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- Artist: David Visan
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- Release Date: February 12, 2002
- Type: Mix-album
- Genre: Electronica
Review
The Buddha Bar series has become a band name by now, and Buddha Bar, Vol. 4 does nothing to break the new tradition. Compiled by David Visan, the two-CD set is divided into "Dinner" and "Drink." The former is definitely music for the consumption of comestibles, pleasant and polite with exotic touches of world music, like Nitin Sawhney's "Moonrise" or Gotan Project's revolution of the tango with "Una Musical Brutal," but they're the mildest examples of the artists' output, never pushing themselves forward, but providing a backdrop for food and civilized conversation. "Drink" fares a little better, but has traces of anonymity -- Time Passing with "Party People," for example, or Chris Spheeris and "Dancing With The Muse" could both come from a modern TV ad -- although its less afraid of imposing itself, with the delightful Panjabi Mc, whose track is gleefully annoying, and Loving Paris, who offer "Loco," which is exactly that. Egyptian heartthrob Amr Diab comes across as glossier than usual in this setting, while salsa diva Celia Cruz contributing a version of "I Will Survive" is one of the musical standouts -- the song translates surprisingly well to her genre. Still, it's a disc without rhyme or reason, and bizarrely sequenced, with little sense of movement, just a random bunch of tracks slung together without a great deal of thought. Overall, a moderate success only. ~ Chris Nickson, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| La Fille de Pékin | (3:09) | ||
| Tibet (A Passage To...) | (5:12) | ||
| (Opium) | (3:27) | ||
| Moonrise | Cheb Mami, Nitin Sawhney | Nitin Sawhney | (4:44) |
| A Window of My Dreams | Tomaso Albinoni | (4:01) | |
| Amatevi | Agricantus | Agricantus | (4:37) |
| Tiempo | (4:47) | ||
| Historia de un Amor | Guadalupe Pineda | (3:19) | |
| Distant Lands | (5:43) | ||
| Desert Dancer [Zeb's Slow Camel Ride Remix] | Nickodemus | Nickodemus | (6:05) |
| Monsoon | (5:35) | ||
| Rahda Ramana [#] | (5:03) | ||
| Tora to Thimithikes | (3:39) | ||
| Una Musica Brutal | Gotan Project | (4:11) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Karma [Extended Mix] | (4:26) | ||
| Party People | (4:52) | ||
| Mundian to Bach Ke | Panjabi MC | (3:45) | |
| Comme Toi | Jean-Jacques Goldman | (4:08) | |
| Dancing With the Muse | Chris Spheeris | Chris Spheeris | (5:46) |
| Irish Coffee | (4:09) | ||
| The Novel Sound | (5:57) | ||
| Loco | (3:12) | ||
| Percussion's Rhythm [Dimitri from Paris Re-Edit] | (3:07) | ||
| Louxor in Vegas | (4:04) | ||
| Agoraki Mou | (3:57) | ||
| Aktar Waged | Amr Diab | (4:11) | |
| Yo Viviré (I Will Survive) | Celia Cruz | (4:24) | |
| Nocturne in Paris [#] | (4:14) |
