A unique collaboration between acclaimed classical tenor and composer David Hobson and multi-award winning film composer David Hirschfelder. Utilising a wide palette of musical colours with themes Inspired by the philosophies of mythologist Joseph Campbell 'Inside This Room' is a rich aural experience that deepens on repeated hearings. Defying categorisation here are some reviewers description of the album.THE CANBERRA TIMES:'........ INSIDE THIS ROOM is a bold genre hopping creation that seamlessly meldsHobson's dramatic vocals and unique songwriting talents withHirschfelder's unsurpassed feel for film and pop composition.It was in 1998 that the two Davids finally merged their studio setups, symbolically drawing together their threads of musical inventioninto the colourful musical tapestry that became INSIDE THIS ROOM.A sophisticated melange of world beat, epic cinematic arrangements andhi-tech sampling, the resultant album is a constantly shifting,dynamic song cycle that's difficult to pin down. World opera? Newmillennial folk? As with all mysteries, the words let us down'.And Mike Daly from the Melbourne AGE:'......... INSIDE THIS ROOM isan exhilarating recording that embraces world, pop, classical and folkinfluences and must have presented pop and dance-oriented MushroomRecords with a daunting promotional task when they took ondistribution. The opening blend of drums, sampled tribal chants andHobson's high tenor rendition of 'Going Home' (Dvorak's folk-based'New World' symphony theme) is spectacular. From here, we dart to allpoints of a musical compass too complex to do full justice here.Spoken samples of philosopher Joseph Campbell provide a springboardfor Hirschfelder's wall-to-wall scoring on several tracks, reminiscentat times of Phillip Glass and at others, involving Indian ragarhythms. On the gorgeous 'Last Night' (one of my favorites [yes,that's how THE AGE spells it]) Paul Kelly's mournful lyric is in thebest romantic folk tradition, while the final 'Sin I Byal' is agrandiose, multi-layered expansion on a Bulgarian theme. Every trackthrows up new and exciting sounds on this spectacular CD - one of thebest I've heard all year!'