Mandalay - Solace
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Artist: MandalayEdition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2001-04-17
Music Label: V2 North America
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Not Seventeen
- Like Her
- Beautiful
- Deep Love
- It's Enough Now
- This Life
- Flowers Bloom
- Enough Love
- Don't Invent Me
- Insensible
- Kissing The Day
- Believe
- I Don't Want The Night To End
- Beautiful (12in Canny Mix)
- Not Seventeen (Attica Blues Remix)
- This Life (Cevin Fisher Dub)
- Beautiful (Lenny's Sunset Mix)
- Deep Love (Charlie May Remix)
- This Life (Wagon Christ Mix)
- Flowers Bloom (Alex Reece Remix)
- Deep Love (Nitin Sawhney Remix)
- Not Seventeen (Futureshock Alt. Mix)
- This Life (Boymerang Remix)
- Beautiful (Calderone After Hour Mix)
Music reviews of Solace
Music Review: Finding "Solace"
Rating: 4 Stars
Mandalay's "Solace" is the sort of album that takes awhile to sink into your consciousness -- it's ethereal, bittersweet and full of Nicola Hitchcock's sweetly airy vocals. While the bonus remix disc is so-so, with some dud remixes, the songs are a slice of trip-hop heaven.
The tone is set with the trip-hop/piano ballad, "Not Seventeen," a wistful ballad that slips into the slightly trippier breakup song "Like Her." Smooth, soft soundscapes are the base of all the songs -- almost all ballads, with a few bouncier trip-hop songs mixed in there. Among the following songs are the smooth "Beautiful" (most recently covered by Sarah Brightman), the poppy "It's Enough Now," wispy "Enough Love," and the eerie, spacey "Flowers Bloom."
The second disc is something of a disappointment. Some of the songs don't fare so well when covered with trippy beats, like "Beautiful (12'' Canny Mix)." It completely disrupts the sweetness of the song to have sharp percussion and windy synths. The horn-and-strings of "This Life" and sweet "Deep Love" are drowned in harsh, discoish rhythms. But there are some solid remixes, like the dreamy "Beautiful (Lenny's Sunset Mix)" and music-box melody of "Deep Love (Nitin Sawhney Remix)."
There's something very soothing and sweet about Mandalay. The trancey trip-hop mixes mellow and moody, with the occasional dose of organic instrumentation to keep it from getting dull. The first disc isn't the sort of thing you dance to, but rather drowse to on an autumn evening. The second... well, you can dance to it, but it lacks sweetness.
The heavier beats of many remixes are a problem -- they cover up the delicate melodies in bleeps and blips. But in the original and softer mixes, the music is outstanding. There are hints of horn, piano, church bells and violins mixed in, as well as some windy synth that underscores them. It helps ground the trippy music.
Nicola Hitchcock has a lovely voice. It's sweet, cool and pure as stream water. An odd thing about it is that her voice is almost always trembling, as if she's on the verge of crying. Odd, but somehow endearing. In a few songs, she sounds stronger and more assured ("Flowers Bloom" is a good example). The lyrics are simple and almost childlike; in Hitchcock's voice, they sound very heartfelt.
Mandalay's music is as beautiful and light as a glass butterfly, and "Solace" is a solid collection of songs and remixes. Although the remix disc is not so good, the original songs are excellent.
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