TERRA INCOGNITA

I have only heard this one album by Fit+Limo. This is also first Raga album I listen to. The music is meditative. Mellotron and Chamberlin are used to create a flowing background for monotoniuos vocals, cymbals, tambouras, glockenspiels, indian banjos etc... The overall feeling is somewhat foggy. Probably best enjoyed while incense are burning and with eyes shut. This is as far from rock as we are from alpha centauri but can probably take you there. Actually this would be etno if these people would come from some distant country but this music is from Germany. Folk music there is different :-). I would rather place this music into new wave. For progheads ... no.. Is this bad music? No, only boring.

Eastern influenced psych-folk obscurity. The album includes very peaceful, mellow "bucolic" pieces with an omnipresence of sitar chords. The atmosphere is sometimes melancholic, sometimes sunny but always wonderfully "stoned". "Seraph" is a fragile, beautiful composition including an almost religious theme for sitar and backing vocals, repetitive in style but quite catchy melody with an inspired 60's felt. "Will You" is an acoustic little ballad with female vocals. "Lasst Uns Auf Die Reise Gehn" is pop folk piece sung in a plaintive tone (in German). "Golden Floor" is a touching pseudo mystical ballad with long sleeping, monotonous melodies (featuring percussions, chants and mellotron). "Wende Dich Her" starts with a nice combination of mandolin & Mellotron; meditative, dreamy like piece. "Unknown World" is an other acoustic ballad with conventional folk melodies. The "floating", dream folk sound (for violin and guitar) is punctuated by male/ female voices. Emotional hippy folk soundscapes for dream time.