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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Still memorable, if not their best, 28 Oct 2005
A bit more botanic, Brazilian and less good humoured than the truly great Tales of the Unexpected, this nevertheless delivers the kind of thing Shpongle fans would expect. So you get top of the range programming, dazzlingly inventive sonic landscapes and another great looking Shpongle CD.This band, if you can call a duo a band, never stands still, but even so revolves around a basic Terence McKenna/mushroom/DMT hub and has a genius for exploring odd melodic and tonal blind alleys that turn into gorgeous new directions. It is the kind of music that should be shot into space as a showpiece of how inventive human beings can be. Nevertheless, some sadness and weariness here, picked up from the onset in the slow burning intro, Botanical Dimensions which segues without a break into Track 2.. and so on. A great, fertile, collaboration of mavericks. It would be a great pity if this kind of music only ever gets heard by a few world weary Goa trance veterans..because these guys have such a wide-angled sense of life's richness. Raja Ram has a very distinguished history as the flautist of cult heroes Quintessence, which have now seen their albums lovingly brought back to life. So if you want to hear what he was doing in his first flush of fame, grab onto the Quintessence albums, especially "Self" and "Dive Deep".
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