Blue Eyed in the Red Room

Boom Bip | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 8, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lex Records
• ASIN: B0007D4MP4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,549 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cimple

2. The Move

3. Do's and Dont's -featuring Gruff Rhys

4. Girl Toy

5. Dumb Day

6. Eyelashings

7. Soft & Open

8. One Eye Round the Warm Corner

9. Aplomb

10. The Matter (of Our Discussion) -featuring Nina Nastasia

Editorial Reviews

2005 CD from the Cincinnati based hip-hop artist.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strong advice, December 5, 2005

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Fofifa "doc-tt" (Mar Vista, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Blue Eyed in the Red Room (Audio CD)

If you are anything like me, and I believe there are quite a few listeners who have similar patterns to mine, I strongly advise you to listen to this cd more than once.

I was already a huge fan of another Boom Bip effort "Seed to Sun". Then, when I first heard "Blue Eyed in the Red Room", I was quite disappointed. It didn't seem bad, just mediocre. However, since I know that occasionally I am wrong about a CD on the first listen, I gave this one another chance. Boy, am I glad I did. It is now one of my favorite CDs, and it just keeps growing in stature.

If you've come to this from Boom's other CDs, give it more than one listen - it is very different from his other stuff, and I think at least equally great. It gets under your skin when you least pay attention to it, in an ambient sort of way. I love the way the songs develop. Someone claims it takes Boom too long to develop the melodic line, but I disagree. I think the trick is not to listen to it up front, but more like an ambient record (think Eno)... at which point the development is just about perfectly paced.

Highly recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite releases of the new year., April 11, 2005

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JD (Mississippi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Eyed in the Red Room (Audio CD)

Kind of electronic album I can list to over and over . . . songs are unique and have the spatial quality one finds in avant-garde jazz. Full of intense and interesting sounds but always very free, never too dense.

My reviews aren't that good, but this album deserved another 5 so it is getting one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gone are the samples, the static and the noise..., April 7, 2005

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Port Royal Sound (Port Royal, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Eyed in the Red Room (Audio CD)

Those wishing to pigeonhole Boom Bip (Bryan Hollon) as a strict turntablist falling into the "underground rap" or "alternative hip hop" genres will be thoroughly disappointed with this release. Those recognizing Boom Bip as a multi-disciplined artist interested in forging his own musical path rather than sticking in the confines of a specific genre will, at a minimum, be intrigued by this cd's departure from the previous release "Seed to Sun". Gone are the samples, the static and the noise. In their place are layer upon layer of guitars, autoharps, and other various stringed instruments, keyboards and mechanical beats all performed by Boom Bip.

Many of the tracks, "Cimple", "Girl Toy", "Dumb Day", and "One eye around the warm corner" consist of bizarrely simple melodies and chord progressions that result in melodious washes of sound rather than individual structured songs. The standout tracks include "The Move", "The Dos and the Don'ts" and "The Matter (of our discussion)"

"The Move" is simply one of the catchiest electronic instrumental tracks ever released and will probably make it's way into several chill-out compilations. But what stands out in this track is the bridge which is made up of layers of repetitive guitar lines (almost in the vein of Steve Reich) that build and build until the original theme again emerges. "The Dos and the Don'ts" is a sparse, epic track featuring Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals. The final track features the voice of Nina Nastasia floating over a layer of guitars and autoharps that are as drifting and unstructured as the song's lyrics.

In conclusion, buy this cd! Buy it new! Support this artist.