Acquiescent Resonance

Rather than representing a further step in Pacifici's evolution, Acquiescent Resonance (Dance Plant, 1998) marks a regression to the lounge-music of his early days. Electronic dance beats pretend to modernize Dreams In Green and Acquiescent Resonance, but this is old-fashioned easy-listening. More vigorous incursions into fusion-jazz (It's Gotta Have Soul) and funk-rock (Shadow Lands) go nowhere. The Awakening boasts a solemn melody and haunting arrangements, and Perc-U-Later boasts a puzzling polyrhythmic base, but little else stands out. The hip-hoppish See Beyond could be an instrumental base discarded by Madonna. The tracks are lengthy and lush, but their content is minimal.