I bought this album when it first came out early this year, on the strength
of the reviews, and when I got it in the mail it had a big sticker on the
front quoting these reviews again, however after listening to it I was not
impressed at all, there is only one good track, and it's instrumental, there
could have been other good ones but I felt the vocals really detracted from
all the others..... and it just reminded me again that you always take your
chances when you trust the critics, I believe there are many of them who
will give positive reviews to material they don't like personally, just
because they think it could be labeled "innovative" and they want to be the
ones who spotted the innovators, or some kind of twisted logic like that....
actually if anyone here is interested I'd be happy to sell them my CD copy
of it for $10 postage included (inside the US)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Costantino Amici" <barrysonjonn@katamail.com>
To: "MailingList Acid Jazz" <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 7:34 PM
Subject: MING
> Andy Keep and vocalist Jokate Benson created a MASTERPIECE.
> You could say :"Why have we never heard of them ???"
> Well, the worth of this album is in inverse proportion to the band fame.
> In my long career of obscure LPs hunting, I have found few records with no
> tracks to discard.
> (I have collected 2.000 albums since 1974, from Beatles to Hancock to
Joni
> Mitchell to nowaday trip-hip-dum'nChill-nuJazz'nSoul-fish'nChip)
> "RED" by MING is one of them !
> MING have roused my jaded enthusiasm ...
> Their lack of renown is an artistic injustice....(like most other
> exceptionally good albums!)
> Andy Keep goes beyond mere musical fads and fashions ....
> He's not just another trendy DJ-programmer-remixer.
> He is simply a gifted songwriter, able to write timeless eternal
melodies...
> Jokate Benson's voice, is perfect for this strange musical atmospheres
and
> smart electronic-arrangiaments.
> Sure, all digital sounds, but handled tastefully, to please also the
> elettro-acustic maniacs.
> To help you to understand the contents of this album, I could say "ala"
> Bjork, "ala" Moloko, "ala" Hefner, but this record is different and, in my
> opinion, on a higher level.
> I hope there will be a new MING album soon and to see their name be
> proclamed a little bit more.
>
> Costantino
> barrysonjonn@katamail.com
>
>
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