Buddha-Bar, Vol. II (2000)

About this title: Claude Challe's Buddha-Bar, Vol. II compilation has elements of Far Eastern spirituality, African song, European electronica and Spanish spice. The first album, Buddha-Bar, is very mellow for the most part. Deepak Chopra and Demi Moore, far and away the most recognizable names on the album, do a spoken word ditty on love and self-worth. People who are not fans of new age doctrine will appreciate artists such as Oliver Shanti and Consuelo Luz, both of whom contribute songs that manage to sound musical, spiritual and ethnic at once. The second album varies from hallucinatory to groovy to fairly ... read more

Tracks:

1. Need You (Right Now) [Ambient Mix] [Matthewman/Routh]
2. I Love You [Isikkut]
3. Los Bilbilicos (The Nightingales) [Traditional]
4. Ali Baba [Karunesh]
5. Desire (The Lover's Passion)/Do You Love Me/Come to Me/Desire [Chopra/Plack/Deyhim]
6. In Through Time [O'Madden]
7. Onòn Mweng [Shanti]
8. Spirit [Atman]
9. Funky for You [Space Hopper Original Mix] [Day/Stanley]
10. Mambo Craze [Extended Version] [Appleton/Baumgartne]
11. Amor Amor [Taïeb]
12. Smell of Paradise [Eli/De Galloy]
13. Farrúca [Sotomayoy/Sotomayor]
14. Nota Bossa [Whitehouse/Danks/Wh]
15. How Insensitive [Original Mix] [Jobim/Carlos/Gimbel]
16. Daydreaming [Duvoisin/Reyes-Cort]
17. A Loop in Time [Banco de Gaia Remix] [Brill/Malavsky]
18. Drama of Japan [Sotomayor]
19. Cairo [Duke Monster Mix] [Harilyn]
20. Tears Inshalla (Ya Salam) [Ochion]
21. After [dZihan/Kamien]
22. Felicidade [DeMoraes/Jobim]
23. Logozo [Blair/Benavides]
24. Escravos de Jos [Robust Horns Mix] [Nascimento]
25. The String Thing [Fiddy/Burdson/Hutto]
26. New World [Ingall/Greenhough]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.