Sole & Skyrider Band

Gino Vannelli | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Anticon
• ASIN: B000V75ZWA
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #298,144 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

In some ways, Sole & Skyrider is a record of return - return to rhyming, for one, particularly the complicated rhyme schemes that marked Sole's early work, a return driven by his seemingly, but not actually, discordant love of both Lord Byron and Li'l Wayne. It also represents a return to the musical consistency and coherence that made the Alias-produced Selling Live Water a critical triumph. It is also, though, more than a mere return. Even before he'd finished Live From Rome, Sole had become disenchanted with the process by which he'd been making music: get a beat, spit a rap, mix it down. Fortunately, a series of events led him into the arms of Skyrider. The Orlando three-piece soon relocated to Flagstaff, Arizona, where Sole's been living since his return from abroad, and all of a sudden, music-making became a warmer, richer thing. And you can hear it in the music: these songs feel lived-in, composed but not cold or calculated, and fierce yet not angsty.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is what music should sound like., October 23, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Sole & Skyrider Band (Audio CD)

Every once in a while a new album comes out i find myself saying "Why hasn't someone else already done this?" right when the first track kicked in i felt myself thinking this. The last album to make me wonder about that was Why?- Elephant Eyelash. I have been a fan of Sole for a while probably first thing I heard from him was his parts on Deep Puddle Dynamics. Later I got Bottle of Humans and liked that and i continued on collecting his albums. Those albums I mostly just liked for the lyrics and cool delivery. The beats never did much for me. But when I heard his new album is with this Skyrider band i became interested. And when i finally heard it i was blown away. It was like the lord of the rings soundtrack and el-p got together to make amazingly epic music then got sole to rap over it. This and This is easily soles best and most mature album. It's an album i can see myself listening to fifty years down the line. this album is going to be a timeless classic. Sole truly is a bob dylan or woody guthrie of a new generation. if only the generation would pay attention.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sole of the soul, January 8, 2008

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D. Nyberg "threads of thought" (Bozo Mt usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sole & Skyrider Band (Audio CD)

First and foremost, I own every sole, and nearly every anticon release. To keep it short and simple, if you like sole, more over, if you like indie rap, then you'll like this album. If anticon is a record label you enjoy, you'll like this album. The lyrics are as strong as ever, leaving an envious feeling in your gut, and the music has left me desiring for more skyrider band releases. Sole truly is the new age demagogue.

5.0 out of 5 stars Indie Hip-Hop Masterpiece, February 2, 2011

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Christopher R. Calvano - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sole & Skyrider Band (Audio CD)

The debut full-length album from Sole and the Skyrider Band is a beautifully-flawless interpretation of the world of experimental underground hip-hop, as well as a prime example of how far hip-hop as a whole has come since its inception.