Customer Reviews

Dancing Fantasy

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This is a great find...this is the real meaning of "smooth jazz"...close your eyes and sit back...very romantic and sensual...i

I just love this CD. Very smooth and relaxing jazz - I leave it playing in the car for days. Very similar to Paul Hardcastle and The Jazzmaster series - which is a real complement to any group. Wish I could find more of their music.

A brilliant mixture of hip-hop beats with mild synth creating a perfect soundtrack for equally day and night.

During those rare quiet nights in the ER, there's nothing quite like Dancing Fantasy's "Take Five" to soothe the weary. The opening note will take your breath away! This song, and subsequently, the album, was my intro to smooth jazz. Enjoy.

This is a must have if you are new to dancing fantasy. great cd

If you know the New Age harp music of Vollenwieder, there's a track on this CD called Fly. It features a subtle harp in the background that is very reminiscent of Andreas Vollenweider's sound and style.So much so that I thought perhaps he made a guest appearance on the track. But there's no info indicating this. Is this track just borrowing from his harp style as an appreciation for his music? Or is it really him?

If you haven't heard of Andreas Vollenweider? Check him out!

Dancing Fantasy's self-titled 1999 release is an interesting mix of covers as well as of course original material. The covers often have a mixed signal from me. Their cover of "Take Five" is definately original but I am not too fond of how they converted a 5/4 timing into just a conventional 4/4 track but apart from that, this is still a great song. The cover version of Art of Noises famous 1984 classic "Moments In Love" is beautifully done and has it's own character altogether but I wish it was much longer. The second half of this album is stronger with the beautiful "Eternal" and "Power of Life". The closing track "Farewell" brings back some of the classic DF of their early years but even that is a far cry from beauties like "Quiet Beauty" and their "California Grooves" release. Overall, this is yet another decent but mixed bag collection.

I have been collecting music from the past 25 years.
I own practically all CDs from Dancing Fantasy:

"Worldwide", "Day Dream", "Soundscapes", "California Grooves", "Midnight Boulevard", and "Moonlight Reflections".

and this new one, "Dancing Fantasy", is the one I like the LEAST!!!

First of all, if you have followed DF career you will notice that they have changed from "Intelligent_Progressive New Age" to a much more commercial(almost pop) style.

My favorite CD is "Midnight Boulevard" and it is totally different from "Dancing Fantasy".

"DF" CD is a bunch of covers mixed with "original" material. And I say "original" because you can hear passages from earlier albums in many tracks. Moreover, the cover of "Moments in Love" is pathetic since I own the Original CD from The Art of Noise and I can tell that TAOF song is a 9-minute piece that you wish to last longer, while the DF version is more shorter and lacks the emotional hurricane the original version has. "Take Five" is another fiasco. I also own the Original version, which was written decades ago, and this one is far beyond Dancing Fantasy's version.

I believe that being forced to give whatever stars out of FIVE is a crime. I would prefer 100/100 score reviews. But that's not the way it is. So, 3 out of 5 is my most honest opinion. However, in order to make this review useful for you, let me tell you this: if you like "Soundscapes", buy this CD; but be aware that "DF" is kind of "jazzy pop", while "Soundscapes" shows much more carefully designed music. On the other hand, if you like "Midnight Boulevard"'s style, DON'T waste your time and money listening to this CD. You will be very disappointed!!!

the group of dancing fantasy ,blue knights ,red knights are together .looking for the cd os straight from the heart to complete the whole collection of the group.