Stampede

Stampede Artist: Critters Buggin'
Label: Rope-a-Dope
Category: Music



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


UPC: 616892609223
EAN: 0616892609223
ASIN: B0006OMQMK


Release Date: 2005-04-05

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Listmania:

  1. Diversify your music collection
  2. Top 2004 Albums (in no particular order)

Tracks:

  1. Hojo
  2. Panang
  3. Cloudburst
  4. Sisa Boto
  5. Persephone Under Mars
  6. We Are New People
  7. Toad Garden
  8. Punk Rock Guilt
  9. Nasty Gnostic
  10. Dorothy
  11. Open the Door of Peace

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Seattle-lite.......2006-07-27

This is by far the most listenable album from Critters, but also probably their best.
The band takes on a huge spectrum of sounds making the album an eclectic electronic-acid-rock-funk-jazz whirlwind. Some songs are soft, even emotional, while others have that strong Critters sax+percussion+base. Then there's the last track - all it's missing is George Harrison with a sitar.

5 out of 5 stars Bridging multiple worlds . . ........2005-04-19

. . . improv, electronica, world, funk, lounge to name a few. And doing a dang good job of it.

I'm pretty much blown away by this disc. Mylab, Tucker Martine/Eyvind Kang (who, not surprisingly, mixes string arrangements on three cuts), Miles Gurtu, Nathan Michel, and Garage a Trois--not to mention Fantomas (esp. Delirium Cordia, without the darkness)--come to mind as possible analogs, but these guys have pretty much staked out their own unique territory. One that gets my juices flowing. Big time.

For one thing, there's a great balance between live sounds and post-production effects. Very cool. One almost gets the feeling that this stuff could be played in concert and come across just about as effectively as on this studio disc, despite the amount of processing and fooling around, which, although it definitely enhances things, doesn't overwhelm.

A lot of that's due to the level of true improv, song writing ability, group conversation, and instrumental mastery these guys have risen to since their debut a decade or so ago. From their humble beginnings as just another jazz thrash band, these fellows have become true innovators. Moreover, they've developed a huge cultural reach embracing everything from surf to bossa thrash without blinking an eye.

A disc of immense pleasure and possibility. One of my favorites so far this year.

Music CD:

  1. The Art Of The Trio, Vol. 4 - Back At The Vanguard
  2. Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk ~ Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk
  3. Miles Davis in Europe ~ Miles Davis
  4. Brubeck Time ~ Dave Brubeck
  5. Inside ~ David Sanborn
  6. Aberrations: 1981-1984 ~ Shriekback
  7. The Pop Side ~ Les Baxter
  8. Open Up: Whatcha Gonna Do for the Rest of Your Life? ~ The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  9. Right Now/Latin Fever ~ Herbie Mann
  10. Finger Paintings ~ Earl Klugh

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Hood Has Raised Me ~ Big Dank

Warm and Cool ~ Tom Verlaine

Ohio Grown ~ Ekoostik Hookah

Bill Haley - Greatest Hits ~ Bill Haley & His Comets

Anatomy of an Album ~ Cowboy Junkies

Don't Stop Music

Hey You. Yes You. ~ Ben Lee

Vienna

My Hood ~ Young Jeezy

Throwback/Braggin' and Boastin' ~ Sound Providers