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4 Strings
TURN IT AROUND
(Ultra)
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From the Netherlands comes this debut CD by the duet (Jan Loechel and C. Resoort, writing and orchestrating) responsible for "Take Me Away," last year’s most transcendent "trance" hit. This CD too is made up almost entirely of transcendent trance, songs rich with melodrama (the torrid, throbby "Crash and Burn"), dreamy rushes ("Turn It Around," "Dolphins Cry," "Back to Basics," "Until You Love Me"), and the definitive celebration, "Euphoric Eyes," which is sung deliriously by a dreamgirl speeding forward (and up, up, and away) atop Resoort’s rockabilly-like electronic orchestrations. Add in a few echoes of late 1980s Belgian techno ("Love Is Blind") and Yaz’s 1983 hit "Situation (All Around the World)" — sure sources for trance’s world of fast flying rhythms and wintry tempest settings — and you’ve got a sugar-sweet, racy, rocket blast of passion that never strays from its very narrow flight path to ecstasy, Eurodisco style. Not that Giorgio Moroder, Cerrone, and Kano 25 years ago (and Elton John 30 years ago, with "Rocket Man") didn’t do, or find a voice for, almost everything that 4 Strings do; and they did it with equal transcendence, and much more profound daring.
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