The trait of this music that I enjoyed is that the music's rhythmic flow is tight. You won't find very many places (if any) that are out of sync.

When I think of a New Age music "tight rhythms" is not the first thing that comes to mind but I was constantly made aware of his excellent awareness of rhythm on every track. Before you listen to Louis as with any performer that you have read a review on you base your listening time on what was said in that review, and if you think its worth giving that music your time.

It's no different for me, I am given a short description of the music, which I base an assumption on that disc on what I have heard before. So why does this long exposition have anything to do with the music of Louis Lamp? My expectations were exceeded by this disc. Sure, after the first minute of the disc I could tell this guy had talent but the rest of the disc more than confirmed my original belief. I simply stopped what I was doing at my computer and sat back and started dreaming! Yes, dreaming. This disc was magical in its ability to make me just want to relax and take it easy (even though I had three deadlines to meet and a meeting to get ready for)..

I thought about recording this CD to my reel to reel and playing it backwards and count how many times the word "relax" was used..Maybe next week I'll actually do this because something must have been added to this disc to make someone like me "relax". Though the style throughout this disc is nice the songs that are mainly composed of vibes became a bit repetitive. Those songs began to sound to much alike and I would have loved to hear a few variations, maybe even the addition of a few other instruments to break up that feeling of repetition. I noticed a picture of him playing a violin on his website and actually anticipated this additional instrument during my listening session. Maybe a future release will allow him to explore additional instruments. Having said that, this disc could easily be plugged in as a good movie sound track because the songs have a great visual presence, with a solid reoccurring theme (even if this theme reoccurred more then it should).

As a stand alone collection of songs the CD begins to get a bit repetitive but it never got to the point of being an issue. To wrap this one up, its hard to beat Louis Lamp in his approach, its solid. "An Open Mind" relaxes, energizes, and entertains. So go open your Mind...

Note: I was told that a copy of this CD was sent to the founder of EvO:R and his daughter became an instant fan. She took the CD to school (11th grader) and her friends where equally excited about the CD. So this CD reaches more then the fans of the relaxation genre..Carrera

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