People at Large

Amps For Christ | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: 5 Rue Christine
• ASIN: B00019JQA0
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #462,632 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tsaress

2. Use Use Use

3. Old Palm Tree

4. Prince Charlie Stuart

5. Freddie The Mockingbird

6. Banjo Hymn

7. AFC Tower Song

8. Tarsit

9. Bug

10. Midianite Prelude

11. Old Lang Syne/Tube

12. Branches

13. Evening

14. Gold On Mars

15. Claremont Raga

16. Been To The Rock?

17. Enids Rant

18. The Morlough Shore

19. Flower And Leaves

20. Memmorial Immemorial (Revisited)

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Very different approach to music turns extraordinary, January 2, 2006

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noizyme (Escondido, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: People at Large (Audio CD)

I am very new to Amps For Christ but I love 'em. Folkcore is also new to me, but I think if there ever was a band that embodied the aesthetic, it would be AFC.

Most of the music doesn't have vocals, features sitar, ditorted guitar, and world instruments, and is very tradional of Scottish and Indian melodies. In one such case, they completely cover the Scottish tune Auld Lang Syne with distorted guitar (Old Lang Syne/Tube). I loved Freddit the Mockingbird, a song which sounds Oriental in nature to the melody but it adds warped squeaking sounds and other acoustic instrument sounds to fill the void.

They are a somewhat political band (if you see them like that) by including the poem/performance "Gold On Mars." They more or less just like good instrumentals more than anything, IMO. I would definitely pick up this album because it serves as good ambient music with a spice all its own.