Vuvuzela chillout album set to top chart this weekend

AFTER A month of wall-to-wall publicity the new Vuvuzela Moods album is set to hit the top of the charts this weekend and spark a craze for music based on the popular South African instrument.
Vuvuzela Moods 5, which features 18 pop classics played on the distinctive chilled-out sounds of the vuvuzela, was meant to appeal mainly to housewives wanting to relax in a candle-lit bath, but has captured the nation’s imagination.

“To be fair I’m delighted,” said the album’s producer Kent Schweppes. “You can’t go to a dinner party or into a supermarket without hearing our Orinoco Blow, our vuvuzela version of Enya’s Orinoco Flow.”
Other tracks included on the popular collection include Horn in the USA, Blowin’ A Large Plastic Horn in the Wind and Paaaaarrrrpppplife, while Norman Cook’s big beat remix of Screetch Out, I’ll Be There is the club hit of the summer in Ibiza.
One factor that has powered the collection into the public consciousness is a now-iconic advert, which had only previously been appreciated by students for the collections’ volumes 1-4.


DJ ' Slammin' Lammers ’ voiceover has become a familiar catchphrase at parties all around the country: “Sit back and relax,” he intones, “light up a joss stick and enjoy 40 chilled-out classics on Vuvuzela Moods 5. Bliss out to pop hits given new life through the haunting and beautiful tones of the vuvuzela.”
While the album has proved popular with the public the critics have been less kind. The Times’ Pete Paphides drew attention to the lack of variey, saying “it seems to be a single note throughout” while the BBC’s World Music expert Andy Kershaw described it as “too tuneful”.