Moai

Format: import

PartNumber: MFR657036300125#VG

Release Date: 13-07-1999

Details: Product Description On her debut album Moai, Sweden's Monica Ramos combines the classic beauty of the harp with ambient textures and contemporary percussion. The album's arrangements modernize the harp and soften the edges of technology with reflective and subtly powerful results. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide Amazon.ca Moai, so named for the enormous stone sculptures on Easter Island, a Pacific isle of harpist Monica Ramos's native Chile, is a heady mix of electro-acoustic genre-busting compositions written, arranged, and produced by Per Andreason. The classically trained Ramos and her deft fingering are unexpectedly married with thick synthesized dance grooves, chunky beats, her brother Alvaro Covarrubias's elegant classical guitar, and melodic violin harmonies. The result is highly unusual, graceful, and soothingly funky. On some tracks, such as the five-minute "Deep Silence," tinkling synthesizer and heavy beats break into Ramos's sultry whispered Spanish, with the pacing sped up and slowed as the harp dictates. "Sonic Beat," a stunning example of the harp's versatility, is perhaps the emotional core of Moai as it bursts forth and fractures like a wave on an unfamiliar shore. --Paige La Grone

UPC: 657036300125

EAN: 0657036300125

Model: MFR657036300125#VG

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood