Songs from the Victorious City.
If you ever considered My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, by Brian Eno and David Byrne, to be essential to your life, then this album is for you. Endless Festival is a throbbing, motoristic blend of rock'n'roll and middle eastern harmonies. Force and Fire features a throbbing, driving whirlish blend of mysterious chants and teasing musical riffs. The pieces here are more than mere "film music," and certainly more than "mood music." At least two or three of these pieces would feel quite at home on top 40 radio. Although most persons might consider the efforts of Jaz Coleman and Anne Dudley to be fresh and new, the music here sounds quite similar to that on other middle eastern rock'n'roll albums. The album My Eyes by Sheila (2451 CD on Caltex Records) features a pulsating, polyrhythmic offering of Persian rock'n'roll, and an example of a sound similar or identical to that found on Songs from the Victorious City.