Era is the project of the French musician and film composer Eric Levi. As with the music of Enigma and Deep Forest, Levi wants to transport the listener to a 'new age'-like dream world by mixing semi-classical music, rock, pop and dance. On the album Reborn we hear Gregorian choir singing, as always, combined with strings, rock guitars, synthesizers and drums or dance beats. For the first time in
… Levi's music, the influence of oriental music can also be heard, for example in the beautiful Arabic-sounding singing solos by Racha Rizk. More than before, the various singers sing in English, instead of in a fantasy language. The track Sinfoni Deo is somewhat inspired by the Ave Maria by the seventeenth-century Italian composer Caccini. (SvdP)more
