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"The world may seem ... a little foreign to you...just like a dream."
"L'amore si trova nel mondo certo non lo sento in mezzo questi rumori"

This album is a continuation of excellence from the producers of the Filmharmonix label. Nigel MacLean and Martin Elepans have created an inspiring collection of all original songs containing lush ballads seductively sung by Kate Ceberano and Chantal Mitvalsky and artfully accompanied on piano by Joe Chindamo with a 26 piece string orchestra led by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Wilma Smith.

With international talents like David Hirschfelder accompanying operatic stars Roger Lemke and Carmel Parente, the music transports the listener through a film-like world of Django inspired big band arrangements and futuristic flavours.

Filmharmonix are committed and passionate about refining a new sound with their original music by developing and nurturing a methodology of working vocals and instruments in with orchestral settings.

"What an inspiring dance along the boulevard. The music is melodic and witty, ever swinging, a continuous dialogue, like "Jules et Jim" in motion. Is this the sunshine equivalent of Miles Davis' Paris night mood Ascenseur pour l'echafaud? MacLean and Elepans must be the Lords of the Strings."
    Ken Williams (Music Critic, The Age)

Produced in 2000 by Nigel MacLean. Recorded by Tony Cameron at Specimen Gully Studios, Barkers Creek, Victoria using solar power and Neumann mics direct to Adat.

Julie O’Hara - vocals, Peter Baylor - guitar, Nigel MacLean - violin/vocals, Peter Knight - rhythm guitar/trumpet, Craig Fermanis - guitar, Andy Ross - double bass, Jackson McQuade - guitar/vocal on “Slow Boat”.

“Swinging jazz, easy to enjoy” - Adrian Jackson, Rhythms Magazine
“A superlative album, elegant and eloquent, peppy and propulsive” - The Age EG, 18/5/2001
“Blue Drag have captured the timeless essence of the Thirties and Forties era” - Beat Magazine