Collectivity [Import]

Adham Shaikh (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: PID
• ASIN: B000KB6CSS
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #465,180 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Little terrain exists that Shaikh has not canvassed. These 10 songs, ranging 6-8 minutes in length (actually shorter than previous works), emit a similar pattern. They build a basic foundation of bass and drums, most often mid-tempo with a few housier tracks, and then weave a rich carpet of instrumentation: thick, penetrating and spacious. On the opening "Bellydancer" these include a gorgeous zither section alongside winding flutes and a ska-based synthesizer; on "Peace in the Middle East," a host of Turkish percussion and a romping didgeridoo, while a tech-heavy synth follows; with "Beyond I," a dumbek and heartbreaking female vocals (along the lines of Sussan Deyheim and Azam Ali).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Multi-Ethnic Ambient/New Age Done Wonderfully, August 7, 2007

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Sea Knight (Northern CA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collectivity (Audio CD)

This was a listen twice before I savored it. I didn't think much of the songs the first time. The second spin, it was wonderful and made me want to sway and dance some. Its balanced very ear-tolerable exotic sounds and African rhythms and touches are new for me in the New Age bass beat-founded realm. I look forward to when it feels right to hear again as it was somewhat rousing and a once in a while partyish-like, evening highlight. I wasn't having a party but it made my solitary Friday night like one with the kids playing good noisily in the neighboring apt complex and their olders gladdening together. It seems a special worthy cd, although points off for it not having a cardboard case. Why does any still go with the unrecyclable plastic and that often is cracked?! Is it much more expensive and/or hard to get via some companies?
Oh, I also had some special experiences with collective spiritual life building up to hearing it and after, as I held it a while waiting as I moved, and then enjoyed it in my way too strongly carpet-shampooed apt.
I got a hi from a cute, petite, very pretty, huge-boobed black girl walking the trails, and then had a surprising, great juvenile rattlesnake encounter, which I then went around courteously and happily. Her shorts were too tight but I am curious and may see her again in tolerance but I hope she dresses better and doesn't seem spandex-low. There were several other occurrences of greater coordinance, such as a big cheering depression-healing and evil-removing get-together under the Blue Oak where I stayed. Hard to describe but I truly sensed the collective awareness increasing for me in positive events and lessons that arrived with this.