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A CHANGE OF HEART

Golden Avatar

 

Jazz Rock/Fusion

3.27 | 22 ratings

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Brendan
4 stars Golden Avatar is basiaclly a band built around the vision of Hindu Michael Cassidy. Cassidy writes all the music and lyrics. The band has feet in several genre's, and they are generally quite a versatile band. You probably could brand them symphonic folk/prog/pop but they seem just at home tackiling funk/disco. Perhaps they aren't really progressive but are too original to place anywhere else.

Their strengths lie particularly in the arrangements. If you look at all the instruments listed in the credits section, at one point or another during the album you will really notice the presence of these instruments. They keep rotating the arrangements, giving each instrument a thourough work-out. Somtimes when a band features many instruments on an album, there is usually a focus on the main ones (organ, guitar, synths) and the less common instruments are more or less a brief novelty that don't really add to the music. Not so here. Their aim musically is to create ethereal music, presumably to complement the spiritually heavy lyrics. The melodies are strong, the vocal harmonies rich, and the music is great!

They have another album (pastimes), that is good too, but not as good as this one.

Brendan | 4/5 |

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