Track Listing

1. Absence Heard Presence Felt
2. An Announcement To Answer
3. Blow In Your Horn - Quantic & Ohmega Watts
4. Bomb In A Trumpet Factory
5. Politick Society - Quantic & Noelle Scraggs
6. Meet Me At The Pomegranate Tree
7. Sabor - Quantic & Tempo
8. Ticket To Know Where - Quantic & Ohmega Watts
9. Tell It Like You Mean It

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51344 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-24
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
There's something about Will 'Quantic' Holland's canny blend of live musicianship and studio trickery that leaves a very desirable taste in the mouth. The textures, sounds and contours that make up this latest project by the leader of the Quantic Soul Orchestra - his eighth to date - ooze from the speakers with a satisfying fluidity, like melted chocolate squeezed slowly through a piping bag. Like most of his musical cakes to date, the songs on An Announcement…are baked from a range of elements: afro-beat, hip hop and Latino, to funk, house and jazz - even drum & bass and techno, albeit diluted to fit the mix. Many tunes were written and recorded during travels in Puerto Rico, Nigeria, Ghana and Ethiopia, lending the album an authentic 'world music' quality' compounded by additional layers of liquid bass and toughened beats, plus vocals from Noelle Scaggs and rapper Ohmega Watts. Knowing, global and undeniably slick, it's this kind of effort that puts Quantic on a par with leading worldbeat luminaries like the Thievery Corporation and Boozoo Bajou. --Paul Sullivan

Customer Reviews

An answer to what?
I'm not too sure about the style of this album being coherent as a whole. I prefered the mix of song styles in the other albums. I don't really like the constant latin/hip-hop etc/jazz style. All Will's other Quantic albums have had more electronic elements in them, along with the jazz etc mixed in, and this one seems to lack that for me, apart from in "Tell It Like You Mean It".
The sound seems quite messy in each song, therefore making it less relaxing. I guess I was just waiting for an answer that resembles that of the great "The 5th Exotic" album, and "Apricot Morning". But I should get used to it.

More of the same from Will Holland - and that's good news.
Okay, I'll admit, there's really nothing new about the latest LP from Quantic but, to quote a great proverb, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Every track here is laced with that timeless, placeless sound that is so unique to Will Holland's music, and it all adds up to such a beautiful whole, that the parts don't need to be progressive or different from what he has done before. In fact, it'd surely be a disappointment if Quantic did change style.

Buying a new Quanitc album is like buying the same bottle of wine you've had a dozen times before. Quite simply, you know you can count on it.

Where's the Beef?
Got all Quantic and QSO stuff. I was all built up for something with serious grooves but all I hear is same old same old with a bit of passe world music chucked on top. There is some fantastic music out there these days and Will you are not keeping up.