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Label:
   BHM - http://www.bhm-music.de/
Serial:
   BHM 5.1001-2
Title:
   Mezzoforte: Forward Motion
Description:
   "Forward Motion"

Mezzoforte
Details:
   1. Tribute
2. Nightfall
3. Hardwired
4. Forward Motion
5. Promised Land
6. Four Corners
7. Cruisin'
8. Quartier Latin
9. Funky Staircase
10. Weather Ahead
11. Sizzle
12. Gratitude
Genre:
   Jazz
Content:
   Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
   Hybrid
Recording type:
  
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Reviews: 2
Review by PaulHoncoop February 14, 2006 (3 of 3 found this review helpful)
Performance:  Sonics (S/MC): /
Mezzoforte, by the most of us known by their 80th hit Gardenparty. This band from Iceland is still in the running after more than 20 years. Forward motion is their last album and available on a regular cd and this multichannel sacd. It is a great album with the familiar Mezzoforte sound that after 20 years never lost a sparkle. Partytime!!
Afcourse there are a few laidback moments on this album but for the most it's keeping your body in motion.
The multichannelmix is tremendous. Jazz/fusion music can be sound turbulent in 5.1 but these tracks are not overdone mixed for surround.
Also stereo sounds very good. Yeh this album is a sublime recording.
Great album and highly recommended!

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Review by Barb October 16, 2007 (2 of 2 found this review helpful)
Performance:  Sonics (S):
J. Asmundsson b, F. Karlsson g, E. Gunnarsson kb, G. Briem dr, plus T. Dyani perc, W. Haffner dr, A. Snitzer ts, D. Wilczewski ts, J. Anderson perc, D. Watkins tp, S. Gardener tp, J. Talbot sax, S. Sulzman sax, BHM 2004.
Pop-(rock)-jazz fusion, sometimes of the simple kind, sometimes with driving rhythms an good solos, often with too much keyboards to my taste, all the twelve originals, some of them good dancing music but hardly for just listening the whole disc.
The sound is not bad but over-engineered with too much use of compressors, I think, because the dynamics should be better and there should be more air and space around the instruments and more colour and timbre.

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