Volo Volo

Poi Dog Pondering | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 3, 1992)
• Original Release Date: March 3, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000027FY
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,320 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best in the 90's., May 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Volo Volo (Audio CD)

Volo is one astounding album. It is a marriage of 50's rhythm and blues with violin, horns, rock n' roll, and even some hip hop beats. Then it is combined with Frank Orrall's lyrics spun with a gypsie -like wisdom (whatever that means). With the exception of Camper Van Beethoven, no other recent band has been able to combine so many musical types so successfully. This album ages well. Poi Dog is also a great live band.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No Boundaries for These Guys, March 29, 2009

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J. Johnson (San Diego CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Volo Volo (Audio CD)

It baffles me that so many great bands go unnoticed. I only heard of these guys because I worked in a clothing store and one of the girls would play it. How many bands these days have lead singers as opposed to screamers? The acoustic instruments, electric guitars and vocal harmonies make for a night-in-an-abandoned-warehouse jam session.

What I really love is their refusal to play one style. 'Collarbone' speaks to the hopeless romantic, 'I've Got My Body' to the starving artists who refuse to sell out. 'Te Manu Pukarua' takes you to the tropics, directly followed by rock anthem 'blood and thunder'. I always like bands that don't stick to one style, because we are multi-faceted creatures. We love, hate, adore and envy the same person at the same time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gets better as it moves along, February 6, 2007

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kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Volo Volo (Audio CD)

Released in 1991, this is Poi Dog Pondering's third CD. It is 55 minutes long and the sound quality is very good.

Poi Dog Pondering started in Hawaii where they released two EP's that were combined for the group's first major release. They moved to Austin where they did two more CD's, broke up, and reformed in Chicago with mostly different musicians and a slightly different sound.

For the first 3 CD's Poi Dog Pondering had an accoustic, folk, world music sound, very similar to Rusted Root. At the peak, there were 10 members in the band, with instruments include violin, sax and all kinds of percussion. Like many such bands, they stretched out more live than on the studio CD's.

This CD starts out with a bunch of very nice songs. It just gets stronger as the CD goes on. There is more innovation and depth to the music.

It does end on a bad note of a 5 minute instrumental that is mostly just noise. But, it is at the end of the CD so you don't have to listen to it to get to the good stuff.

If you like Rusted Root, you will like this.