Search - Sven van Hees :: Calypso

WHY HAS NO ONE REVIEWED THIS CD?????!!!!!

Darrell L. Lee | Jackson, MS | 11/04/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Sven Van Hees, whoever this guy is, kicks major "blipblipblip"!!! I've heard some of his material on numerous chill out compilations, and just had to try out one of his CDs. I picked up "Calypso" and was immediately drawn into this guy's style of combining various genres of music into beautiful, dancefloor/bedroom ready arrangements. The sound Van Hees conveys is part Ibiza, part Calypso, part Jazz, part Soul and a whole lot of Funk. "Calypso" is very sexy and should not be overlooked by any means. Shouldn't the silouhette on the cover be enough for you to get the CD if you've never heard of this guy before :-)????"

H'mmm, is this 'smooth jazz' to the chilled lounge crowd?

Mendicant Pigeon | pdx, or United States | 04/01/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I'd like to temper the two rave reviews below with a bit of clear headed thinking. While this is a pleasant down tempo kind of chilly lounge round, it isn't something that will change your temporal reality. I wish that this album was sampled so you all could listen to bits of the tracks and get the feel of it, but as you can't I'll attempt to describe it. This is an album of low key, laid-back pieces often accompanied by funky beats, wah wah pedal-powered guitar samples, and other bits and pieces (saxophone and flute riffs) that one would find on late 70s and early 80's soul, and rhythm & blues (anyone remember jazz fusion?) records but way, way chilled out. I guess that if I were to imagine the artist, I'd see him as a funky stoner. These are tunes that you can easily play in the background to, ahem, set the mood, or just to do stuff around the house. It isn't anything that you should go gaga over, I think. Beautiful cover art though: I think I'm in love."

Cool smoothness

Dominique J. B. Feneyrou | Paris, France | 11/20/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Velvet" could've been the title of this gem. Sax, sexy bass, funky rhythms, lounging voices all wrapped up in a voluptuous desire to make you feel like your riches are well deserved. It has some lounge but leaning not towards the bossa nova late trend, rather the luxurious smoothness you could find in funked up hip hop, George Benson's guitar seduction, or Washington's sax. If you know your DJ's think Kruder&Dorfmeister groovy tunes, late sessions from Ministry of sound or the Thievery Connection duo. This record seems to have been extracted from 1970's tracks and has that impeccable production, well licked which makes it seem like it will stay in your collection forever. It will in mine."