Grand Assets liquidations, Recycle excess surplus equipment liquidator, for inventory, Estate liquidating Going out of business plus Corporate Asset recovery & items at Auction. Producers: India Arie, Kevin Haywood, Blue Miller, Bob Power, Mark Batson.Įngineers: Mike Tocci, Kevin Haywood, Avery Johnson. A singer songwriter, producer and musician, her 2001 debut offering Acoustic Soul broke the mould for female R&B singers at the time. Wonderful (Stevie Wonder Dedication) - (bonus track)Īcoustic Soul Album Notes Personnel includes: India Arie (vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, percussion) Bob Power (conductor) Blue Miller (acoustic & electrc guitars, programming) Marlene Rice, Kelly Hall-Tompkins (violin) Judeth Insel-Stack (viola) John Catchings, Nioka Workman (cello) Mark Batson (celeste, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards, synthesizer, drums, percussion, programming) Larry Goldings (Wurlitzer piano, organ) Tony Harrell (keyboards) Avery Johnson, Doug Kahan (bass) Steve Grossman (drums, percussion) Abe Fogle, Ralph Rolle (drums) Dave Spak, Terry MacMillan, Bashiri Johnson (percussion) Carlos Broady (programming) Kerisha Hicks, Tony Harrington, Joyce Simpson, Duane Covert (background vocals). IndiaArie originally released Acoustic Soul on Maon the Motown Records label.ġ6. My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore is track 2 - Video. While this entire CD is really very good some of my favorites are track 4 - Brown Skin, track 7 - Back To The Middle, and track 16 - Wonderful Really sensational from beginning to end. One of those CDs that after a few listens the songs are just etched into your memory. Overall Acoustic Soul is excellent from beginning to end.
This CD is certainly one of those rare CDs. These days its a very rare CD on which every single song is good or better than the one before it. AWESOME! This CD literally grabs your attention right from the very first note with Video and doesn't let go until the very last note of the very last song Wonderful, which by the way is another great track.
However, I think the song selection tended to take the place of a score and made the film sound like an episode of CSI: Miami rather than a large budget feature film.One word describes the CD Acoustic Soul from IndiaArie. I think the soundtrack release is a good representation of the music from Miami Vice, and fans of that will be happy with this album. The three score tracks by different composers ( John Murphy, Klaus Badelt and Mark Baston) are little different from the instrumental rock songs and changing the composer of a film for different scenes is not the best way to create a consistent sound for the film. Emilio Estefan's rerecording of Mandy Moore's "In My Pocket" is the only song that succeeds at mixing the edgy feel with the Latin-set film. Some of the Miami Vice songs fit the feel of the film, such as the new cover of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight," by Nonpoint, which adds percussion and electric guitars to the song for a harsher feel. A number of other songs are remixes that contain bits of previously recorded songs or are instrumental with some amount of vocals, such as those by Blue Foundation, King Britt, and Nina Simone.Īt least in Daredevil, the songs were a consistant genre. Instrumental tracks by groups such as Mogwai, Moby, and Freaky Chakra do not work the same as a score. I am not saying that the film should have used Jan Hammer's "Miami Vice" theme, but some unifying music could have helped the film. This collection is comprised of a number of remixes, re-recordings, or mainly instrumental songs that took the place of a film score. However, the idea of this song was used quite a bit in the rest of the song selection. Most noticeable is the lack of the Linkin Park/Jay-Z song "Numb/Encore" that was used in the trailers and also the beginning of the film.
Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. The soundtrack tries hard to be both edgy and Latin, but this gives it an eclectic feel that makes it sound like a random selection of songs rather than the soundtrack to a single film. 'Etched Headplate' by Burial sampled India.Aries 'Ready for Love'. However, the question remains as to whether the song selection is right for the film. The small amount of score in the film, which includes cues by both John Murphy and Klaus Badelt, is also represented on the album, making for an accurate soundtrack to the film. I have recommended your service to my whole list as well. However, Miami Vice does not fall under the category of "Music Inspired by the Film" since Michael Mann's film used most of the songs on the soundtrack in the film itself. It allows me to have a nice, professional-looking signature on all my blog posts, which truely enhances the look. I normally have very little interest in compilation song soundtracks, with a few exceptions, such as Daredevil.