Description
- Desire
- Portraits
- A Quiet Place
- Enchantment
- Faventibus Ventis
- In the Air
- Frozen Light
- Masquerade Girl
- Inner Spirit
- Float in the Dark
- Magic Sleigh Ride
- Karma
- Book of Memories
- The Tower
- Enchantment Power Mix
- Enchantment DW (Summer Club Mix)
Superb arrangements of haunting beauty with wonderful themes
Sylvain Lupari / gutsofdarkness.com & synth&sequences.com –
After a second album (The Colours of Music) where the rhythms got intertwined into musical embraces to the scents of Tangerine Dream (Le Parc), Jean Michel Jarre (Metamorphoses) and Vangelis, Claudio Merlini returns with a second album on AD Music label and its New Age division. Closer of the New Age and Easy Listening borders than of contemporary electronic based sequence music, Enchantment proposes 14 titles which flow with more sweetness and romantism than his previous work where the rhythms, always soft, merge with beautiful melodies weaved in the sighs of Asia.
Spreading his romantic approach over recurring melodious themes, the Italian synthesist announces his colors from the start with Desire” and its celestial choirs which introduce a slow lascivious rhythm. The percussions are bubbling in a static broth while chords to tones of guitars are forging a meditative melody which strolls in a musical pattern weaved in a tearing of Merlinis influences. “Portraits” follows closely with its percussions rolling which bring us towards a melodious approach where crystal clear arpeggios stream with a beautiful fluidity on a good nervous sequential line. The approach is very near the melodies of Tangerine Dream in The Atomic Seasons with choirs and Mellotron violins which float above a musical structure filled by Asian flavors. With its silky flute on a rhythm which waddles innocently on fine percussions and chords of a romantic guitar