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Cafe Del Sol Atmospheres

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This is the best CD of this type of music I have come across. I first heard it on an airline channel and found it was as close to ethereal as you could get while flying through a dark starry night on a plane, somewhere over the world. The tracks are varied and never boring. It takes a few 'listens' to aquaint yourself with any music before you can 'fall in love with it'...just like anything in life.
It is the only CD that I have been asked about by friends, while it played in the background.

The Café Del Sol is a real café in Ibiza that serves "sun-ripened wine", provides "music from sunny places all over the world" and was "born to bring more sun into our lives". Which sounds like a pretty ok manifesto in theory, but does lead one to wonder why they would therefore release this lifeless compilation to achieve that goal.

If the High School poetry competition title ("Atmospheres") and the watercolour cover weren't enough to warn you, the karmic emptiness within is telegraphed from the song titles such as Circles of Reflection, Translucence, Mind Maze, Realm of Enlightenment and Reviviscence. This anaesthetising collection comprises of bland new age twaddle with electric pianos and pan flutes punctuated with sound effects of crashing waves and birds tweeting. Ultimately The Café Del Sol message of positivity has the spirit knocked out of it by the relentless tedium of the whole. As you have probably perceived, it bored the Thai fisherman pants off me but perhaps in the environment of the Café Del Sol this soporific collection might work better. But I doubt it.