Customer Reviews

Zumanity

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I am a true cirque du soleil fan, and have been following all their soundtracks up to this point and am excited and much looking forward to their future releases...and have loved all their soundtracks up til this one. I don't like the fact that 95% of this recording is vocal. I miss just having the beautfiul insturmental music just drift through your ears. Not enough of it to make me give it a high score. Though the vocals are good. The music is good...This is not their best album in my book. I am really almost disappointed that I bought this cd, the only thing that saved this cd from being putting it up for sale...is Mio Bella Amore. Beautiful song. Other then that...I don't really like this cd as much as I do the other ones. Though I am looking forward to getting Tapis Rouge. That one sounds really good. As for this, I'll keep it...but it won't be played as much. A little too sexy for me.

I have had the pleasure of seeing Zumanity in Las Vegas and it was both marvelous and quite a departure for Cirque du Soleil. Unfortunately my expectations for this CD were unmet. While I do appreciate the creativity and considerable talent that went into the production of the CD, I had visions of the live show in mind. As a fanatical Cirque du Soleil performances fan, I'm afraid the `Inspired By' compilation just didn't work for me. Cirque du Soliel's live shows leave a fantastic and indelible impression in the mind and imagination of the viewer I doubt seriously that they can effectively capture the essence of the performance with anything less then the original! I will certainly buy the actual `show tunes' CD if it is ever released.

Well, I'm finally at the point where I don't know what to say about a Cirque Du Soleil album. I own every Cirque CD, including those live versions of Alegria and Saltimbanco, which were only released to the employees of the Cirque. The problem with this CD is the sex that was thrown in. Almost every song has a background of moans and screams, almost too much for anyone's taste. But especially songs like "The Good Thing", where the female rapper repeats "I only care about what you got in your pants"...they just put one off. I don't mind the music, it's in my taste, but this CD is R-rated, and I'm not sure if I'm really into it.

I'm not too fond of the "Inspired By" CDs... This CD was just OK. I wish they would have released the actual show music instead.

all of the limits. As with any other Cirque production, you have to go in with your senses and your mind open. It was while seeing (another) live show that I wondered if Cirque would do such a show that would be more sensual to the (matured) adult. I wondered what the music would be. I was not disappointed. Many of the forms of music you'd hear in other Cirque CDs are in this show. It's the CONTEXT of eroticism that literally forces the listener to push beyond cultural, societal and self-imposed boundaries of acceptable sexual thought. But eroticism should not be substituted for the act. Some men might be put off by the CD because a few of the strong numbers are sung by women, which puts these females in a position of sexual control (not power). Granted, I even thought I could have done without some of the moans and whips but I do understand that this is reflective of the actual show. Give it another listen...in a quiet place, with an open mind and with open senses. Erase some of the corners of the boundaries...
----2009: I have one serious correction: the music is NOT reflective of the show. I had imagined a variety of acrobatic, dance and comedy acts based on the cd. I had the opportunity to see it and it was, unfortunately, most disappointing for me because based on the CD, I anticipated something different and something MORE. Instead -especially from my normal front row seat, I didn't hear ANY of the music UNTIL WE WERE LEAVING THE THEATRE. It was burlesque without the teasing; flashing of T&A that could be found at any hotel in the downtown Vegas area. It wasn't cerebral, it wasn't sensual. I wondered if I would be able to see another CdS show after that experience (thank heavens for KOOZA!).

So I bought this CD years ago, I tried to listen to it and find something I liked and never could. I put it in with all my other CD's and kind of forgot about it till yesterday. I was out in Vegas and went to see the show. This show is amazing took my breath away. All I could think of was "well... Let's give this CD another try!" But simply put, go see the show!!! Don't buy the CD. Once they come out with the music from the show get it. Till then a CD like this does the show no justice. Hope this helps.

For every Cirque show I see, I buy the Program & CD.
I really did enjoy the show, style, acts & makeup/costumes...or lack of! ;)

But the CD left much to be desired.
I guess I was expecting grander music, cirq-ish lyrics.
What I got was mostly english-lyrics.
Granted- I did like the Tango. Meditation was Ok.
But nothing was spectacular.
Nothing I would bother downloading had I heard the music first.
So of 11 Lyric-ed songs, I liked 2.
*shrug*

This may be good for some folks, who prefer this style.
I guess it just was to far from my flavor of music for me to enjoy it more.

All of the other Cirque Soundtracks I have (O, Saltimbanco, Solarium/Delirium, Alegria, Quidam, Journey of Man) are absolutely incredible, yet it seems like every artist has at least one outstandingly bad album...and I'm afraid this one is Cirque's worst. All it really is is just dialogue that hardly makes sense, transitional, very short (not even a minute?) tracks in between that are merely just sound effects, and a few tracks after that which end up sounding like kinky elevator music. Not to mention the singer in the first track is horribly out of tune at the first note which is unnaceptable for a recording! All of the other cirque albums as I listed above are INCREDIBLE, but this is the only one I would highly discourage anyone from buying.

My boyfriend gave me a copy of Zumanity for my birthday. I didn't know what to expect because I had never heard a Cirque du Soleil record before - I haven't stopped listening to it and am constantly amazed at finding something new in it every time. I particularly like 'Do It Again' and 'Per Sempre'. A truly uplifting and entertaining record.

A dirge of a C.D. Not at all like any other Cirque du Soleil music tracks, which have always been excellent.