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Wow, Kila has changed my standards for great music

Amy Rendon | College Student from Schaumburg, IL USA | 04/24/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"What an amazing album. I heard them play live on an NPR show in my car and I fumbled to find something to write their name on. This music is soulful and beautiful. The CD takes you on a rollercoaster ride of emotion and wonderment from track one to the end. It is my favorite CD for anytime: relaxing, working, driving, etc. Their sound is fresh and imaginative. If you have it play it, if you don't get it. You won't be dissaopinted!"

Buy it! Simply buy it!

David Keymer | Modesto CA | 02/07/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I picked this record up in Ireland this summer and it blew me away. My roots are more in jazz than in pop music or, especially, Celtic music. At times, Kila reminds me of the long, free pieces of the first Mahavishnu Orchestra --walls of sound starting soft and small and growing in intensity and depth, music built on riff rather than long melody lines, a battery of subtlely shifting percussion and bass riding behind it. I could do without the one ballad --the singer is adequate, the melody plods, it isn't interesting melodically or harmonically as is the rest of the album. But this is small potatoes. Kila is a marvel, worth listening to by jazz, rock and Celtic music fans. I've been listening to and buying jazz for fifty some years, rock, pop and classical music for almost thirty years, and world music almost as long. This is one of the best albums I've heard in the past decade. Dave K. in Dubai."