Bardo

Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2002)
• Original Release Date: January 22, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Raven
• ASIN: B00005YD4K
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #235,221 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

For two decades, musical director-dancer Gabrielle Roth and her ever-changing group the Mirrors have specialized in organic, cross-cultural, tribal trance music with a wide spectrum of instrumentation. Bardo is no exception. Indeed, it may be the group's best recording yet, featuring the serene lead vocals of Russian rocker Boris Grebenshikov (for whom this is the second collaboration with Roth) and the skills of string player Allison Cornell, percussionist Joe Bonadio, flautist David Weiss, and fretless bass player Dassi Rosenkrantz-Cabo, among a cast of dozens. From the laid-back vibe of "Infinite Sky" to the dramatic march of the title track to David Sancious's beguiling electric guitar work on "The Crossing," this album showcases the type of classy music that shatters New Age stereotypes and proves how rich the genre can be. --Bryan Reesman

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hypnotic, entrancing music, March 22, 2002

By A Customer

I have several of Gabrielle Roth's cds and love them. I've played this one 3 times now and every time I have fallen asleep before the cd ends. Which is fine, good, very nice. It just has that effect on me. It has rhythm but it is hypnotic, driving rhythm. This is beautiful music, great for chilling, dancing, seduction, getting lost in.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good, May 11, 2002

By A Customer

Enjoyable and trancelike if you are in the mood for it, didn't find it as captivating as "Refuge"

4 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Trancelike vs Stultifying, April 14, 2004

By	J. Boyd "jtboyd2" (Chesterton, IN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

One person's soothing trance is another's enervating soporific. In spite of a solid set of back-up musicians creating some inventive variations on a theme, I thought the theme itself was monotonous. Maybe it's the influence of featured artist, Boris Grebenshikov, a grim Russian if there ever was one. I believe that the term Bardo refers to a Tibetan Buddhist version of the Christian Limbo or Purgatory. Certainly not the mystical, mythical place I would want to visit. And the music perfectly captures that droning, drowning in goo interdimensional place. I don't generally like everything Gabrielle Roth has produced, but some of her work is among the best out there. I was particularly disappointed in this one.