Session One [Import]

Herbaliser | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 26, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Depth
• ASIN: B00004T14R
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,923 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Who's The Realest

2. Ginger Jumps The Fence

3. Shocka Zulu

4. Shattered Soul

5. Sensual Woman

6. Missing Suitcase

7. Goldrush

8. Forty Winks

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect Herbal remedy., August 10, 2000

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C. G. "seagrass" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Session One (Audio CD)

For those Herbaliser fans who have been wanting to hear the band in its purest form, without any vocals or lyrics whatsoever (I prefer it this way, actually)...this is what you've been waiting for. The group has taken their best tracks from past albums, expanded them, and turned them into an excellent representation of the band's live show. For comparison to one of their live shows, pick up the Wall-Crawling Giant Insect Breaks single, which has live versions of a few songs. The sound is very similar here, and it is obvious that the instrumental cuts on the Herbaliser's studio albums have a strong identity all to themselves. The horn players and rhythm section mesh nicely; they are as tight as Orchestra Morphine. Ginger Jumps the Fence is definitely a highlight, and the whole album takes on an acid jazz/noir feel...this would make an effective soundtrack to any mid-sixties spy movie. I believe Session One was self-released by the band; maybe Ninja Tune will pick this up and release it stateside. Bring on Session Two, please....

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant!!!, December 15, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Session One (Audio CD)

Herbalizer, with added band plays the tunes live. A while ago, herbalizer's albums were mostly sampled joints, but they would play them live with a whole band. This is what it sounds like and it's some of the coolest music you'll ever hear.
What I like about herbalizer is that they blend funk/soul into hiphop and don't take the easy, laid back path. Their songs are incredibly dynamic, driven by multiple layers of percussion and a build up of intesity. It's something you need to hear at full blast to fully comprehend.
if you like anything that has to do with with spy-themed music, funk, soul, hiphop, acid jazz, or just generally great music... get this..

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Instrumental Brilliance, reinterpreting Herbaliser tracks, April 5, 2004

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fetish_2000 (U.K.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Session One (Audio CD)

Seemingly recorded somewhere between the "Blow Your Headphones" & "Very Mercenary" The Herbaliser (Ollie Teeba, Jake Wherry), this was a one off, instrumental rendition of a selection of the ten or so tracks culled from their previous albums. It should be noted that this isn't just the Herbaliser tracks we know and love minus the vocals, it's more akin to taking each track and completely destructing it, and arranging each track to fit with a live band composition, so although they'll be familiar to those following the Herbaliser's work, a lot of the scratch effects & samples have now been replaced with live instrumentation. And the effect of this all???.......utterly fantastic, those that aren't convinced by instrumental albums with find little here to convince them, but then again, they wouldn't be searching for reviews of them anyway.....so that leaves those that want to know more about this highly accomplished `re-imaging' of these Ninja tune tracks.....and a strong `Funk', `Spy Thriller' & `Soul Jazz' strain in the construction of each track which does feel like this is a release that has looked to do something a little different, rather than sell the listener the same Ninja Tune album minus the vocals. In fact it could be argued that with this expansion of `Drums, Bass, Horns , String sections, percussion and Turntable' add layers of depth, that the sample heavy originals couldn't hope to compete with. Every track devised here has been beautifully arranged and has a certain resonance missing previously. For example one of my most feverously liked tracks "Shattered Soul" (from the "Very Mercenary" album), has been gloriously boosted by replacing the samples that made up the instrumental compositions, with a proper String Section arrangement....that takes the elegance of the original and pushes it into Film soundtrack territory. For those Herbaliser fans (like Me) that have the majority of their albums and still crave more....this is a very easy purchase for you, as the familiarity of these instrumental tracks provide an interesting spin with surprisingly longevity. For the rest of you, if you liked the `Beastie Boys' instrumental "The in Sound for Way out!", this works along an equally brilliant line of instrumental music.