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Title: Massive disappointment
Review: Michel Sanchez' second solo album was a big disappointment for me. His first album "Windows" was fresh and clearly rooted in the Deep Forest tradition - Hieroglyphes is nothing like it. It's a quite unmelodic jazz album which seems to have been put together fastly in the studio, almost like a jam session with Sanchez on his usual keyboard sound that becomes very tiresome after some time. Very few of the Deep Forest trademarks are present here, like the great melodies, terrific harmonies and modern rhythms. A great example of Sanchez/DF at their best is track one on the "Pacifique" soundtrack which shows that they still can make wonderful melodies that goes straight into your ear and stays there. "Hieroglyphes" hasn't got any of that.
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