Customer Reviews

Essentials

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Chris has a number of excellent albums available, but this is one of the better collections, particularly if you are starting to collect his music. Chris has a Greek heritage, and the music wonderfully reflects this, but it is more eclectic, more varied, quite modern yet, evocative of older, ethnic and vibrant near East dance and festival music. He also has a fine talent for slower, more haunting pieces, and again, this album seems to reflect a perfect balance of themes, tempos and styles to really get one hooked on his albums. This is excellent background music, sophisticated music for a social gathering or conversation pit, BBQ or soiree with hors'douvres, souvlaki, retsina and a friend named Zafaria!

Don't just listen to Chris Spheeris, get off that couch, you old potato and let your feet discover their long lost ancient dances...you want to get lost in the Ageian, vine twist in Santorini and Crete, you know you do! Oppa!

Chris continues to amaze me with his many talents. This CD was actually bought as a starter for a good friend of mine in New Zealand. After attending his performance in September at Lake Tahoe, I'm even more taken by his style, music and content. I have all of his CDs including his new one "Bridge". His CDs makes an ultimate gift to someone in need of finding focus and their center. "Essentials" is as it implies, for the progressive collection.

Very simply, often compilations come with new bonus tracks.

I went and double checked . . . every track on this album

appears on other albums.

Point being, simply to save you the effort of looking

if you think you might want to flesh out a complete compendium

of Chris Spheeris' work.