African Skies

• Artist: David & Diane Arkenstone
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• Release Date: August 26, 2003
• Genre: New Age

Review

This installment in David and Diane Arkenstone's Adventure Cargo series travels to the plains of Africa for inspiration. Inspiration is an important word. African Skies only uses the continent as a guide, accentuating the typical contemporary instrumental palette of surging synths and vaguely ethnic electronic percussion with African vocalists and minor nods to indigenous instrumentation. This approach posits the four pieces here somewhere between the Arkenstones' usual name-brand output and soundtrack music for the next globe-hopping Tomb Raider film. Cuts like "Safari on the Serengeti" and "Voices in the Jungle" are evocative, to be sure. But their African influence should be taken at face value. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
The River Winds Thru the Night		Diane Arkenstone	(14:45)
Safari on the Serengeti		Diane Arkenstone	(15:28)
Voices in the Jungle		Diane Arkenstone	(13:32)
Horizon of Stars		Diane Arkenstone	(15:42)

Credits

Michael Page (Art Direction), David Arkenstone (Mixing), Michael Aarvold (Mixing), David Arkenstone (Producer), Tamara Holcomb (Illustrations), Diane Arkenstone (Producer)

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