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Summary: Lets get this music heard!
Comment: It's tough to even start this review. My really good friend told me about this group (the duo consists of Simon Posford and Raja Ram for those who don't know) and I was thrown off by the wacky name. I soon found that this strange new music would be among the best I have ever heard. Shpongle brings to the table a completely different and wonderful way of creating music.
I don't want to go off on a tangent, so I will just be frank; buy this. I purchased it off iTunes and I would reccomend you do the same, since there are no lyrics, there is really no reason to get the actual disc, and iTunes offers this and the other Shpongle albums for a much lower price. I can't describe the music as well as others may be able to, but I can say that it is a psychedelic, ambient, electronica, exotic sounding adventure that you will want to take over and over again!
Buy this album and show your friends, lets get this music to the masses!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Words cannot fully express...
Comment: This is arguably the best Shpongle album and is chop full of awesomey goodness. I haven't heard anything else that sounds like this (or the other Shpongle albums) in my life. Truly some of the most innovative and unique music out there. Other people have done a great job of reviewing this album, so I don't need to go into more detail--just one more review to help convince anyone to get it.
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Summary: Allow me to introduce you to what you've been missing...
Comment: As words fall painfully short of doing justice to this auditory experience, I shall be brief. Shpongle IS the music you've been waiting for, and Tales of the Inexpressible is the flagship ushering in this masterful, mystical, mesmerising new direction music has taken. Mind, body, and soul will bennefit from TOTI...If you are still reading this review you have missed the point entirely...
...NOW GO BUY SOME SHPONGLE!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best album I own
Comment: I have a huge music collection including all of shpongle but this is beyond doubt my favorite. I often find after a few listenings of a CD I start to get a bit bored and land up ripping to mp3 and mixing in the songs but with shpongle I always listen to the entire album beginning to end. I only play it when I am really in the mood to listen -fungus helps ;). The journey he takes you on is unmatched.
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Summary: Top-five All Time album
Comment: I have owned this album for about five years.
It's brilliant.
Simon Posford (The brainchild of Shpongle) is a modern Mozart: unconventional, brilliant, inspired.
Note that this is heavily electronic music, and tends toward the styles you can dance to (techno, trance), but has a strongly psychedelic bent and some stints into ambience. The vocals (female vocals, on about three tracks) are flawless, moving. The ethnic elements are well-done and not overstated. But what really makes this music work is the subtle complexity, brilliantly mixed into a coherent and absolutely enjoyable whole.
Do note that there are samples (spoken) that ... err... condone the use of hallucenigenics. So be warned. :)
But if you are at ALL into heavier electronica, you will--beyond doubt--count this album among your favorites. ...In fact, the longer you wait to buy it, the angrier you will eventually be once you realize what you've been missing.
And for those of you that already own the album and came here to see what other people were suggesting, I say: more Simon Posford. There are few things that come close to his style. Note that Posford has over 30 (!) aliases. Start with Younger Brother and go from there.
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