st. germain sounds
The name is different but the music is the same,maybe less electronics.St.Germain produces this work of Pascal Ohse and other members of his group in Tourist.A must-have for Ludovic Navarre's music fans.
Tommaso

For fans of fusion and erotic funk

This album involves various styles, but most of the tracks are a blend of 70s-everything. Tracks 3 and 5 are perfect for intimate moments with another human being. Highly emotional atmospheres!

Where's the soul??
Why did I bother with this CD? It's truly hard to sit through even if you're just looking for background music. Monotonous and trite, each track, built on programmed beats, is more empty than the next. I've heard it all before. The last track finally gives us a glimmer of originality , but its too little too late.

"produced by st. germain" caught my eye...
first off, this isnt 'genre-busting'... i dont know where i'd go to classify this, but it's earthy, full and rich... very layered and has a lovingly nappy texture. organic.

if i still believed in 'neo-soul' then i'd say that this would either be 'the origin of it' or the 'elevation' to it... guess that jus makes it 'soulful'... not as 'jazz heavy' as what you might expect coming from the st. germaine camp...
ummmmm, soel's album is comparable to archie shepp's 'attica blues'... contemporary to groups such as fertile ground, the pharaohs (extinct early 70's souljazz group/the roots of earth, wind and fire), gil scott-heron, alice coltrane...
or imagine if cinematic orchestra, roy ayers, isaac hayes , george clinton and fela kuti all came together to create an album...

...yeah, that might define it for me...

i buy 5 to 8 cds a month, at least, and this will go down as one of my top ten purchases for 2005... a great weekend album to lounge around with cultured friends.

peace yall,
dirtyboy.

Stellar
I've never been disappointed by anything St.Germain ties its name to and this is no exception. The soulful refs and jazzy waves this CD puts out has your whole body move'n and grooven. It's good at the desk, it's good at rest, it's good in bed, it's good in your head. The Dr. say's buy and you will like it. I heard it first on the sky radio.