War & Love

The Bob MacKenzie Group

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 2006)
• Original Release Date: July 26, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Poet Pourri Records
• ASIN: B000HIVKTU
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
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Editorial Reviews

Review

War And Love is ... a carefully crafted collection of contemporary music and words that explores the irrevocable interrelationship between war and love in our personal lives as well as on a global scale.

From the innocent naivety and hope of "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream" to the searing indictment of the way we deny any possibility of culpability on our part in "Innocent (I Wasn't There)," Bob MacKenzie and Poem de Terre explore the dichotomy of human behaviour....

The musicianship, singing, and arrangements are so exuberant it offsets some of the intensity of the message. How can one despair when you listen to the efforts of so many people working together to accomplish a project. There is an energy captured on War And Love that, in spite of its thematic heaviness, manages to convey spirit and hope.

The music is alive and vibrant, the skill level is simply astonishing without a weak link anywhere, and the production has been designed to ensure the listener gets as much of an impact from each note as possible. On some songs, like their version of Melanie's "Lay Down," there is a close to gospel feel that brings a celebratory note to the proceedings.

--Richard Marcus, Blogcritics.org/Desicritics.org/Leap in the Dark

Product Description

Poem de Terre performs a powerful repertoire of original material and exciting new interpretations of others' music and spoken word. "War and Love" is the latest evolution of this socially conscious music, reinvented with a rootsy hard-rock edge for the new millennium that won't let go!