Customer Reviews

Bella Neurox

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Miss Murgatroid's approach to accordeon playing is the most adventurous since Kimmo Pohjonen (a brilliant Finnish musician). The entire CD is adventurous in concept and pleasant in execution. Personally, I would prefer more "drama" in the music - the mood of the CD is too uniform for my taste to fully enjoy its 40 minutes of playing time.

This is by far the best of the Miss Murgatroid series. We now can see her true beauty complemented by the amazing vocals of Petra. This chilling work is a must for any avangarde music lover. The duo reaches deep within your soul and reveals this hidden place inside, so warm, so soft, so comfortable, you'll return again and again. Thanks Miss Murgatroid and Petra, the world is a better place for having you in it.

I wouldn't expect many people to understand this sort of record. It's not party music, or music for kids who have been so brainwashed they think that Korn is Kool. It's meditative music--would have been revolutionary twenty years ago. It's trance-setting, watch your mind music that you can't expect entertainment from. Granted, that sort of thing isn't dominating the charts, but that's not the intention. You see, music lovers of the world, not everyone wants to be on the top 40 having Kasey Kasem spew out their name along with some anecdote about their lost kitten. Some people (gasp!) make albums of music they like, without worrying too much about what anyone thinks.

i had a number of people recommend this cd to me, and so i thought it would be worth checking out, since i had to be out of town when murgatroid/haden performed at a local venue. the cd turned out to be an incredible disappointment. petra haden's violin playing is excellent, and it's obvious she's inherited some of the talent of her father. but why she would want to play with the talentless murgatroid is a mystery. lots of drones and repetition on cd, performed not very interestingly. maybe that's your thing, but sure isn't mine.