Hall Of Sound

Hall Of Sound
Label: vincemusic
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 807135265423
EAN: 0807135265423
ASIN: B0001ZZ900


Release Date: 2004-02-01

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Tracks:

  1. The Drones
  2. African Voices
  3. Nature Boy
  4. The Oracle
  5. Lujon
  6. Balafon Brett
  7. Futurians
  8. Korean Love Curse
  9. A Night In Fez
  10. X Pollinate

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars A Mixed Bag.......2005-11-02

Vince Littleton is a drummer, and this CD features mostly rhythms and percussion. His background is playing with some well know names like Dr. John, John Lee Hooker and J.G.B. to mention a few. He has also collaborated on movie soundtracks and video games. And he teaches drumming.

The promotional material suggests he is similar in sound to Mickey Hart's Planet Drum or Peter Gabriel's Passion. Well, maybe. But to be honest, he has a sound that is all his own, suggestive of primal rhythms, yes, very tribal, encompassing elements of various world traditions. Then there are the movie soundtrack bits, but we will get to that.

He is accompanied on several tracks by the drumming skills of Paulo Baldi, Charles Neal, and Brett Paschal and more. The musical instrumentation includes percussion, synthesizers and piano, flutes, tuba and bass. There are ten tracks on this CD, no playing times are given, and I believe it runs about an hour.

This CD started out strong. I loved the drumming, the tribal rhythms were good, with the beat being slow enough to get up and move without burning you out. The disk takes a turn in the middle however, returns to the focus for one track and then wanders off again.

I found myself losing interest once the mood of the CD changed. I was encouraged to continue with the return to the focus on the Balafon piece, but the mood changed again to Korean Opera, and again I lost interest. I stuck it out, but was disappointed that the CD went in so many different directions without a common thread.

It may be nice to present the listener with a good overview of your abilities, but the variations were so far apart, from tribal influences, to show music, to more tribal, to a montage of sound effects and then it peters out with a rain.

I would like to hear more drumming from this artist. Mr. Littleton presents us with some wonderful rhythms. And because Mr. Littleton does have talent in the "sound track" area, a CD of nothing but this style of music would be interesting as well. But this CD felt like it was running some place, got lost and then ended up being interesting but unfulfilling. mafoster

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  6. Chez Herri Kopter ~ Jerome Miniere
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  9. Tales of the Drum ~ Various Artists
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