- Audio CD (Aug 1 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Compost
- ASIN: B00005IB7O
- Other Editions: LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Stay A While |
| 2. Unexpected Days |
| 3. Prema Redentor |
| 4. Thin |
| 5. Shaken |
| 6. Lay Down |
| 7. So Blue It's Black |
| 8. Under Your Sky |
| 9. 68 Moves |
| 10. Comin Home |
| 11. Bird Song |
| 12. In Between |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
In the fickle world of dance music, a year between the completion of an album and its release is often enough to sink a project. Thankfully with Under Your Sky Professor Stretch and Ned Kelly have managed to weather a storm which has seen them to the eventual surfacing of this, their debut long-player. The album itself, recorded in a farmhouse studio in Bedfordshire, is nothing if not ambitious with the pair stating a desire to create something timeless at the original press round. To all intents and purposes, they have succeeded with the drum & bass roots still evident within Under Your Sky but making a sideways shift to a unique sound which is closer to Omar than Optical. There is something for everyone here, championed right across the board--from Bukem to Peterson--the street-soul feel is as accessible as it is enjoyable with the occasional forages into breakbeat supplemented by some stunning vocal tracks cowritten with accomplished American singer/songwriter Jeb Lee Nichols. --Kingsley Marshall
Album Description
New album from renowned leaders of the nu-jazz movement. Features guest vocalists Madeline Edgebill of all-girl reggae band ACABU & members of African Head Charge. 2001 release.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
extraordinarily disappointing...,
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This review is from: Under Your Sky (Audio CD)
i came across underwolves through the rather intriguing remix of 'birdsong' found on compost record's 'future sound of jazz 8.' i dug it, and wanted to find out more about this group. i found out that their full-length was released on the jazzanova-compost label, i read the reviews on this very page, heard a couple select samples, and was convinced that this record needed to find its way into my collection. after just one listen, it was clear how wrong i was. i shouldn't have brought this record anywhere near my collection, and it won't remain a part of it for long. the beats aren't inspiring-- drum n' bass by the numbers, for the most part. and most tracks are needlessly saddled with vocal production that seems an uncomely relic of a bygone age. backed by the appropriately goofy music (where for art thou, deee-lite?), the vocals would perhaps be more appropriate; at the very least, not irritating, which would be a vast improvement over what we've got here. in the current context they're just (and there is no other word for this) cheesy. and, yes, i mean that in a bad way here. so, the album fails to impress from start to finish, although it should be said that this failure does not stem from lack of ambition. underwolves tries to pack as much as they can into this disc. and there are some wonderful albums out there that are made more beautiful by the willingness to mix and match influences, tropes, and ideas-- to put things together in a way that no one's ever heard before. the luke vibert/bj cole disc comes to mind. or john zorn's naked city, right? great albums. but then there are some attempts to mix genres that just make you cover your ears, wrinkle your nose, and say "ewwwwww." these are sad sad records. and the strange thing about these records, the good and the bad, is that there's very little way of telling what will work and what won't from hearing it described. you've likely got to hear the finished product. but truly, when you mix together house and reggae vocals, andrew hill samples, old drum n' bass rhythms, acoustic guitars, alt.country sensibilities, and the bombay symphony orchestra you've got one of those sad sad records. worse, you've got an absolute bloody mess of a record. you've also got the underwolves "under your sky." and all this, given all that this record could have had going for it, is, like i've mentioned in the title above, extraordinarily disappointing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning buy it now,
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This review is from: Under Your Sky (Audio CD)
Great album, I first got this on a blue promo back in 1999 and it took ages to get its full release, well worth the wait. I remember the band doing a session for British DJ Gilles Peterson three years ago when they were previewing these tracks! Unexpected Days, Bird Song and So Blue It's Black are up there with the very best of nu-jazz. Go and get it!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning buy it now,
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This review is from: Under Your Sky (Audio CD)
Great album, I first got this on a blue promo back in 1999 and it took ages to get its full release, well worth the wait. I remember the band doing a session for British DJ Gilles Peterson three years ago when they were previewing these tracks! Unexpected Days, Bird Song and So Blue It's Black are up there with the very best of nu-jazz. Go and get it!
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