Album Review: Gravity from Simon Sammut and Omar Vazquez
Album Review: Gravity from Simon Sammut and Omar Vazquez Album: Gravity Artist: Simon Sammut and Omar Vazquez Label: Self-released Website: http://simonsammut.com World music and New Age encompass a wide breadth of music but there is likely no doubt in anyone's mind that the music of electric and acoustic bassists Simon Sammut and Omar Vazquez fall into these two open-ended categories. Their latest creation Gravity consists of compositions that dwell on roomy atmospherics and eclectic soundscapes. Capricious and airy, listeners detect more soundwaves than chord patterns or intervals of notes. Like a breeze casting a sail, the particles emitted from the instruments glide like intangible emanations, producing vibrations that float across the air, massaging the listener's aural senses. The soft flutter of the flute moving across "Equinoccio" is layered in heavy bass tones and meandering keys, which segue to a funky poppish rhythm th...