ODD BUT GOOD

THIS TUNE IS A GREAT FUSION of Eastern and Western music. To my definitely Western ear this is often hard to do with bands too often drifting off into a vaporous, ill-defined fog. But this band, Delirium, seems adept with these cultural fusions. The song shifts back and forth between rhythmical, more rock sections to mystical Eastern passages. The sample below gives a fairly representative section of the tune before the percussion enters:


REVIEW

This fairly long song (6:46) has a lot of eastern sounds that strike me as a bit odd. But give it a chance, the assortment of sounds really grow on you. There is an eastern instrument that sounds a lot like a banjo, plus finger cymbals, and attack-delay synthesized sounds used as percussion. Songs that depend too much on Eastern music theory don't intrigue me that much (probably a cultural thing) but this band gets the fusion just right. Overall the mood is minor but not overwhelmingly so. There is a female vocal track which is a kind of haunting, eastern chanting, with no discernible words. The drums fade in and out giving the tune a nice rhythmical texture.