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The three-cut composition kicking off this disc is the worldbeat equivalent of automatic writing — part inspiration, part plain loopiness. As the second cut, "Okay," wound into "Neptune Boogie" in the exact same groove, I began considering this disc as a wanderer's version of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians — or, worse, as Tubular Bells with Jonas Lindgren's fuzzbox violin solo subbing for Viv Stanshall. To its credit, this resembles new age music not in the least, where one usually finds a similar mixture of oud, berimbau, didjeridoo and exotic percussion. Nice try, but the global circumnavigation still sounds like package-tour group members emptying pockets of foreign coins.