Hurricane [IMPORT]

Grace Jones

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 11, 2008)
• Original Release Date: October 22, 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: MSI:WALL OF SOUND
• ASIN: B001H1OV8S
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (66 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,282 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. This is

2. William's Blood

3. Corporate Cannibal

4. I'm crying (Mother's tears)

5. Well Well Well

6. Hurricane

7. Love you to life

8. Sunset Surprise

9. Devil in my Life

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

2008 album from the original New Wave, Art/Disco diva, her 10th album and first studio release in almost 20 years. Hurricane features an all-star production team led by Ivor Guest, including Brian Eno, Tricky, and Sly & Robbie. Other participants on Hurricane are Wally Badarou, Wendy and Lisa, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, Mikey 'Mao' Chung, Barry Reynolds, Don-E and Tony Allen, Nine tracks including the singles 'William's Blood' and the haunting and twisted 'Corporate Cannibal'. Wall of Sound. 2008.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The iconic, dominant figure is back and is rocking the house!, November 12, 2008

By	Grover (Atlanta,GA) - See all my reviews

Her first album in two decades finds Grace Jones's sound as untarnished by time as her public presence.
Model, actress, performer, entertainer, singer, producer, writer, supercharged warholian dominatrix and deranged bag-lady, the enigma that is Ms. Grace Jones has been reaffirming herself as the superstar with levels of charisma that border on the superhuman she has always been.
This aptly named "Hurricane" sees Ms Jones working with various purveyors of pop perfection, having been produced by musician/punchline Ivor Guest - Fourth Viscount Wimborne, who's created an impressive facsimile of her original musical style - alongside Grace herself and includes contributions from Sly and Robbie, Brian Eno and Tricky.
With a cultural legacy that has defined popular culture over the last 35 years, expect, as ever with Ms Jones, the unexpected.
This is a multi-layered album, giving listeners beats as hard-hitting and deliciously wicked as the artist herself, as well as soulful reflection, giving Hurricane a distinct, unexpected intimacy
"Hurricane" is more contemplative than the initial taste suggested.
Generally, the album feels corporating electronics, funk and soul, marrying reggae-matic grooves with sinister industrial-tinged techno backdrops reinforcing Jones's predatory manner on songs like "Corporate Cannibal" and "This Is", which opens the album in a scudding two-step twitch.
What's less expected is the tender attitudes she betrays elsewhere, coming over all ecological-collectivist in "Sunset Sunrise", displaying consummate bedside manner as she offers to "Love You to Life", and reflecting on her own family history in "I'm Crying (Mother's Tears)" and "Williams' Blood", which employs handclaps and choral refrain to build up an almost gospel fervour, before concluding, with no hint of irony, with a quote from "Amazing Grace". This track is among the most personal songs she's ever recorded, celebrating the contradictions between Grace's religious family background and eccentric, extravagant public persona.
Overall, it's Jones's incredible voice that finally dominates any stylistic experimentation, morphing from foreboding, growling raps to intimate, lilting lullabies. As she declares: "This is my voice, my weapon of choice".
Highlights of the album: "This Is", "Corporate Cannibal", "Williams' Blood", and "Hurricane".

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sticks out like a sore thumb......, November 11, 2008

By	J. Bilby "littlebibs" (Kingston, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After listening to this collection over the past week and various
cuts leaked during the late summer, I find Hurricane, the brand new
import from Grace Jones a standout recording and after 19 years
a welcome comeback of the year. A performance artists like no other,
Hurricane highlights the many moods of Grace Jones and reflects back
to her 80's dub-reggae brillance along side a futuristic Massive Attack
style that works perfectly for grace, it updates her sound, yet brings
back what made her so unique. Its a mature work with standout collaborations from veterans Sly & Robbie, