Best By Far

Label: Phantom Sound & Visi
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 800508000423
EAN: 0800508000423
ASIN: B00005242M

Release Date: 2000-11-14

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An Essensual Relaxation
eclectic soul and funk cats
Eclectic vibrations for those who know soul
The REAL men of music ( in no particular order)
Neo Soul picks
NOT JUST ANOTHER CHILL-OUT COMP LIST...
Us And UK Neo Soul -You'll be playing these for weeks
THE BEST UK SOUL AROUND
Top New School Male Soul Singers (no particular order)
STANK!! (avante-garde urban sonics for the new illa milla)

Tracks:

I Guess
Something Real
Essensual
Be Thankful
Best By Far
To The Top
Goodness
Prologue
Tell Me
Syleste
Come On (Duet With Kele LeRoc)
Emporium
In The Morning
Syleste (Lounge Lizzard Mix)

Customer Reviews:

best bar none!.......2002-03-05

played it from jersey city, nj to miami beach, fl and beyond. cooling out beach sounds and memory making music for me an my girls on our summer road trip. omar's voice is smooth and sensual. all the tracks are uplifting yet melancholy. a favorite!!

best bar none!.......2002-03-05

very lounge-y.......2001-10-10

maybe i've not been following omar as closely as i should've since i was first turned onto him in 97, but i was a little dismayed to find out that he'd gone lounge. although as a musician i'll admit, it's fun to get schmaltzy, i have to say it already sounds dated. fortunately, the whole track isn't like that. the tune with erykah badu on it - 'gangster whitewalls' or whatever - could've been so much more. if you're gonna redo a song, then put a new spin on it. unfortunately it never even tops the original, which grooves but is repetetive.

a couple of standout tracks on it, but too much lounge for me.

ONE OF THE BEST.......2001-10-04

Omar's vocals, fused with a sense of chill that he and his team have put together,have put re-established another form of soul.Unlike some of his contempories,Omar does shirk the flagrant use of synths and samples but utlises these in such a manner as to amalgate 60's/70's funky soul with more contemporary pace and beats.The best example- 'something real'is spectacular because it incorporates well-known two-step beat with funky hip-hop sound against classic soul vocals.'Come On' with Kele Le Roc emphasises that Omar can also remain full soulful as well.It is hard to understand,why he is still relatively unknown, yet comes out with such breathtaking music.

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