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Silent Poets
Sun
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Theme
2. Dumb Girl
3. Future
4. Next Episode
5. Man On The Street
6. Fate
7. From Earthling
8. Rock Star
9. Sleeping Tiger
10. Wonder
11. Sun

CD Details

All Artists: Silent Poets
Title: Sun
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Nocturne
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 7/18/2006
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop
Styles: Trip-Hop, Acid Jazz, Dance Pop, Pop Rap
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 826596007304

Synopsis

Album Description

A new legacy begins... Six years after the release of To Come..., the new album from Japanese producer Shimoda aka Silent Poets, Sun, has been completed. Utilizing the combined talent of Alain Ho from Paris, Shawn Lee (Talking Loun) and Everton Nelson (string/Bjork arranger) from London, the next chapter in Silent Poets' music is released worldwide from France's poussez! label and Nocturne Records. Recorded during the last summer in London, the new Silent Poets album is a brilliant down tempo/trip hop gem to file between Massive Attack with a string orchestra in London, conducted by Everton Nelson, accompanied by the bewitching voice of Shawn Lee, and delicate aesthetic and timeless production by Shimoda and Alain Ho.

CD Reviews

Well I guess I'll be the first...

4RillaGorilla | 01/10/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"3.5 stars, more accurately. I got this album on sale from a recently defunct international music retailer (RIP) after I heard Silent Poets' nasty, nasty remix track on DJ Vadim's USSR Reconstruction album. Whereas that song was pure hip-hop, Sun offers a variety of different feels ranging from the classical-sounding intro and outro to some hip-hop-ish beats to the slightly more experimental and harder to classify stuff that could be filed under "downtempo" or "electronica" or something. Some tracks are instrumentals, some have vocalists (some funky singers mostly, I think), so the range and style of content on this album could be compared to Boozoo Bajou's Dust My Broom or DJ Krush's Zen, if that helps you. By this I mean that thematic consistency takes a back seat to experimentation and sampling of sounds. This album held my interest for a while but wasn't quite solid or cohesive enough to keep me reaching for it weeks later. Give me a few more months and I might pop it back in the deck for a spin or two, however, because I'm left with a generally favorable impression of Sun. Definitely talented production and some funky and pretty songs."