SYNAESTHESIA

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BAND INFO: The word "synaesthesia" means something along the lines of "mixing up the senses." Examples of this are "feeling the music", "hearing the light", and "smelling the pain". The band Synaesthesia is actually an experimental side project for Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber of Front Line Assembly. It can be mis-leading, however, on the Synaesthesia CDs because it says all the songs are written by R. Deckard. However, the music on the Synaesthesia CDs sounds so much like Fulber's and Leeb's that many are speculating that "R. Deckard" is just an alias.

Embody
Desideratum

Embody - OVERVIEW: You can definitely tell that more time was put into this CD than into "Desideratum" due to the increased number of beats and not being limited to only synths-lines (this also being the debut album for "Synaesthesia", too). This CD is definitely ambient but has new flavor added to it: tribal beats. Some of the songs you can just sway your neck and head to; other songs are just trancy noize that make sure you get pulled under. This CD is just completely relaxing with (sometimes) nature samples in the backgrounds of the songs with water running, birds chirping, and wind blowing through some trees. It also has its share of electronic beeps and piano in it too!

RECORD LABEL: Hypnotic Records, a sub-label of Cleopatra

# OF TRACKS: 7

RUNNING TIME: 1:06:19

RELEASE YEAR: 1995

YOU'D LIKE THIS CD IF YOU LIKE: Delerium or Virus

RATING: 5.2 / 10

Desideratum - OVERVIEW: One word can only describe this CD: beautiful. Have you ever been listening to Front Line Assembly's Implode and wondered why "Unknown Dreams" (track #7) has so many long synth-lines while many of the other tracks do not? Well, here's your answer: Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, of Front Line Assembly fame, experiment around with some ambient music. If you are a fan of ambient music, then this CD is a great buy because it is a double CD with over two hours of pure ambience!

RECORD LABEL: Hypnotic Records, a sub-label of Cleopatra

# OF TRACKS: 7 on each CD, making 14 all together

RUNNING TIME: CD1 has 1:07:37; CD2 has 1:09:55; for a total of 2:15:32

RELEASE YEAR: 1995

YOU'D LIKE THIS CD IF YOU LIKE: Psychick Warriors ov Gaia and Delerium (also Fulber and Leeb)

RATING: 4.6 / 10

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