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Peace With Every Step

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im the first reviewer hunh? ...thats a big responsibility, cause yall gonna hafta live and die with my advice solely to advice you... daggone... the pressure is mounting...

but sumbodygotadoit...

build an ark is a california jazz collective... i had never ever heard'a em till i purchased the cd (luckily the store i get my music at allows you to lissen to the albums before you buy them!) ...i proly shouldnt have used 'garage' in my title description, cause that might imply 'funk' or 'soul' to many people, when actually these cats is cool and laid back with how they approach their music; no pfunk 'funky' but no where near 'smooth' jazz status either. more 'tribal' with their sound/semi-spritual or bohemian in their approach.

drums and flutes are their primary instruments.

i'd reference them along the likes of archie shepp's 'attica blues'... soel's 'memento'... fertile ground's 'seasons change'... alice coltrane's 'journey in satchidananda'... yeah, pharoah sanders would fit right in with these folks, mosdefinitely!

18 tracks; 63 mins and ten seconds of music with only one real mistake, their rendition of 'pure imagination' (blaaah! that's right, the willy wonka and the chocolate factory song! keep havin annoying visions of gene wilder and that big purple hat of his!!!! what was they thinkin???
...like i said, BLAAAAH!!!) ... this would have gotten five stars from me, but a couple times they seem to push the envelope towards 'boring' than 'creative'... but not a bad purchase overall, if you dig the eclectic.