Customer Reviews

Chameleon

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The kid sister of the world famous Duo Assad comes into her own after a string of critcally accalaimed independant releases with Chameleon which is solid from start to finish.

With her lilting voice and ability to play guitar and mouth percussion at the same time, Badi creates deep hypnotic tunes like the swirling "Waves," mystic "Butterfly", and the fascinating strings of "Rain Trance."

Spirituality coats the eco-jazz numbers "Naio Naio" with it's African prayer chant, "Waterfall", and the flemenco attack of Rhythms of the World" without pushing the message too hard.

One of the years best albums, Chameleon stirs up all the senses through Ms. Assad's guitar and voice with brilliant imagination.

Highly recommended!!

Badi took a Latin beat, a classical guitar, and her amazing vocals and swirled them all together into a phenominal CD. Very seldom does a woman come along that truely plays her guitar the way that Badi does. The vocals are unlike anything that I have ever heard as she belts out all kinds of beautiful sounds. It really makes you want to get up and dance.

I enjoy this type of music which is hard to find. I am happy that I can finally find it in the US.

I almost didn't buy Chameleon because I didn't like the cover, but her singing Latin and English New Age Feminine songs such as Rhythms of the World, Naked, Naio Haio, Waterfall, and Flowing...Into Formlessness show the beauty of Badi. They are sensual, solitary, searching sounds coming with a modern set of guitar, gold flute, acoustic bass, percussion, drums, and cello that fit the mood of the song.
Echoes of Brazil is beautiful. Solo has good Latin guitar.I was a little put off by Electric Fan in Rhythms. I don't know how Latin Grammies missed her.