Track Listing

1. Conceptions
2. Time
3. Golden Solitude
4. Twothesme
5. Another Day
6. Hold It Down
7. Unique
8. Something Nothing
9. Ways Of Thought
10. Eight
11. Twelve Tribes
12. 2-Bs-74638
13. Les Fleur
14. The Day Of The Greys
15. 2000 Black

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80833 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 78 minutes

Customer Reviews

Mostly Unlistenable
If it's experimental ambient jazz electronica that you're after, buy this.

I bought it on the strength of 'Les Fleur', a beautiful song and one of the best on the album, uplifting in the same way as 'Mr. Blue Sky' by E.L.O.

Sadly, most of the rest varies from difficult, to experiemental, to unlistenable. Spoken word nonsense over bog-standard electronica and strings, cheap-sounding casio beats, meaningless vocals and an underwhelming vocal appearance from Jill Scott. Much of this sounds like it should be the soundtrack to a Playstation game, perhaps a racing one.

Avoid this, and download 'Les Fleur' instead.

This is good - don't listen to this other guy
I'll admit, this album is a little hard to get into, although there are a few tracks that make the album worthwhile straightaway. Songs to mention would be the opener 'conceptions', also 'time', 'another day'. The other reviewer mentioned the song 'les fleur', which is an outstanding song and i really like it, yet it's far from an original. It is in fact a carbon copy of a song by Minnie Ripperton probably recorded way back in the late sixties. This album features some excellent collaborations with some great vocalists, notably Ursula Rucker and Carina Anderson who have apperared on other 4hero records.

I think that from the example of the other reviewer it is maybe a bad idea to buy a whole album from hearing one song, as it can sometimes result in disappointment (I have been guilty of this a few times). However, i'd also say that you shouldn't strike an album off just because it wasn't what you expected. 'Les fleur' is certainly not a good song to judge the album, it's rather alien if anything hence the later placement in the tracklisting.

This album requires patience as many of the gems to be found have long intros, which is maybe why the previous reviewer missed the point. Perhaps try somewhere else if you want to experience 4hero for the first time; this album is not 4hero's finest album, far from it, and it is a shame that it came after the ground breaking 'Two Pages'.

Basically, if you like 4hero, then you'll like (most of) this.