Worlds Apart [Remixes] by Blue Stone (Electronica)

Blue Stone (Electronica): Robert Smith (various instruments, programming). Personnel: Sheyenne Rivers (vocals); Robert J. Smith (programming). Audio Mixer: Robert J. Smith. The ambient-electronica team is joined by a trio of female singers in this set of ethereal pieces, where their breathy, wraithlike vocals intone over delicate, achingly slow synthesized sound montages. Blue Stone is a duo consisting of producers Robert Smith and Bill Walters, who have pooled their instrumental, programming and production talents to create an album of dark and dreamy electronica that also draws on analog percussion and a variety of funk and club-based grooves. Worlds Apart also features the singing of three female vocalists, who sing (and whisper) in a variety of languages, and if this is all starting to sound a bit familiar, you're right: the end result is close to that of Enigma, except without all the moustache-twirling sex talk. Every track is pleasant, but those that rise above pleasantry tend to be the ones that ...