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 | Title : Electric Circus
Author : Common
Release Date : 20021210
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Rock & roll has grabbed Common by the neck and given him a good shake. With its heavy, multilayered sound, Electric Circus is steeped in the Chicago-born and Brooklyn-based rapper’s newfound love for Pink Floyd, Traffic, and, above all, Jimi Hendrix. But, like many new converts to anything, Common goes a little off the deep end. His ambitious quest to expand the boundaries of hip-hop is crammed to the gills with a thousand motifs and is a little too busy to be a complete success. Perhaps not surprisingly, Common’s rhymes (sample lyric: 'my mind screams like Al Green to stay together!') take a distant second place to the complex musical landscape he’s fashioned. In addition, a sidereal array of vocalists (including Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, Mary J. Blige, Jill Scott, Cee-Lo, Bilal, and Common’s main squeeze, Erykah Badu) and musicians (Prince, Bobbi Humphrey, Nicholas Payton) add to the sonic density. All in all, Electric Circus mightn’t strike the universal chord that Common sought, but it’s a bold, elaborate project that's definitely worth a listen.
Buyer Reviews :
On Common's 5th album 'The Electric Circus,' which serves as a mixture of Jazz and 70's Hard Rock influences ranging from Jimi Hendrix, ACDC, and Pink Floyd. Common attempts to experiment and elevate his sound with a majority of the work handled by the production team of ?uestlove, James Poyser, and Jay Dee. The same group of talented individual's who have done excellent work for The Roots, Slum Village, and Erykah Badu. Create a beautiful musical atmosphere sort of similar to the 70's Miles Davis album's such as 'On The Corner.' Common paints the stories so clear and effectively, covering thought provoking issues of child abuse and death, on 'Between Me, You & Liberation.' To the Be-Bop influenced 'I am music' featuring Jill Scott, or confessing honest emotion to a special woman on the Neptunes produced Mary J. Blige sung hook of 'Come Close.' Common's vivid truth in his lyrical depictions can be quite similar to Marvin Gaye and Donny Hathaway, two legendary artists who only got better with age. But Common has created a stunning piece that will hopefully open people up to other genres of music, and change the mostly stagnant state of Hip-Hop music for the better.
(by rhys rivera)
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