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Buddha Cafe
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Price: $10.55
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0671468001023
Label: Intent City
Manufacturer: Intent City
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Intent City
Release Date: 2003-09-30
Studio: Intent City
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Customer reviews of Buddha Cafe
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Musical Dharma
Comment: The selection on this CD is far superior to the Buddha Bar offerings. I have been inside a Buddha Bar, the one in Paris actually, and I like the atmosphere, but the tracks on the CDs usually vary too greatly for one listening experience. Yet, that is precisely where Buddha Cafe shines.
You can listen to this CD from start to finish, over and over again. I drive with this one on the iPhone, listen while I write articles at [...], and even while the family cleans the house... This is a great selection of tunes.
It might also be the only offering in this genre to offer something close to Dharma as well...
Namaste,
Matt
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Buddha Cafe OK
Comment: To be sure, there are some excellent tracks on this CD collection, but overall i did find it a bit more "clubby" than expected. If you REALLY want to chill out and appreciate truly exceptional production, nothing i've found has topped Zero 7's Simple Things. Or if you REALLY want the ultimate in relaxing chillout, check out some of Brian Eno's ambient collection such as Ambient 1: Music for Airports or Thursday Afternoon -- unique and groundbreaking stuff.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Buddha bar Specialist
Comment: Ok the last review said it all
its there all there
great cd
thank god for buddha
Ther is originality out there
Customer Rating:
Summary: Absolutely stunning and entrancing!
Comment: Buddha Caf? is yet another excellent release from the Intent City record label and compiles twelve beautiful tracks onto one CD. The album cover does a great job at portraying the mood of the collection with the feel being a mix of electronic, New Age, and world fusion. Out of all of the New Age compilations available to date, I would have to say that this and "Spiritual Chillout" rank as my favorites as of writing this review.
"Karma Shabda" by No Noise opens this heavenly journey with electronicly amplified jazz keyboards before becoming a serene jazzy song with R&B rhythms, a caf?-like mood and a beautiful chage between the major and minor notes in the track. It then goes from just beautiful to entrancing when a spacey ambience comes in along with spoken voice with the "Ocean of Joy", "what is right and what is wrong". This actually reminds me of the similar feel I felt when I first listened to "Elevation 4" a few years back. "Karma Shabda" almost is like an echo of "Elevation 4".
"Static Apparition" by Govinda is one of the strangest songs on this collection. It starts with a jazz-like symbol before becoming an exotic groovy song with an eerie melody backed by incredible didgeridoo playing. A very strange-electronic bubble sound effect also echoes throughout the track. It even almost sounds like something I'd hear from a video game.
"New Day Rising" by Lotus is one of my favorite songs on this CD. It starts with a beautiful hazy evening melody and a beautiful vocal before culminating in an energetic song with a haunting 12-string guitar and jazzy rhythm. I think the lyrics are excellent and makes this song even more enjoyable. Fabulous job Lotus!
"Secrets of Tantra" is more pop-like with a bluesier sound but is yet another really pleasant track.
"Bolo Hari" by Prem Joshua perfectly follows "Secrets" and a strange mix of jazz, world and lounge-like R&B elements combine to form a stunning, spiraling song with a very unique rhythm.
"Bolo" however is followed by what is possibly my favorite track on this entire CD entitled "Just A Love" by Masala. The restaurant voices of the previous track gradually unmask a relaxing dance beat that eventually blossoms into a beautiful, haunting track with a beautiful flute, excellent piano playing and an eerie, hazy evening atmosphere. The combination results in an excellent song for dancing on a summer evening at a picnic. I don't know what it is but first hearing this song literally hit the spot for me. As the beats fade down, the eerie melody keeps going and merges into the next track. It's length of nearly 7 minutes also allows one to really enjoy it longer as well.
"Oceans of Joy" by Ikarus is very different from "Secrets of Tantra" and is actually better as well with beautiful flutes and a haunting vocal chant in the background. But like it's predecessor "Secrets", this song does suffer from a short length.
