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Джефф Даунс и его группа New Dance Orchestra вернулись с новым альбомом "Electronica", реализация которого ожидается в 2011 г. (если только уже не произошла).

The album features the intricate and evolutionary keyboard music of Geoffrey Downes, whose work in The Buggles, YES and ASIA has received worldwide attention, through the hits "Video Killed The Radio Star" and "Heat Of The Moment". All tracks also feature the beautiful Anne-Marie Helder's magical voice, whose vocals in Panic Room and Mostly Autumn has been critically acclaimed. This combination of skill and musical talent produces a spellbinding selection of tracks, including the amazing "Shine On" and the stunning "Forgiven".

This album and MP3 samples are exclusively available through www.newdanceorchestra.com prior to its general release in 2011.

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The New Dance Orchestra is a project by Geoff Downes of Asia and Buggles fame, which for this album features Panic Room’s Anne-Marie Helder on lead vocals. It was an unexpected surprise when I heard about it online, and I ordered it unheard based solely on the reputations of the people involved.
Billed as "Dance-Pop” to my ears it’s more pop than dance, made up of well-crafted songs rather than Ibiza-style club anthems. Musically, comparisons with The Buggles are I suppose inevitable, but I can also see slight elements of late-period ELO when a disco flavour crept into their sound. The overall feel is certainly very 1980s, down to some synth sounds that are either delightfully retro or cheesily dated depending on your point of view. The arrangements are entirely keys and programmed rhythms, but one or two of the actual songs wouldn’t sound out of place on an Asia, or for that matter, a Panic Room album. Certainly the choruses of songs like opener "Shine On”, "Dance To The Music Of Time” or the gorgeous closing ballad "Golden Days” get lodged in the brain as earworms after just a few listens.

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