Cor Finjeman featuring Anita Kelsey - Healing
In Trance We Trust
Catalogue Number: ITWT 364
A: Vocal mix
B: Instrumental
In Trance we Trust, that we do, and why not considering some of the quality releases
over the years, bigger than big, last years Fictivision vs. C-Quence, Mesh's Purple
Haze and harking back to the golden age, Tukan's - Light a rainbow, to mention just a
few of the immense back catalogue of one of Holland's finest and long established
trance labels.
For number 364, The big Dutchman is Cor Finjeman is back! Well he never really went
too far away to be honest, however, putting remix duties to one side we're given a
slice of original Fijneman producition with 'Healing'. Very much on a vocal trance
tip with Anita Kelsey, who quite frankly throughout the track doesn't set herself
aside from any of the other middle of the road vocalists employed on euro trance
records of past or present it has to be said. Nonetheless it isn't awful, it's just
rather obvious in the sense that it doesn't offer anything new to the table. It is
also debatable whether it brings all that much to the instrumental backing, which on
the flip side you have in all it's glory. For the more discerning amongst this will
be the side to head for. The cheese of the line 'now that the healings done, we can
be any place on earth, we can live under the sun' isn't exactly poetry in motion. It'd
be a struggle not to use the word 'clichéd', far be it from me not to do so though.
So in terms of looking beyond the vocal, what do we get for our money. Set over an
extremely chunky and chugging, yet typically Cor drum track, 'Healing' in the instrumental
incarnation is a bit of a groover with a euphoric yet seemingly tamed lead riff, tamed
in the sense that it never really completely soars off into hedonistic spaces which will
push the average trance fans senses into euphoric overdrive. Not even a hint at a hair on
the back of the neck will stand. The riff itself is to me fairly reminiscent of that of his
mix of the massive Black Hole release, Ton T.B's Electronic Malfunction, which in terms
of appeal has a lot more going for it than 'Healing'. That said, it would appear I’m being
extremely harsh on a track that doesn't actually strive to be anything it's not, it's played
by the book and it's certainly not an untouchable record, you could play it out to semi
excitement inducing reaction, that is a distinct possibility, but at the end of the day it
stands to be nothing less than a bit of middle of the box, set filling fodder.
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Review by Xalno
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