For Barbara Lee

Seekonk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 18, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kimchee Records
• ASIN: B0000DZ3EQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #579,881 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Sadheel.com, November 2003

"The songs are simply beautiful and inspiring. The giant atmospheres and tender feelings "For Barbara Lee" creates are gorgeous."

Product Description

Seekonk makes music that is sad and warm and wise. It is music designed for the listening room, particularly the inner one you always carry around with you, bustling with that ever-present dialogue. It helps quiet things down in there.

Seekonk is five players from Portland, Maine who like to try different instruments on for size, including a cello, trombone, xylophone, and bowed amplified birdcage. The band began as a result of two guys getting dumped hard by their sweethearts within weeks of each other. Songs happened. Then they asked a girl who lived on an island to sing these songs for them. Makes sense somehow.

Some have said Seekonk reminds them of other bands like Pink Floyd, Low, The Velvet Underground, and Neil Young. Seekonk is not averse to being called a "head" band. Their debut album For Barbara Lee sounds particularly lovely in the here and now. And yet it has an ageless quality. That's a pretty neat trick.

Here indeed is music as inviting as any you might hold dear.

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Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Evocative enough for the soul, ambient enough for work, August 16, 2006

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Peter Sipes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: For Barbara Lee (Audio CD)

After hearing the samples, I made this the first CD I've bought for myself in two or three years. I was a bit nervous: so many commercial CDs have two good songs and 8 fillers.

I shouldn't've been nervous. This is independent music, free from big label demands for hits and air play. This disk is filled with music that can make you both melancholy and hopeful at the same time. But what's better is that I can take this to work and listen. To be sure, to get the full effect you do need to listen closely, but it's dreamy music that works its magic even when you can't pay full attention.

It's funny what music can do, if only you take a chance.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If you like "Hate the Sun", hesitate on the rest, April 14, 2008

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Shannon Wenker (Baltiore, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: For Barbara Lee (Audio CD)

I bought this CD after becoming hopelessly addicted to "Hate the Sun". Sadly, none of the other songs on this CD are anything at all like that song - they practically sound like they came out of a completely different band. I love the hypnotic, experimental, and almost malicious quality of that one song, and I was really looking forward to an album full of interesting and experimental music. Sadly, every single other track is a pretty bland, sleepy folk-style stuff that I've really just heard a hundred times before. It's decent background music, I suppose. I really wish I'd just bought that one song, though.