Songs of the Victorious City

Anne Dudley, Dudley/Coleman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tvt
• ASIN: B000000GQM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,676 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Songs from the Victorious City., July 27, 2001

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Tom Brody (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of the Victorious City (Audio CD)

If you ever considered My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, by Brian Eno and David Byrne, to be essential to your life, then this album is for you. Endless Festival is a throbbing, motoristic blend of rock'n'roll and middle eastern harmonies. Force and Fire features a throbbing, driving whirlish blend of mysterious chants and teasing musical riffs. The pieces here are more than mere "film music," and certainly more than "mood music." At least two or three of these pieces would feel quite at home on top 40 radio. Although most persons might consider the efforts of Jaz Coleman and Anne Dudley to be fresh and new, the music here sounds quite similar to that on other middle eastern rock'n'roll albums. The album My Eyes by Sheila (2451 CD on Caltex Records) features a pulsating, polyrhythmic offering of Persian rock'n'roll, and an example of a sound similar or identical to that found on Songs from the Victorious City.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Soundtrack to a Great Slideshow, March 21, 2000

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Alf Kremer (Denver CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of the Victorious City (Audio CD)

Imagine if, the next time you went to another country on vacation, you brought back an album you had recorded rather than a video or slideshow. That's sort of what Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman have done here. They "keep it real" by using Egpytian players and instruments throughout, but rather than record a straight-up Egyptian folk album, they add their own instruments and musical ideas to make it a very interesting mixture of the two cultures. Although it works best as background music, certain tracks stand out - "Ziggarats of Cinnamon", "The Conqueror" and my favorite, "Endless Festival". Listen to the samples, and if it floats your boat, pick it up.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars exotic and hypnotic, January 29, 2001

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Michael Heminger "pantherboy" (Pardeeville, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs of the Victorious City (Audio CD)

Lucky for you this was issued stateside - I rushed to buy a German issue when this was new. I had heard some of this material on Killing Joke's tour (they would play it before coming onstage) and had to have it. Jaz (Killing Joke) and Anne (Art of Noise) have created a deeply sincere work here, and I wish they'd do another. Although flavored with Egyptian moods and instruments, the structure is not entirely traditional, with Western scales and melodies that drift like the desert sands. Not quite Classical, not quite World or New Age, but a beautiful blend of all the above that can add a romantic or meditative mood that pulses with the rhythm of life and beckons mysteriously.