Volume 3: Further in Time [ENHANCED]

Afro Celt Sound System

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2001)
• Original Release Date: June 19, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Real World
• ASIN: B00005ASHF
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #18,527 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

While not as out-of-left-field revelatory and astonishing as their exalted debut, nor as darkly magnetic as their sophomore follow-up, Volume 3: Further in Time finds Afro Celt Sound System fleshed out, funky, and fiercely fresh. Now a band of 20-some-odd players, the Afro Celts push forward with unbounded energy and focus, organically driven beats, and a thoroughly joyous fusion of West African and Irish traditional music enhanced with dissonant Eastern influence, psychedelic trip-hop groove, and a monster flood of sonic waves. The resultant sound is somehow both cutting-edge futuristic and primitive in its visceral virility. Demba Barry steps up with an unexpectedly punchy African hip-hop-styled vocal on "Shadowman," "Lagan" plays out into an orchestral swan dive, and, throughout, Johnny Kalsi and Moussa Sissokho come on like gangbusters with the drums. Real World label honcho and world-music champion Peter Gabriel does a stunning turn on the eminently catchy "When You're Falling," and Robert Plant contributes a powerfully epic rock vocal on "Life Begins Again." Fine as all these moments are, the centerpiece of volume 3, where the band achieves beyond perfect synthesis, is the ecstatic groove-lock on the African acid ceilidh of "Colossus." Volume 3 is the tune-in turn-on we've been waiting for. --Paige La Grone

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Waaay beyond 5 stars!, June 24, 2001

By	K. N. Nelson (California, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I got hooked on ACSS by one of their songs played on La Femme Nikita TV show. This latest release is as exciting, exhilirating and astonishing as their first two CDs. Sunil Kalyan and Pete Lockett are simply killer on tabla and percussion, and, when added to the driving energy of groove masters Kohnny Kalsi and Moussa Sissokho, you will not sit down for the entire album. You just can't.

I am absolutely no fan of hip hop or rap yet both genre are tolerable on "Shadowman" and "Further in Time" respectively. Peter Gabriel does a gritty job on "When you're Falling", and Robert Plant gives an achingly beautiful performance that reminds one anew of his immense vocal elasticity on the eastern tinged "Life Begins Again". I love that man.

Barely represented this time is the exquisite, crystalline voice of Iarla O'Lionaird and the shivvery, chill inducing celtic harp of Myrdhin that made ACSS 1 & 2 so breathtakingly stunning. I miss them on this CD.

Two songs are drop dead gorgeous: "Persistence of Memory" amd "The Silken Whip". "Colossus" and "Lagan" are dance inducing with hypnotic, joyous rhythms. There are countless treats and surprises that fascinate and astonish the listener including delectable tastes of sampled native african and traditional celtic music. Most of all this stunning CD makes one so happy that it is easy to put it at the top of the "gotta play everyday" play list. I know that I do.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking.... I'm speechless, August 7, 2001

By	Clarissa "MoonGoddess" (Ontario, California) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This has got to be the best world album ever made. It surpasses anything I've ever heard before....

After buying the Stigmata soundtrack and hearing Afro Celt's "Release" with Sinead 'O Connor I thought that it was good but not enough so to persuade me to buy their record. But when I heard of their new release on CNN's Worldbeat I became deeply curious. It wasn't until I heard three songs on two different occasions from a local radio station that I knew I had to obtain their third album Volume 3: Further In Time. I bought it with much haste and am so glad that I did because it fuses everything I look for in world music.

My favorites (though I love them all) would have to be the catchy single "When You're Falling" and "Persistence Of Life," which both feature the incredible male vocals of Peter Gabriel, the electronic-based "Shadowman," the African-dance tune "Further In Time," the rock/egyptian-tinged "Life Begin Again--" which is sung by Robert Plant--, "Go On Through" with its Celtic opening and its breakthrough to airy, alternative female singing by Pina, and the final track, "Onwards," which will enrapture you in its timeless beauty. In other words this CD is dazzling, notable, mesmerizing, and, simply put, world without boundaries. I'd suggest this record to anyone who likes plane good music. It's a good accomodation to anyone's home...

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Embrace the code, July 13, 2001

By	John A. Cardin "quiltboy" (Narragansett, RI USA) - See all my reviews

I've been an ACSS fan since stumbling across their first CD wandering through the Amazon pages. I am tempted to use the "M" word (masterpiece) to describe this effort, but I'm afraid I might be putting a jinx on any of their future endeavors...maybe, I'll just leave it at brilliant ...everything that their first two CD's provided..and more. They continue to prove that musically at least, we are all of one genetic code encompassing passion ("North"), celebration ("North 2""Colossus"), power ("Lagan", "Shadowman"), sadness ("Life begins again", "Persistence of Memory")and prayer ("Go on through")among its many loops and curls. I wonder if this group and its sound will every truly find acceptance in the States...so entrenched in either the music of negativism or youthful, manufactured images and sound. Its just too positive, "foreign", and traditional for our collective taste. (Although Advertisers have embraced the ACSS sound as a real attention getter). Masterful vocal appearances by Peter Gabriel and Robert Plant are right at home here and may help to attract new fans. Adult music lovers....buy this CD...no lemons, 12 lemonades. Embrace the code and dance.