Spicy Tempo - High on Love
Dance/Electronica, Chill, Ambient
California, United States
Overall Impression: Fusing elements of new age and electronica to great effect and boasting a striking level of creativity throughout its arrangement, "High On Love" serves as a brilliant exploration of world music and its many exotic sounds and styles. Whether it'd be Latin-infused melodic explorations, Peruvian-inspired panpipe lines, or the rhythmically charged electronica elements, there is a fantastic amount of variety on display that makes for an enthralling listening experience, one that boasts great creativity and a strong sense of character. Spicy Tempo cleverly draws inspiration from a wide range of diverse and contrasting styles and genres, and it is this particular quality that helps "High On Love" feel wonderfully exciting, this is the type of track that requires one to sit back, close their eyes, and simply let the music carry them away.
Strongest Point(s): There is an exceptional range of diverse sounds on offer from start to finish that continually provides listeners with an abundance of tonal and timbral intrigue as the song progresses. Not only does the varied instrumentation help to compliment the song's myriad of melodic and harmonic elements by helping to showcase these qualities in vastly different perspectives, but the sheer depth that the instrumentation offers ensures the arrangement is continually exciting as well as unexpected in its nature. Melodies bounce off one another with both delicate precision and flair, richly layered rhythmic elements combine to make interesting poly-rhythmic ideas, and the densely packed texture of the track proves to be thoroughly absorbing. The stripping back of the instrumentation that occurs at 2:46 works brilliantly, serving as a nice way to spark extra diversity in the arrangement as well providing both textural and dynamic contrast, offering listeners a mellower and subdued moment that helps to make the tracks more intense and animated sections that bit more effective.
Target Audience Appeal: I can certainly see fans of new-age connecting with "High On Love", it embodies many traits of the style and does a great job of showcasing its many creative ideas.
Artist target suggestions: Yanni, David Arkenstone, Kitaro, Secret Garden, Chris Spheeris, Cusco, Nicholas Gunn, Mehdi, Blue Stone, Jean-Michel Jarre, Enigma, Orbital
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About the Reviewer:
Andre Avanessian is a freelance session musician, composer, and sound engineer based in the U.K. Having studied music production and composition at a degree level, he has taken his passion for all things audio-related to a level that has allowed him to become both a competent musician and performer. Being a self-confessed "Guitar Nerd" Andre has been continually studying the guitar, as well as teaching it, helping students both learn the instrument, develop their songwriting, and how to become proficient in home recording.