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...gives Whack soulfulness and heft. Down in the Bottom, the CD's finest cut, chugs forward on a rhythm smart enough to make Smokey Robinson proud and maybe even cool enough to have made Charlie Parker feel like soloing. Don't ever expect the jazz-pop fusion of, say, Yanni to put you in mind of performers like that...
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First there was music, then there was Yanni. Not sure what this Yanni stuff sounds like? Imagine planetarium music, crossed with a grade-B movie soundtrack. Now imagine the musicians are a '70s rock band, accompanied by a full orchestra. All that remains to be added is a dose of '90s new age spiritualism, the sexy Greek presence of Yanni and a sky full of stars. Yanni Live at the Acropolis provides all three of these elements: the starry Greek night, 48-track digital recording and for those laser disc connoisseurs, 14 camera angles worth of Yanni's flowing dark...
Fortunately, or unfortunately, Yanni's tenth album reveals him to be a musical simpleton. This album is full or romantic music, but it really lacks passion. Yanni writes music that is just like his personality--striving for beauty and deepness, and producing schmaltz. His own words best describe this philosophy: "My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life's experiences and translate them into music--music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener." The incredible thing is that Yanni appears to be totally sincere...
...increasingly chic lower Brattle Street area--is not unlike the comfort one feels when entering a McDonald's in a foreign land. Here is a new kind of home, a place where everything produces, a warm deja vu, a place where there is no worry the background music of Yanni can't cure...