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- Date Released: September 17, 2002
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Global Groove, Downtempo
- Label: Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL) / InGrooves
The digital duo delves deeper into Brazil, Jamaica and the Middle East
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We Say...
Thievery Corporation's Eric Hilton and Rob Garza began their career spinning dance 12-inches around their native Washington, DC, but they've since spanned the globe in search of sultry samples to exploit and exotic cultures to explore. Following 1997's Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi and 2000's The Mirror Conspiracy, TC delve deeper into the sounds of Brazil, Jamaica and the Middle East, creating computer dreamscapes of smoky melodies, deep dub bass and downtempo rhythms permeated by an air of mystery. As renowned for their remixes as their original music, TC show off mastery of a myriad of styles in the simmering lounge fuzak of "Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes" (with dreamy Italian vocalist Emiliana Torrini), the Fela-like "Liberation Front," and the bossa nova breeze of "My Destiny." The rest of ...Babylon concentrates on reggae/dub romanticism, but the spice is what makes it nice.
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They Say...
Even more similar to its predecessor, The Mirror Conspiracy, than that one was to the first Thievery Corporation LP, The Richest Man in Babylon provides some beat-heavy, languorous excursions into territory long-favored by Thievery Corporation -- namely, the music of Brazil, India, and Jamaica -- but doesn't have the hooks or the production finesse to compete with The Mirror Conspiracy. On the opener, "Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes," guest Emiliana Torrini treasures her vocals endearingly, but the backing could've been taken wholesale from any of a dozen Thievery productions (or perhaps Air's Moon Safari). "The Outernationalist," a bass-heavy trip into ambient-dub headspace, sounds great too, but it also occupies the same territory as a previous track (2000's "Treasure"). Vocalists LouLou and Pam Bricker both return for two features each, practically indistinguishable from their previous tracks. (Of course, it's difficult to resist a bland sound when the bassline for an entire song, "Un Simple Histoire (A Simple Story)," encompasses only four different notes and continues throughout.) Fortunately, a few tracks on the backside do plow new ground, thanks in part to new guests: "Meu Destino (My Destiny)," with the ephemeral falsetto of Patrick de Santos; "Exilio (Exile)," which introduces Afro-Cuban percussion into the Thievery template; and a great feature for Shinehead on "The State of the Union," while Garza and Hilton throw in a few extra beats (for once). Admittedly, a solid set of treading-water productions is vastly preferred to a bad album, especially on the dancefloor. Sure, it could've been worse, but it also could've been slightly different.
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| 01. |  |
Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes |
4:10 |  |
| 02. | |
Facing East |
3:43 | |
| 03. | |
The Outernationalist |
3:30 | |
| 04. | |
Interlude |
1:21 | |
| 05. | |
Omid (Hope) |
3:48 | |
| 06. | |
All That We Perceive |
3:46 | |
| 07. | |
Un Simple Histoire (A Simple History) |
3:45 | |
| 08. | |
Meu Destino (My Destiny) |
3:30 | |
| 09. | |
Exilo (Exile) |
3:03 | |
| 10. | |
From Creation |
4:20 | |
| 11. | |
The Richest Man In Babylon |
3:50 | |
| 12. | |
Liberation Front |
5:04 | |
| 13. | |
The State Of The Union |
4:28 | |
| 14. | |
Until The Morning |
3:57 | |
| 15. | |
Resolution |
4:46 | |
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Credits
- Shinehead - Vocals // Manoochehr Sadeghi - Santur // Eric Hilton - Producer // Chris Pupa Roots Vrenios - Guitar // Howie Weinberg - Mastering // Rick Harris - Horn // Desmond Williams - Bass // Desmond Williams - Guitar // Desmond Williams - Engineer // Bill Crandall - Photography // Jim West - Drums // Thievery Corporation - Main Performer // Thievery Corporation - Main Performer // Harold B. Little - Horn // Wayne Wilentz - Keyboards // Wayne Wilentz - Wurlitzer // Emiliana Torrini - Vocals // Sleepy Wonder - Vocals // Neal Ashby - Design // Pam Bricker - Vocals // Brian Liu - Photography // Frankie Addison - Horn // Javier Miranda - Percussion // Ustad Amir - Sitar // Patrick DeSantos - Vocals // Verny Varela - Flute // Verny Varela - Vocals
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