This project's MySpace site describes it as "the incontinent and cranky electronic love-child of producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Darren Solomon". But rather than cranky, this CD is soft and smooth.

1. 14 Days
2. Northern Lights
3. You'll Never Know
4. Sweet Life
5. Eu Quero Um Samba
6. Australia
7. Peace, Heart
8. Sonnet 96
9. Pattern Recognition
10. Violets

With a variety of male and female singers on each track, each of the ten songs has a different feel. "14 Days" hearkens back to the relaxed sound of fifties bossa nova. Joao Gilberto's "Eu Quero Um Samba" is in the same vein, with more beat and less string section emulation.

"Northern Lights" is singer/songwriter electronica. "Peace, Heart" has a taste of blue-eyed soul. "Sonnet", "Pattern Recognition", and Barry Manilow's "Sweet Life" are straight out ballads.

Solomon successfully combines his influences on "Violets", where a torchy female singer builds the drama of her singing, while the background moves from synth and beats to a soft wall of sound.

The worst track is "Australia", where the less-than-talented singer expresses the desire to go "ten thousand miles on an airplane", unfortunately not before he mangles this five-minute throwaway.

A characteristic of all these songs is their lighter-than-air quality. Some listeners might find it too insubstantial and lacking depth. Others may love its relaxing lounge melodies with audible but restrained beats.

~ Dave Howell

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