"Forbidden Love" by Omar Faruk (actually remixed by Govinda) is a very weird but entrancing song with an exotic Central Asian atmosphere backed by a strong powerful vocal in a foreign language that I currently cannot translate as of writing this review but that's what makes this song even more interesting to listen to. The song has a strange urban mood as well with it's strong electronica. "Forbidden Love" also has some interesting chord structures as well.
"Elixir For Sunsets" by Phobos is a really joyful song with a bright sunset summer afternoon feel.
"Eastern Girl" by Waterbone took me by storm with it's very odd Tibetan mix of echoing chants and a strong New Age rhythm that I had never heard before. The combination of exotic drums and rhythms along with a very ethereal atmosphere results in a stunning track that is already becoming a classic in my book. Though warranting a separate review, please check out "Tibet" by Waterbone. It's an incredible CD!
The journey through Buddha Caf? concludes with the stunningly beautiful closer entitled "Vitterio Square" by Upanishad. The song begins with a haunting ambient New Age intro, and an exotic percussion which all of the sounds converge with pop-jazz styles to form a stunningly beautiful closer reminiscent of "Elevation 4" and "Earthtone Collection Two" from years ago.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Consistency, groove, quality, beautiful muscianship, east + west.
Comment: After a fun visit to the fun Buddha Bar in London, I bought this CD, just for fun, to remember good times. But then I started listening.
This is an amazing CD, one of the few I've heard in a long time where there is an obvious commitment to creating a consistent groove throughout. And then I REALLY started listening: to the musicianship, the beautiful compositions, the sassy East/West ironicized attitude (so beautiful and charming and superficial yet deep). I just can't keep this off my 5.1 surround system, even while I'm working - I don't find it distracting, I find it inspiring, and when I'm done working, I dance to it. My favorites:
Static apparition (Govinda) ... mysterious, funky, infectious beat, bubbly sounds, hopeful pauses, Eastern Girl like little funky speakers on the streets of Bombay, crying love and laughter, mr. talking wah-wah is going to tell you how it is -- and you don't know, do you? Near the end of all, harmonic programmed chromatic infundibula warps you away. You end in bubbles, and beat. Ohmigod, do it again.
New Day Rising (Lotus) ... Eastern girl introduces Suicide Girl, on her way to Paradise. Potential top 40 here. Tuneful. Singable. Unforgettable. When no one else is looking, you'll be singing this with air guitar. But Eastern girl keeps coming back, reminding Suicide Girl, perhaps, that enlightenment can only come with the cessation of desire.
Elixer for Sunsets (Phobos) ... I'm walking down a side street in Bombay... or is it Madras, or Colombo -- it's 1973, and I hear the film songs from a thousand radios... a vortex seems to open, and I am helpless to keep from falling in, it is rhythmic, and I feel myself dancing... I hear a singing goddess... I'm being offered a magical drink, I realize. Why not? Why not drink it? What have I got to lose? I cannot have her, I realize, but it does not matter. This is a world of magical singing and drumming, it is enough.
Eastern Girl (Waterbone). My top favorite. Sassy, ironic, rhythmic, wonderful, unabashed, in-your-face, no-apologies: I am I, and that's just the way it IS. Just maybe, she's saying, you are missing something. Maybe the whole point. She's talking, are you listening? Well dance then, at least.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Welcome to the Buddha Cafe.whether relaxin',chillin'out or expressing your buddha nature, this exotic collection where east meets west set the mood and creates the groove. Where blissful beats and spiritual chillout meet with downtempo grooves and excursions in electronica, Buddha Cafe bridges the gap between ancient and modern sounds. The first in a series of follow up collections that take the listener on a journey through a musical mosaic of eastern influences as well as modern western electronica.This music will appeal to fans of Buddha Bar and similar musical genres. So step into the Buddha Cafe and enjoy..
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