Pure electronic music with influences from Jarre to Kraftwerk. The smooth vocoded vocals are just perfect and never get too much.The best tracks are in your eyes and electric poetry , the later is a clear tribute to kraftwerks autobahn. This album is one of the best electro pop albums i have heard for many years. Get it now , put the headphones on a drift.
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A Blue Ocean Dream is a solo project from Owe Emfestav. The album “Electric” contains eleven electronic cool synth pop songs. No song sticks out more than another. But it’s well produced and its quite good. 

Thou I normally listen to harder electronic music I think that this is really good. 

This is an album for you who like calm electronic pop. Many different noise and sounds in a great electronic composition. I can see myself sit in a warm and cosy armchair with a blanket reading a good book with ABOD in the background. There is no doubt about that his work is inspired both by Kraftwerk and Jean-Michel Jarre but he is doing it good. It is quite obvious on “Show you my love my love” and “The time”, which happens to be the two best songs on the album 

/Niclas Sandén / moving hands
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A Blue Ocean Dream - Electric

This is the second album for ABOD, following "The Sea" which was released in 2002. While that album was primarily instrumental, all the songs on this album include vocals this time around. The project is the results of Owe Emfastau's musical efforts since the late 70's and is a direct result of him moving away from straight techno into a more pop-friendly musical setting.

The music was all composed using software synths, but I would have never have known it had I not read the band's website. The analogue sounds used here sound almost perfectly like they were created with hardware synths - you'll probably not even be able to tell the difference.

While the lyrics may seem a little lacking in depth at times, in instances where that seems to be true I find that they serve more to reinforce the overall atmosphere of the song more than anything else. And this cd certainly has a lot of atmospheric qualities to it. It's easy to see how the first cd produced by ABOD was a more ambient leaning disc, as those influences are still present and noticeable here. That being the case, it's a little hard to point out one song over the other, as the whole album overall seems to flow from one song to another quite seamlessly. I thought "Hello Japan", "In Orbit" and "Show You My Love" were all very good songs, but could say the same about nearly all the other songs on this disc. While it's a tad short at just under 40 minutes, it's still a very impressive sophomore release from the project. ABOD is a project that fans of bands such as B! Machine owe it to themselves to check out.. a very enjoyable band that is getting better with time!


Added: Thursday, July 29, 2004
Reviewer: Jason Baker (Synthpop.net, 700 reviews)
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