Buddha-Bar

by Claude Challe

Buddha-Bar cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1999-01-01
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: France
  • Length: 2:26:37
  • Community rating: 3.1/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The first Buddha-Bar compilation, selected by Claude Challe for the Paris restaurant and bar of the same name. Its sequencing of downtempo, lounge and world music defined the luxury chill-out compilation format that spread worldwide at the decade's end.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, repetitive, sampling, synthesizers, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Need You (Right Now) (Ambient Mix) (4:28)
  2. I Love You (7:39)
  3. Los Bilbilicos (The Nightingales) (5:40)
  4. Alibaba (7:40)
  5. Desire (5:22)
  6. In Through Time (3:43)
  7. On貌n Mweng (Rainbird) (5:03)
  8. Spirit (4:36)
  9. Funky For You (Space Hopper Original Mix) (5:30)
  10. Mambo Craze (Extended Version) (4:20)
  11. Amor Amor (3:47)
  12. Smell Of Paradise (3:20)
  13. Farruca (5:19)
  14. Notabossa (6:02)
  15. How Insensitive (Original Mix) (7:26)
  16. Daydreaming (4:45)
  17. A Loop In Time (Banco De Gaia Remix) (6:02)
  18. Drama Of Japan (6:11)
  19. Cairo (Duke Monster Mix) (7:19)
  20. Inshalla (Ya Salam) (4:33)
  21. After (6:37)
  22. Felicidade (4:11)
  23. Logozo (6:09)
  24. Escravos De Jo (Robust Horns Mix) (7:04)
  25. The String Thing (5:55)
  26. New World (7:56)

Credits

  • Adam Routh - keyboards, written-by
  • Gordon Matthewman - trumpet, written-by
  • Omar Faruk Tekbilek - arranged by
  • Oliver Shanti - composed by, arranged by, lyrics by
  • Paolo Nascimento - keyboards [additional keyboard]
  • Momi Ochion - written-by, arranged by, edited by

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