Desert Starlight
Languishing in a dark corner of payplay.fm, I found this album, Desert Startlight, with some very surprisingly beautiful pieces of music! I’ve never heard of it, or of the artist/group Ametrine, whose name frankly sounds a little pharmaceutical to me. How I discovered it was when I was encashing some of my “Karma Points” or free tracks that you get from PayPlay for basically doing nothing very much. The tracks are what artists have chosen to give away free and so they’re not always the cream of the album, but well, sometimes they work. I have a 187 of them right now and don’t know what to do with them.
But back to Desert Starlight. All the tracks have a pharonic strain to them and are quite interesting. One or two are annoying because of the over-fusionistic latin beat imposed on the melodies, and some because of the pop or disco kind of beat. But others are very beautiful, even delicate. I picked up about 7 of the 17 tracks on this album. The most beautiful is a piece called Isis Dance II (Isis Dance I is strictly annoying) and it’s lovely enough for me to want to choreograph to. I would dance soemthing like Neon’s Serpent from her Fantasy Bellydance Mystery video. It’s very soothing, delicate and pretty. Another pretty one is Valley of the Kings II (Valley of the Kings I is strictly annoying) which is a happy lilting but still pharonic piece. Just how it happened to be that happy if it’s insipired by the Valley of the Kings where everyone’s sorta dead now, I don’t know. And from what I know, I don’t think they ever did party much there even when its entombed inhabitants where alive.
Other pretty pieces are Ramayana (huh?), Amethyst, and Sands of Time. Storm and Waterfall aren’t too bad either. Give it a whirl — I think you can hear the samples without an account… at http://payplay.fm/ametrine . You know… I’d say they were a little Mosavo-like.
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