Goasia - Dancing With The Blue Spirit

On 2010-08-19 01:30:44, KanibaL HolokausT wrote:
WRITTEN BY Penzoline:


Goasia - Dancing With The Blue Spirit

KAGDILA RECORDS
2010




DA ZBAT



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1. Black Kahva 9:29
2. How Deep Is Your Trip 7:35
3. Dancing With The Blue Spirit 7:31
4. Avatar 8:21
5. Ethnic City 7:37
6. Visitors 8:30
7. Sabotage 8:25
8. Terra Incognita 7:34
9. Transonic Fields 8:01
10. Reach New Land 6:17


Goasia is finally back and better than ever! Goasia first debuted with a double artist album, Purple Energy, which featured tracks from Omegahertz's and Goasia's, both of which have a completely unique style. Goasia presented us something we hadn't gotten before in goatrance. It had a reminesence of the soft sound of Dimension5, but it was far more liquid and the melodies were very emotional and ethnic. I personally can't even explain them, the influences are all over the place, asia, india, you name it. Then Goasia made their first solo album debut with Suntrip records in 2007. The album was called From Other Spaces and the style was far more refined of what was heard before. The overall tone of the album was a mix of spacey and down to earth atmospheres with underlying themes of discovering, peace and love. The melodies were uplifting, unique, booming straight from the heart yet not venturing to the cheesy side in any way in my opinion, though one negative was that the album as a whole lacked some variation.
After 3 years Goasia is back with a 2nd Solo album on Kagdila Records(who have finally really jumped on the new school goa ship with 3 albums in less than 6 months) which features a reworked style of what you'd except from Goasia. This is also well represented with the cover, while the last album was more space oriented digital artwork, this one is a traditional painting. What kind of style exactly? Let's find out.

Black Kahva
The album starts out with an echoic voice sample that is being rattled from left to right. 0:14 we get a soothing synthesizer pad and at 0:27 the bassline arrives. It's very deep, rolling like a huge non-textured wheel and the kick follows the same path - a true goatrance bassline, I'd expect nothing less. A lot of atmospheric and organic sounding details ensue after the introduction. The melodies are very Goasia but even though you know it is Goasia without even knowing the track or artist name, there's something different here. 3:34 arrives and we get our first major melody segment, which is absolutely inspiring. It is ethnic, it is epic, it is organic and vivid. After the melody segment we get a small breakpoint and at 4:43 the same melody arrives with real world instrument (Sounds like one of the Indian acoustic quitar things. I'm not sure as I do not know.) and its a fantastic touch. Only adds to the whole theme of organic and ethnic sound. The track progresses further getting more and more crazier with different kind of sounds. Namely 6:36 it introduces this absolutely fantastic liquidy sound. Absolutely breathtaking track of an introduction to a new style.

How Deep Is Your Trip
Starts with a spiritual echoing sound 0:15 introduces yet another absolutely loveable synth pad. As it progresses we get a bassline that is still deep but not as rolling and hitting like the previous track, a solid stomp with a nice kick. A lot of different sorts of little interesting details flying around as it goes on. 1:59 gives us the main melody and it's a little more toned down on the crazy scale. It flows on with different unique magical sounds as it goes forward. 3:33 after a small breakpoint we get something absolutely new. These sounds that the Goasia guys use are just incredible. They're unique, interesting and sound extremely good and organic. Makes me wonder how the hell do they come up with this stuff. 5:18 a breakpoint arrives a flying bird echoes, the melody arrives again and gets slowly twisted and then progresses into a very pleasing ending. Overall a more spiritual journey than the last one, taking some turns from the path and doing new things.

Dancing With The Blue Spirit
Ah, the title track, and that's what it should be. The track starts with an absolutely peaceful atmosphere with a ton of passion and love in the air and definitely not long and the emotional melody arrives. The bassline rolls the song forward very calmly. 3:18 a breakpoint arrives, it establishes the spiritual mood even more and has a small whistle segment which only makes the organic sound so much more better. A melody arrives again at 3:59 and it's so completely heart warming and euphoric. Small details such as a whistle follows it along. 4:40 and a new breakpoint where an epic echoing melody let's us rest for a moment and then comes back with the bassline. The rest of track gives a more more breakpoint and the last segment that ends so very beautifully. This piece of music is the most emotional thing Goasia has ever done and one of the most emotional goatrance tracks ever made. Also a big plus on the rich unique textures that deepen the experience. Absolutely beautiful!

Avatar
This is where the new Goasia style finally comes completely clean. This an epitome of an ethnic and organic sound. Different organic sounds emerge at every turn, it is like forest wildlife, excluding the bigger animals of course. The bassline follows the same line as the earlier one's but is a bit more pronounced as it really does create the base for the atmosphere. 2:53 a breakpoint arrives and it is lifted back up with this absolutely different kind of melody. It sounds like no other has ever sounded, or I have ever heard at least. I can't describe it, but I do love it. 5:00 arrives and the track takes a new turn to the Goasia experiment land. 5:40 and the atmosphere gets very playful, the upcoming rhythms make you smile. I'd love to see how this would affect the dancefloors! Absolutely a wonderful track. When I listen to it I see a morning forest or a jungle in my mind, the atmosphere is so strong.

Ethnic City
Ethnic sounds ensue. Sounds like you are entering Aboriginal's village! You get a tribal singing sample that works like magic on the atmosphere. A Colourful and uplifiting melody arrives at 2:38. The tribal sounds follow in it's steps. 3:38 slow it all to a breakpoint where it can developed a twisted melody that would make a snake charmer move like a snake himself. From there it progresses with quite the same pattern as the rest of the tracks have, but obviously everything else is different. The melodies, effects. Again it doesn't disappoint. Ethnic, organic, spiritual!


WRITTEN BY Penzoline