Comments (1) ... I have always enjoyed listening to Kaya Project's music. They blend heavy Middle Eastern rhythms and instrumentation with just enough Western percussion and other elements, so that each song is a perfectly prepared dish of fusion cuisine. If you have friends who are into the West coast phenom of Tribal styled bellydance, you won't be hearing this for the first time here. As with nearly every album out there, you have strong songs and weak, but one thing I can say with certainty is that Kaya Project's album Desert Phase is easily their best orchestrated and most powerful to date. The thing that really draws me into their music isn't really the music at all, it's the energy.

1. The Stranger Rolls In
2. Desert Phase
3. Ummah Oum (feat. Shahin Badar)
4. The Fortress
5. Desert Child
6. When Only Sand Remains
7. Dust Devil
8. Eye of the Storm (feat. Omar Faruk Tekbilek)
9. Vijaya
10. Calico Stomp
11. 23 Towers
12. The Fourth Age of Sand
13. Dobro
14. Arizona Morning Cocoon
15. Sundown

Kaya Project's music comes from a true place within the musicians. They aren't trying to be something or sound like something they know, they are truly and honestly expressing something they have get out. I don't know any of them personally, but that's the feeling, the energy, that their music delivers. As you listen to the music and incredible vocalists, you'll find yourself drawn into its layers of sound and emotion. I even reach a point where I accept the harmonica, though barely. That just fuses elements that don't really go together in my opinion. It's tenuous.

I highly recommend getting hold of this album.

Get a free download of "The Fortress" right here
http://soundcloud.com/interchill/kaya-project-eye-of-the-storm

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