Mea Culpa, by Ron Boots

Mea Culpa

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	1.	Mea Culpa I 19:09
	2.	08:00 Sunday Morning 09:59
	3.	The Roses in my Life 09:04
	4.	Mea Culpa II 14:24
	5.	For Does 09:46
	6.	Quick Silver 06:01
	7.	"The Roses in My Life" instrumental 06:57

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Dutch musician Ron Boots is back only a few months after his last release with Mea Culpa.

The two-part title track is fantastic. The 19-minute first part opens the disc with electronic twitters and deep space sounds, followed by a slowly meandering bass line. Bright sequencing appears a couple minutes into it, joined shortly by a synth lead line and gently shuffling percussion. Drums eventually join in, and then a new synth solo takes over as the drums grow stronger. A key change a minute later cranks it up another notch. A couple minutes more, and the mood calms just a bit before building back up again to the end. I like pretty much everything about this track.
The 14-minute "Mea Culpa II" appears later on, and it is every bit as good. The percussion is crisp, reminiscent of Tangerine Dream’s classic "Thru Metamorphic Rocks" from Force Majeure. A steady bass pulse lends a dramatic feel, and the synths are understated but highly effective. It continues to slowly build, all the while staying in a cool groove. This great one-two punch makes up nearly 34 of the album’s 75 minutes.
Other strong tracks include the mellow dreamy "08:00 Sunday Morning," which serves as an excellent contrast to "Mea Culpa I". The excellent synth solo here reminds me of vintage Klaus Schulze. Drums and female choirs fill out the sound nicely.
Speaking of female choirs, they abound in "Quick Silver," the most energetic track on the disc. Credit is given here to Voices of Passion, a virtual instrument of female vocal samples from five different countries. My only complaint about Boots, one of my favorite EM artists, is his insistence on singing on a track on some of his albums in recent years. To his credit though, this time he offers an instrumental version of "The Roses in My Life" as a bonus track at the end.

This is Ron’s best album since Close, but not touching.

2009. Phil Derby / Electroambientspace

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