Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors: Still Chillin' - Indie Music Review
By Kevin Frank, HOT INDIE NEWS .com
Date Published: September 12, 2007
Vincent Roth was a historian, journalist, and naturalist who in worked
for many years as a surveyor in Guyana's interior and recorded his
encounters with the wildlife there in writing, sketches, and watercolors.
Gabrielle Roth is likely not kin with Vincent Roth. However, the music
of her group Gabrielle Roth and The Mirrors on the demo recording,
"Still Chillin', reflects some kinship in the landscapes of its
musical sketches and watercolors, which all lead to the healing nature of
the interiority of body, mind, and spirit.
This is without question yoga music. Though the instrumentation is not
always organic (there is, for instance, an electric violin featured
prominently alongside the chanting in "Stephanie's Song" and an
underpinning of synthesized chorus in others), the sonic waves generated by
the concentric percussion of each track lends to an ambient,
trance-like, meditative state.
The well intended title of the first track, "Descending", is
somewhat misleading in that the song takes you neither down, nor up. It is an
Andean waltz that helps you maintain your tantric high. For those in
the yoga know, "Shavasana" is more aptly named, symbolizing the
character of all the songs here: good, if you're after rejuvenation
through relaxation.
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