Keller & Schonwalder & Friends Project inter.com Play: Lo-Fi   Mid-Fi   Hi-Fi   Download: Lo-Fi   Mid-Fi   Hi-Fi (Excerpt from track 'Come And Taste The Band')

The next track begins with lush symphonic / choir pads and cosmic electronic detail. The guitar enters powerfully but even though it soars it still retains a restrained beauty. This isn't axe man stuff but instead rather mournful. The pads swell and drum detail is added. Its another track that is best listened to with your eyes closed just let yourself go. Just over half way in a superb sequence enters which is then accompanied by a high hat and all manor of percussion. The guitar is still there but it floats so beautifully with all the rest of the music that for most of the time you don't notice it even though it is playing an essential role. The next number again features Bern Braun's beautiful floating guitar work over a gorgeous electronic back drop courtesy of Keller & Schonwalder. Bas provides occasional percussive detail. Again just let yourself be gently taken on a trip. The pace quickens at the four minute mark as a sequence starts up. It gradually becomes louder and more dominant until it is driving the track forward at quite a pace. The drums act like an accompanying sequence and choral pads give the whole thing a euphoric feeling- absolutely wonderful stuff! We are not even half way and things are continuing to build and becoming more exciting by the second, we are no longer floating rather travelling at great speed, wow! The next track shimmers into being then we get an angelic female vocal sample, just a simple wordless refrain that is repeated a few times but doesn't outstay its welcome. We then return to the beautiful state of float that these musicians do better than any other I have heard. The melody started with the sample is subtly repeated in various ways and with different sounds.

A similar slow sequence to the one in the second encore of the Jodrell Bank set can then just be heard and a dreamy guitar melody is added, ideal for the Sunday morning when I am writing this. The sequence doesn't seem to last for long however, the drums taking the track forwards. Faintly in the background the melodic sample can just be heard again. The last track titled 'Final Beats' is, hardly surprisingly a rhythmic track but this time the guitar breaks away from the dreamy licks of elsewhere on the album and really lets rip. The sequence is also something of a stonker. everything comes together perfectly and is cranked up to max finishing the CD off on an extremely energetic and blistering high.