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| | Artist : Tommy Guerrero | |
| | Album : From the Soil To the Soul | |
| | Label : Quannum Source : CD (LP) | |
| | Cat. No. : QP071CD Size : 68 MB | |
| ª Genre : Lo-Fi StrDate: 2006-00-00 ª |
ª _ Quality : 213kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2006-10-16 _ ª
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| | 2006 release from one of Quannum's newest artist, Tommy Guerrero. | |
| | He's not new to the music scene, bringing an upbeat production | |
| | featuring guest vocals labelmate Lyrics Born, Curumin, and Bing | |
| | Ji Ling. | |
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| | Because former skateboarder Tommy Guerrero is influenced by his | |
| | native San Francisco (his records often reference the city), his | |
| | new home at Quannum Records, who released his fourth full-length, | |
| | From the Soil to the Soul, is quite fitting. There's a smooth | |
| | West Coast vibe that runs through the entire album, from the | |
| | Pacific sun-soaked opener, "Hello Again," to the light traffic | |
| | and urban noise on "Mission Flats," to the nearly rocking "Let Me | |
| | in Let Me Out," featuring the melodic rapping of labelmate Lyrics | |
| | Born. But From the Soil to the Soul is also darker than anything | |
| | Guerrero has made before, with heavy basslines that drive the | |
| | songs along, funky and warm in "War No More" and "Badder Than | |
| | Bullets" and somber and intense in "Tomorrow's Goodbye" and | |
| | "Molotov Telegram," the latter sounding like it should be used in | |
| | a Grand Theft Auto-type video game. Guerrero has become quite | |
| | adept at layering all the various elements in his music without | |
| | overwhelming it, allowing space -- both within the chords and | |
| | riffs themselves and between them -- to contribute to the overall | |
| | feel of the record as much as the actual instrumentation does. | |
| | Funk-based guitar lines play over each other while the keyboard | |
| | chimes in appropriately, "No Guns More Glory" brings in a Hammond | |
| | B-3, and "Just Ain't Me," which has Guerrero himself singing, | |
| | "Whatever you want from me, I can never give," over and over, | |
| | uses a Quantic-style string loop and a lot of cymbal. It's | |
| | laid-back yet focused, a satisfying combination that produces a | |
| | nice sense of continuity within the album, so that even though, | |
| | by the end, the songs do seem to blend into one another (offset | |
| | by the occasional vocal track, including a great Brazilian lounge | |
| | one by Curumin), there's nothing boring about it at all. Instead | |
| | it's a well-composed entity, more complicated -- or at least less | |
| | breezy and sunny -- than Guerrero's other solo work while still | |
| | retaining his individuality and sound, which makes From the Soil | |
| | to the Soul a very listenable release, the kind of thing you'd | |
| | want to have in the background as you hang out with your friends | |
| | and talk about the best show you ever saw at Bottom of the Hill. | |
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| | Tracklisting: | |
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| | 01. Hello Again 1:05 | |
| | 02. The Under Dog 3:01 | |
| | 03. Badder Than Bullets 3:11 | |
| | 04. Tomorrow's Goodbye 3:26 | |
| | 05. No Guns More Glory 3:29 | |
| | 06. War No More 3:37 | |
| | 07. Salve 3:03 | |
| | 08. Mission Flats 1:30 | |
| | 09. 1966 3:26 | |
| | 10. Don't Fake It 3:35 | |
| | 11. Just Ain't Me 3:26 | |
| | 12. Create And Destroy 2:32 | |
| | 13. Let Me In Let Me Out 2:41 | |
| | 14. Molotov Telegram 3:02 | |
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