This surprising entry from another member of the cast of Babylon 5 is impossible to pin down. One moment, the backing tracks are thumping club music, and a few minutes later, the music takes on an austere, hymnal tone. And on the next song, we’re treated to a dreamy heavy-music, light-voice tune along the lines of Julee Cruise’s style. No two songs are alike. Highlights include the exotic-sounding Izawe, the aforementioned Julee Cruise-esque “Two Tickets To Anywhere”, the amusing rap “Not Your Way”, and the unique multilingual “Children’s Song”. My one complaint: “Dreaming”, which opens and closes the album, is far too long and repetitive, though if I had to listen to one version or the other, it would be the closing version, over which Mira delivers a rapid-fire succession of her “favorite thingz” (the track’s subtitle). The songs jump in and out of several languages, including English and Mira’s native Yugoslavian, and many of the tunes have a distinctly exotic feel. I’ll say this: Claudia Christian can sing about threesomes all she likes, but Mira Furlan’s voice is much sexier, and she’s singing about mice and squirrels.
The album also has a PC-compatible multimedia component, in which we supposedly get to look at the “movies that have never been made” in the form of short music videos.
- Dreaming (5:20)
- Izawe (3:09)
- Feo Bajondo (5:29)
- Travelling (3:28)
- Not Your Way (3:28)
- The Sea More (1:17)
- 17 Names of Marduk (5:08)
- The Children’s Song (3:43)
- Ugom (2:36)
- Fear of Love (3:25)
- Dreaming (My Favorite Thingz) (5:15)
Released by: Infinite Visions
Release date: 1998
Total running time: 40:01