Track Listing

1. Criança Das Ondas feat. Flora Purim & Airto Moreira
2. Western Sunrise feat. Andy Bey & Muneer B. Fennell
3. A Hard Night´s Day
4. Fenytola feat. Doug Carn
5. Goodbye Tony Hello Timmy (Interlude)
6. A New Beginning feat. Cècile Verny & Gary Barone
7. Planet Birth feat. Andy Bey
8. O Preguiçoso
9. Wewa
10. Peace Of Mind
11. Let It Flee feat. Dean Bowman & Ray Obiedo
12. Bubblin` Jam feat. Ray Obiedo & Doug Carn
13. A Hard Night´s Day (Reprise)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #149761 in Music
• Released on: 2004-06-21
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Compost Returns To Form
After reading a number of rave reviews of this album in various magazines such as SNC, I have to admit to being a bit disappointed when I first heard it. However, given a couple of listens, the quality of the songs, together with the class of the contributors and the production, begins to shine through, and I would now easily consider it to be up there as one of my albums of the year (Troubleman being another contender). With any luck, Andy Bey's limited back catalogue will also receive a timely sales boost on the back of this record.

OK but not great
There's a couple of good tracks on this, but sadly nothing memorable, or paticularly groovable

Everything you've ever loved and more...
There is just a wonderful set of organic grooves coming out of Germany this year and this is arguably the best, others that deserve an honourable mention are the efforts by Deyampert and Beanfield. The Compost sound has just been given a new direction from these lads.

Imagine you are a couple of ordinary lads based in a town in Southern Germany heavily influenced by the various jazzy flavours of the 70's and somehow you manage to pull of an amazing coup of heavyweight artists from that era! Well here we have it and from the opener "Crianca Das Ondas" which has both Airto and Flora Purim to the finale "A hard night's day (reprise) you will be taken on a journey across brazilian influenced jazz, soul-jazz, funk and afrobeat. This really is a monumental piece of music and will definitely still be playing in years to come. With luminaries such as Airto and Flora, Doug Carn and Andy Bey you could be almost guaranteed a winner but this only works because the sound is so great and that the luminaries that took part in the making of this CD really felt the music. Amazingly there is some electronic work but it blends in so well with the overall sound that you could be excused for missing it. I can imagine many others wanting to produce an album in a similar vein especially when the finished article works as well as it does here.

If you're familiar with any of Andy Bey's work with Gary Bartz then you will be surprised to hear him sound just as fresh on "Western Sunrise". There really isn't a dull moment on this CD and even though I am an avid collector of music I know this will still be playing constantly in the coming years.