Review
FRANK VAN BOGAERT "One Out of Five" Between 1997 and 2004, Belgium composer and master musician Frank Van Bogaert released five stunning CDs, each with different themes and degrees of stylistic growth. Always cinematic by nature, Frank's music was continually compared to both Vangelis and Jean Michel Jarre, and surely those reference points make sense. They all love those "Big Synth" sounds, and thrive on great, epic arrangements. But as you will hear on the new collection, "One Out of Five," the similarities stop there. Blending electronic music with World music is not unique to Van Bogaert, but the ease and genius which he brings to his musical weavings is uniquely his own. Even the classic sound of "Deep Forest" finds its way into key tracks. By choosing his own best tracks, and reworking them into a satisfying sequence, he has achieved finding that place where the whole exceeds the sum of the parts, so to speak, and the result is one of the most marvelous CDs so far this year. One of our customers, who is a world-class star-gazer, claims "One Out of Five" to be the best CD he has ever purchased! An added attraction is the colorful digipack with an 8-page booklet containing a retrospective of Van Bogaert's epic music. --Lloyd Barde,Backroads music,USA
Product Description
With five highly succesful albums to his credit, Frank has become one of the leading names in today's melodic electronic music. Many reviewers concider him to be Vangelis' follow up,although he doesn't like to be compared with the Greek artist,it is obvious that both belong to the same "melodic and symphonic" school. "One out of Five" is a "best selection" out of his five albums .
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