Wubbenhorst, John & Facing Eat / Facing Beloved
| Album: | Facing Beloved | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Wubbenhorst, John & Facing Eat | Added: | Jun 2003 | |
| Label: | Facing East Productions | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2003-09-01 | Pull Date: | 2003-11-03 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
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| Week Ending: | Nov 2 | Oct 19 | Oct 12 | Oct 5 | Sep 28 | Sep 21 | Sep 7 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 18, 2009: | Music Casserole
Celebration Continuous |
4. | Oct 11, 2003: | Morning Glory
Continuous Celebration |
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| 2. | Oct 27, 2003: | told ya so!
Celebration Continuous |
5. | Sep 29, 2003: | Fly By Night
Prelude for Debby |
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| 3. | Oct 18, 2003: | Morning Glory
Infectuoso Groovatissimo |
6. | Sep 27, 2003: | Morning Glory
Infectuoso Groovatissimo |
Album Review
Mandy Khoshnevisan
Reviewed 2003-09-25
Reviewed 2003-09-25
John Wubbenhorst and Facing East: Facing Beloved
Traditional Indian instruments plus bass and guitar. Evokes incense and yoga. Reminds me of the soundtrack to a sweeping Imax film at times. Which means it’s pretty and dramatic and evocative of lush landscapes. And has great percussion. The style varies in flavor between songs, from traditional Indian to Celtic sounding to jazzy Latin. The overall sound is smooth and meditative, and each individual track is content to hold its own groove out. All tracks are nice.
1. (6:37) instrumentation builds slowly; flutes and lots of percussion, later guitar, sitar droning in the background, rolling tempo with complicated rhythm
2. (3:51) dark, droning, under pondering fretless bass. It’s an intro to the next track
*3. (10:05) awesome crazy vocal percussion. Also dark and meandering, but with complicated percussion and flute and guitar over.
*4. (1:35) rainforest sounding; misty and slow, with breathy flute and guitar harmonics and rainstick sounds.
*5. (2:18) tiny flutes cascading with soft clicky percussion. Sounds kind of celtic.
*6. (7:26) Irish jig tempo, with driving strummy guitar under dancing flute and violin; and tapping percussion. misty and hurried
7. (3:40) dronings under arrhythmic breathy flute meditations
*8. (8:40) groovy cool Latiny jazz feel; quick tempo, lots of beats on percussion and guitar; groovy flute
9. (1:05) a reading of an essay on “Truth and Religion”; it’s the author’s voice, with people in the background sighing and moaning in agreement
10. (15:33) long, sparse, serene. parts of the melody are a quotation from Bach. Starts out with breathy flute solo; about 4 minutes in, enter percussion. It has extended percussion solos by the two percussionists.
*11. (7:04) same vein as the first track—slowly building instrumentation and complex rhythms, but with emphasis on funky bass soloing.
---reviewed by mandy (la chanteuse)
Traditional Indian instruments plus bass and guitar. Evokes incense and yoga. Reminds me of the soundtrack to a sweeping Imax film at times. Which means it’s pretty and dramatic and evocative of lush landscapes. And has great percussion. The style varies in flavor between songs, from traditional Indian to Celtic sounding to jazzy Latin. The overall sound is smooth and meditative, and each individual track is content to hold its own groove out. All tracks are nice.
1. (6:37) instrumentation builds slowly; flutes and lots of percussion, later guitar, sitar droning in the background, rolling tempo with complicated rhythm
2. (3:51) dark, droning, under pondering fretless bass. It’s an intro to the next track
*3. (10:05) awesome crazy vocal percussion. Also dark and meandering, but with complicated percussion and flute and guitar over.
*4. (1:35) rainforest sounding; misty and slow, with breathy flute and guitar harmonics and rainstick sounds.
*5. (2:18) tiny flutes cascading with soft clicky percussion. Sounds kind of celtic.
*6. (7:26) Irish jig tempo, with driving strummy guitar under dancing flute and violin; and tapping percussion. misty and hurried
7. (3:40) dronings under arrhythmic breathy flute meditations
*8. (8:40) groovy cool Latiny jazz feel; quick tempo, lots of beats on percussion and guitar; groovy flute
9. (1:05) a reading of an essay on “Truth and Religion”; it’s the author’s voice, with people in the background sighing and moaning in agreement
10. (15:33) long, sparse, serene. parts of the melody are a quotation from Bach. Starts out with breathy flute solo; about 4 minutes in, enter percussion. It has extended percussion solos by the two percussionists.
*11. (7:04) same vein as the first track—slowly building instrumentation and complex rhythms, but with emphasis on funky bass soloing.
---reviewed by mandy (la chanteuse)
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