Day into Night [Single]

Jiva | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 30, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: P-Vine Japan
• ASIN: B000NVTHDM
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,168,449 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mantra 2 (Visions of a New World)

2. Sol E Lua

3. Shine

4. Better2gether

5. This Love

6. Day into Night

7. Twilight Bossa

8. Like a Star

9. Across the Sea

10. Understand

11. You Lift Me Up

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jiva's Back!, November 26, 2007

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bordersj2 (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Day Into Night (Audio CD)

Jiva's a group consisting of Chanda McKnight, Paige Lackey martin, Rhonda Thomas, Alex Lattimore and spearheaded by Khari Simmons. They're much in the mold of a lot of the nu-soul sounds out of Atlanta and maybe the US in general with the likes of Fertile Ground, The Rebirth and a few other acts that've risen over the past 7 years. Khari Simmon's in particular has been busy - within the last 14-17 months or so, he's done work with Jiva along with various other projects with Julie Dexter and his own remix work.

This is the follow-up to Jiva's successful Sun & Moon cd from a few years ago. It starts out nicely with "Mantra 2", which this time is a full song with Khari's trademark fender rhodes and keys dominant. Nice touch with the electric guitar in there. I didn't care for a small key effect in the intro, but once the song's moving, it's nice... albeit with a slightly cheesy bossa bridge. Sol e Lua is nice - a great, up-beat sort of song. There's nothign quite like live instrumentation, and the drums give the song a real snap. I also liked Better2Gether - nice guitar again - I've always loved that sound. Very unique instrumentation and personality to the sound - but again a little too much with the keyed effect. "Twilight Bossa" was a nice tribute to maybe their biggest hit from their prior album called "I Realized". But this one's based mostly off of teh remix to "I Realized", found on Khari Simmons "Soul Com Bossa" release - the remix really was a thing of beauty.

I liked this one - it's a worthy follow-up to a good album. It didn't totally blow me away like the first Jiva album did, but the group has their own identity, it works, they're sticking with it and I commend them for it. Soul and bossa are their thing. So give this one a chance - and if you like it, check out their previous albums, see "Soul Com Bossa", Julie Dexter & Khari Simmon's "Moon Bossa" (see the theme?), The Rebirth's "This Journey In", and be sure to check out the countless remixes to their songs - particularly "Love Choses Lovers".

5.0 out of 5 stars Glowing Experience, April 25, 2008

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Roberto da Silva - See all my reviews

This review is from: Day Into Night (Audio CD)

"Shine" is my theme song for the year! Songs are progressively positive. Music is uplifting. As always, Jiva will take you on a cosmic journey.