| Review by Vladimir February 19, 2005 (3 of 3 found this review helpful)
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Yes, Finally! A Opus 3 album that actually is fun listening to!
All my Opus 3 albums sounds great but this is the first one that allso have a musical content which don't make me bored after just a few tracks. The first time I listened to this album I was really surprised, this was more than I hoped for. Of course knowing that Opus 3 made a rock album made me really curios, but since this is experimential rock completly without song I was not sure what to excpect.
The musical content really surpised me, but the sound quality was exactly as high as I excpected, I can't think of any complains regarding sound quality. The surround mix is 4.1 (no center speaker as usual with opus 3 surround sacd's), the mix is very careful with the surround speakers used for ambience only. At first I didn't see the point of making a surround mix if the rear spekears is barely used, but now I actually enjoy these mixes (but Dark side of the moon will continue to be my absolute favorite sacd!).
I had the privelige of buying this album directly from the man behind opus 3, Jan-Erik Persson, and he said he allso really likes this type of rock and blues, so he promised more albums of this kind. Looking forward to it!
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| Review by clef April 22, 2006 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
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| Very good album with a very good sound. I listen to Stereo sound. I had never heard about this artist before I bought this album. It was an adventure - purchasing but it was worthwile. It's a fancy, natural music which is never boring. A good mix of modern instrumental Blues, Rock and Folk. For me it is a perfect album with a very good sound of an outstanding guitarist. I love it!
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| Review by audiofreak May 31, 2006
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| This is one of most interesting Opus 3 discs (non-classical's). The music is very well performed and I have come back to it very often. The sound is Opus 3 at its best. Recommended.
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| Review by eesau August 3, 2006
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Yes, this is a excellent R&B album from Opus3. The style is, however, very original because all instruments are not really typical for this kind of music (from USA). I further like the excellent style how Peder af Ugglas handles guitar on this SACD. This possibly is the best blues record I have heard for some time now (together with Eric Bibb's latest Opus3 recording in SACD).
And again, I have to thank Opus3's multichannel recording that is very close to the two channel version but provides with that extra ambience so important for creating a true live performance illusion.
Esa
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