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Music : Radio Retaliation |
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0795103014022
Label: Eighteenth Street
Manufacturer: Eighteenth Street
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Eighteenth Street
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Studio: Eighteenth Street
Sales Rank: 386
MPN: 140
Disc 1:- Sound the Alarm
- Mandala
- Radio Retaliation
- Vampires
- Hare Krsna
- El Pueblo Unido
- The Forgotten People
- 33 Degree
- Beautiful Drug
- Le Femme Parallel
- Retaliation Suite
- The Numbers Game
- The Shining Path
- Blasting Through the City
- Sweet Tides
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Album Description:
Internationally acclaimed artists Thievery Corporation release their 5th studio album entitled Radio Retaliation on ESL Music. With Radio Retaliation Thievery Corporation raise the bar with a new cast of musical collaborators including; Nigeria's afro-beat heir Femi Kuti, Brazilian star vocalist and guitarist Seu Jorge, Indian sitar virtuoso Anushka Shankar, Slovakian chanteuse and violinist Jana Andevska, and Washington DC's own go-go originator Chuck Brown. Also returning are long time co-conspirators Sleepy Wonder, LouLou, Notch, Zee, and Verny Varela.
Amazon.com:
It's ironic that a band with its musical head so firmly in the clouds thinks so much about what’s happening down here on Terra Firma. Yet, that’s what Thievery Corporation's Radio Retaliation is all about. The musical approach is the same; just as they have on releases like 2005's The Cosmic Game, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton still bring the dub-oriented beats, silky textures, world musicology and outer spacescapes. And while Thievery Corp have always been tuned into the strange currents and impulses of the now, words have never been so central to their work. Femi Kuti lets loose on Africa's long, sad history of oppression on "Vampires" while Seu Jorge preaches the gospel of peace on "Hare Krisna." Both those tracks are killers, but the record has a way of topping itself. In the midst of all the charged slogans and lullaby charm (listen to LouLou's Gallic flow on "Le Femme Parallel" for an example of the latter), Garza and Hilton will drop a celestial bomb like the painfully gorgeous "The Shining Path." So, while there's no missing how politically engaged they are (the liner notes include relevant words of wisdom from a range of open minds including Einstein, John Lee Hooker and Mos Def), Thievery Corp can still send you floating into the ether. --Matthew Cooke
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I am a die hard TC fan and have seen them live multiple times, this album is NOT GOOD AT ALL, period. It builds off what they have learned and created in the last ten years but THEN WHAT???? Nothing. Nothing new, more dub rapping, sittar riffs and... what else? It is a lazy effort at best, as if they were partying for the last two years and then realized its time to make a new album. In addition, whats with the crappy packaging?? these guys need to fire their marketing dept because it is just the ... Read More
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it no "Sounds Fromt Thievery Hifi" or "DJ Kicks" but not a clunker like Abductions and Reconstructions".About on par with "Mirror Conspiracy".They don't re-invent their wheel here by any means but it grooves.Little more of that "Tower Of Power" lite here with usual sitars and drum grooves from Brazil,Africa,Jamaica,India.Again not a re-invention by any means.Definitely more political lyrics as you might expect from the cover art.Worth picking up but I thought an MP3 for $5 was bargain compared with ... Read More
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This sounds allright, but really it is just a pleasant throwaway. It's a retread of all their other albums with nothing new to offer whatsoever. Same ole "chill out" style that had its heyday almost a decade ago now.
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Wow. I haven't been this excited about an album for a long time...at least an album in this current decade. I guess I am a little jaded about music because I was at one time surrounded by the classics and soon-to-be classics but this new recording by Thievery Corporation sends out a message to the listener's spirit; be new, be present, be open to the possibilities that are contained in this present.
Last night (November 4, 2008) proved to my soul that changes are taking place. There will ... Read More
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An impeccable taste of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, they operate out of their Eighteenth Street Lounge club, marrying diverse beats with a parade of impressive left-field guest artists.
Thievery Corporation once again raises the bar with their incendiary and eagerly anticipated fifth independent studio album Radio Retaliation. Along with longtime microphone co-conspirators like Sleepy Wonder, Lou Lou, and Notch the outernational DJ and production duo are joined this time by a new cast of musical ... Read More
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