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GREGLAB
The Virtually Invisible Landscape of Sound RMG **** 

The aural equivalent of cinematic widescreen, the music on enigmatically monikered Greglab's album is not so much a cacophony as a waterfall of good vibes. Ricocheting from Curtis Mayfield-tinged soul food to Baz Luhrmannesque treatises on life's more complex conundrums (E.C.T.) and divinely inspired meditations on Cuban/American politics, Greglab's trump card is his impeccable musical sensibility. Produced in Dublin by one MJP Clancy, and swing shifting from the detatched observer state of John Cage (Cuban Love Story) to the Manhattanite jazz of Thelonious Monk (Dirty Harry), Greglab pays attention to the finest detail in his landscape of sound. A chill out extravaganza? Yes. Anonymous? Most definitely not. Listen and resist sinking deep into its enveloping soundscape at your peril. www.greglab.com Siobhan Long