Life Begins Again
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Artist: Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
Label: Sanctuary
Category: Music
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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5050159034024
ASIN: B0006OL5YK |
Life Begins Again
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Tracks:
- Streetcrawler - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin
- Life Begins Again - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin, Rob Dickinson
- P.S.A. - Jimmy Chamberlin
- Loki Cat - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin, Paul Chamberlin, Billy Corgan
- Cranes of Prey - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin
- Love Is Real - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin, Rob Dickinson, Corey Wilton
- Owed to Darryl - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin
- Newerwaves - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin
- Time Shift - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin, Corey Wilton
- Lullabye to Children - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin, Bill Medley, Linda Strawberry
- Loki Cat (Reprise) - Jimmy Chamberlin, Jimmy Chamberlin
Album Details
Solo Debut from the Ex-smashing Pumpkin. Features Guest Vocals by Billy Corgan, Catherine Wheel Frontman Rob Dickinson and the Legendary Bill Medley.
Customer Reviews:
"Life" begins again.......2005-04-11
Jimmy Chamberlin spent years as one of the shadowy, talented musicians who backed Billy Corgan in the Smashing Pumpkins. What has Chamberlin been doing since Corgan's second band Zwan broke up in 2003? Apparently crafting a remarkably good solo debut with a new band: the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex's "Life Begins Again." It seems to have begun again for Chamberlin, anyway.
Anyone expecting the panoramic hard rock of the Pumpkins is going to be disappointed, because it is nowhere to be found. Chamberlin's sound is more of a complex, jazzy art rock sound, heavy on the drums guitars, and brimming over with prog-rock vibes. It's a kind of music that I haven't heard before, especially since it strikes such a good balance between the rock instrumentation and jazz rhythms.
In a few songs, it sounds like Chamberlin and Co. are just jamming around, not sure what to play exactly -- it's interesting, but not nearly as tight as the other instrumentals. They are at their best when combining assured drumming, shifting guitar riffs and lustrous sonics, including a wonderfully weird Rhodes solo in the middle of jamming.
Chamberlin hasn't totally left behind his musical past -- there are still ties to the Pumpkins here. Ex-bandmate Billy Corgan sings in the spooky "Loki Cat," and he also puts his formidable bass-playing skills to use. And Rob Dickinson of Catherine Wheel provides creepy vocals to the title song, sounding like someone calmly descending into an abyss. It's hard not to get the shivers listening to this.
But the centerpiece of the album is Chamberlin's own skills -- most importantly, his drumming. Songs like "Streetcrawler" are basically Chamberlin's drumming, dressed up in shifting and/or floaty guitars. "Life Begins Again" occasionally lacks musical direction, but it certainly doesn't lack polish or enthusiasm.
Music Album:
- On the Night
- 3rd Warning (3è Avertissement) ~ Miriodor
- Hybrid Beat ~ Kombinat M
- Play Me Out ~ Glenn Hughes
- Anxious Color ~ The Painted Faces
- Not For The Faint Of Heart ~ Jason Morphew
- And Again ~ Slepcy
- Nova Akropola ~ Laibach
- Carcassonne ~ Stephan Eicher
- Love Is Here ~ Starsailor
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50 Tracks in One Day With One Hour for Lunch, Of Course ~ Benny Goodman & the Rhythm Makers Orch
On the Fast Track ~ Gerald Veasley
Bird's Night (The Music of Charlie Parker) ~ Various Artists
Solo Flight ~ Charlie Christian
Nelson Mandela AIDS Concert: African Prayer ~ Various Artists
Ajrú ~ Mercedes Peon
Starlight ~ Elektrofunk
L' Uomo Occidentale ~ Edoardo Bennato
Antidoto ~ Anna Vissi
Esta Siempre Vivo ~ Carlos Gardel