| Detroit Illharmonic Symphony / Street Testimony |
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| Album: | Street Testimony | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Detroit Illharmonic Symphony | Added: | Sep 2003 | |
| Label: | Independent | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-02-16 | Pull Date: | 2004-04-19 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 11 | Apr 4 | Mar 28 | Mar 21 | Mar 14 | Mar 7 | Feb 29 | Feb 22 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 30, 2006: | Not Storytime Shalaam, Return to the South Bronx | 4. | Oct 19, 2004: | Storytime! Rainy Park Avenue Evening | |
| 2. | Jul 07, 2005: | SubbingForBaptism I Don't Have to Believe It I | 5. | Oct 12, 2004: | Storytime! Galerie Des Fantomes | |
| 3. | Dec 14, 2004: | Storytime! Return to the South Bronx | 6. | Oct 11, 2004: | Not the City Council! The Revolution Will Be Bumpi |
| Album Review |
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| Mandy Khoshnevisan Reviewed 2004-02-09 | ||
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The Detroit Illharmonic Symphony: Street Testimony 10-piece orchestra with a DJ. Dark, city-hip-hop influenced pieces with about equal balance between acoustic instruments, electric instruments, and samples/scratches/beats/etc. Also some world music influences mixed in, and some political stuff. A lot of the titles are directly evocative of the city and its moods. The titles are very descriptive of the tracks. Play any and all of them. *1. (2:42) wandering, dark strings and grooving bass, w/harsh, echoing vocal samples and a beat. *2. (3:25) piano, scratches, acoustic guitar, busy percussion (ratchet, etc); layers add. 3. (0:30) Carnivalistic, expectant; with sampled voice from an animal documentary 4. (2:22) Noisy, busy, scratchy, voices repeating It’s all over with El Presidente (and some Bush samples) 5. (3:10) Loungy funky soul, with spacey echoes and falsetto vocals; piano 6. (1:00) Slow eerie waltz, with harsh synth strings (fittingly called UFOs in the Park) 7. (1:29) FCC!—”motherfucker.” Slinky strings, with sudden harsh percussion and Black Panther speech samples *8. (2:43) Asian influenced, with heavy scratches (instrumental) *9. (2:28) Middle-Eastern—Jewish meets Arabic. Midtempo but wild; short rapped refrain calling for peace in the middle east! *10. (1:32) Loungy funky, with cool laidback xylophone melody. Ends suddenly 11. (0:42) A light 6/8 busy piano tune—indeed snowy sounding and wistful *12. (1:28) quacks prominently featured. awright. A satire of hip hop? Funny but groovin’ too. *13. (1:58) Three movements in under 2 minutes! Eerie, metallic, pretty, string-heavy, nostalgic, pieces about ghosts 14. (1:21) An orchestra satire? Ponderous piano with birdcalls and funny percussion *15. (3:00) Ominously bumpin. Scratches, heavy low piano, chimes, rappin’ about the revolution and dissin’ Bush. “you make me wanna throw a brick at you.” *16. (2:39) loud percussion and vocal samples with obliviously warm string quartet *17. (2:14) Slinky dark strings, jungle percussion and handclaps —reviewed by mandy (la chanteuse) | ||
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