Rive Gauche," that suggests a pair of sharp wits behind the well-packaged sheen of this music. The songs are a consistently memorable lot this time out, with a much higher than usual ratio of interesting melodies to snoozy new age mush, and the production, for once, is not so Velveeta-smooth that the record actually becomes hard to listen to. Indeed, songs like the genuinely lovely "Arc-En-Ciel" and "London Skyline" are among the duo's best ever. If you're only going to get one Acoustic Alchemy album, this is the one to get. ~ Stewart Mason

Acoustic Alchemy - The New Edge.rar - 282.8 MB