Dojo

The Ordinary Way | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bos Music
• ASIN: B000095J6J
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #754,565 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wake to the Sun

2. An Honest Moment

3. The Promise

4. After a Long Day of Being Human

5. Añudé

6. Come Alive

7. The Journey Home

8. In This Life

9. Inward Spiral

10. Oracle

11. Electric Moon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Blew me away, October 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Dojo (Audio CD)

There are no words to describe. Listen and begin your journey...

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Daring, Genre Defining, June 2, 2003

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"tow-head" (Fayetteville, AR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dojo (Audio CD)

O.K., I'm biased. I've been addicted to this band since before their first, unsigned, undistributed EP: Rise. But if you're checking this out, then you're probably aware that The Ordinary Way is anything but common. I suggest looking up the word ordinary to get a fuller since of what the band name means.

Dojo means "the place of the way." I could not imagine a more apt name for this album. While diverging dramatically from any linear paths from their first CD, Death&Taxes, TOW has managed to produce another album which is capable of hijacking a CD Player for extended periods of time.

To describe the music of The Ordinary Way is difficult, at best. The easiest answer, Soul-Blues-Jazz-Rock-Folk-Reggae-Groovy Psychedelia, is incomplete and misleading. The shortest answer I can come up with is deceptively unfamiliar. The accurate answer can only be gleaned from listening to this genre defining album. I've heard it described as a composition album. I'm not sure what that means, but the album as a whole is better than the individual songs. The individual songs are extra-ordinary.

Enter dojo.