If it is not actually anchored in Ambitionsspektrum of artists and musicians to transcend his limits and to make distant tangible? Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, with its Thievery Corporation regulars on each Easy Listening Compilation á la Ministry of Sound, cars with "The man richest in Babylon" a giant step in the individuality and thus in the big wide world, they have their musical focus away from Latin samba and bossa influences a little enlarged and discovered also the Asian region itself. Of course, that implies not unfortunately natural that you will no longer be found on a number of compilations, but at the same time, that maybe people whose musical Curiosity is outside of Ibiza's most famous café, the Thievery Corporation spendieren an ear. "The Richest Man in Babylon" actually seems a little resigned and "downbeatiger" than the previous album "The Mirror Conspiracy", on which one still largely resided music in Brazil. A lot of it is what we are hearing, it is still gedubt diligently and looped, but with far more substance than you would expect, just with many more guest musicians than ever before: Emiliana Torrini, Icelander on the Björk Label and musically quite compare with her, lending her voice to the very nice (tomorrow) sunny and warm songs "Heaven's gonna burn your eyes" and "Until The Morning" and frames the album so in philosophical thought to fear and internal insulation ("do you applaud fear, do you hold it near? Are you afraid to live your life the ? way I perceive in my arms I'll catch you (...) "), while the texts of the remaining songs these thoughts mostly to political and secular levels transpose (eg in Omid (Hope):" Day by day people get sick of one another, day by day people chase eachother away. I chose solitude for I lost faith in my world, "sung in Farsi, in the booklet translated into English) Actually, the paragraph's already enough to justify "The Richest Man in Babylon" as a separate album that does not really seem to claim to be the perfect companion for the plump snobby cocktail lounge; Too bad that same place, much of the audience of men Hilton and Garza located. Actually, the album seems to this audience to explain the subliminal image of the enemy. A lounge band is politically? Let's hear more: "State of the Union", for example, with vocal ragga support of Sleepy Wonder and Shine Head, can be regarded as one of the core pieces of the album. "The people live in misery (...) why do not you treat them the way you Should? " Subliminally authoritarian systems socially neglected (likely to Third World) countries are accused in every song in a way that sung on Brazilian or Portuguese ("Meo Destino"), there English to Spanish ("Exilio") and, of course, also French ("un histoire simple"). In the foreground, however, still stands, and that must be clearly stated, the music, and which is sometimes unfortunately a bit bland because the Corporation has remained its old style in spite of all innovations loyal, is to say, laid back and chilled it is still, the synths buzz brightly bright and cosmopolitan through space, the beat is always concise and catchy, in some songs you can hear musical accompaniment from around the world. Unfortunately, it remains on long haul somewhat monotonous, variety, there are only sporadic, danceable which is even less or not at all. In principle really ideal background music, as well as the political claim of the album is so subtly hidden in the background. So I vacillate between four and five stars, decide eventually but for the really beautiful supplied booklet (actually already a small book) with high-quality black and white photographs of people in parts of the world, who are outside the perception of our Western world, for highest rating. Melancholic and thoughtful one takes on these images, to push at the end of a well b / w Portrait of the men Hilton and Garza. You close the circle and bring us this world a little closer, and so they do their job as a musician and artist.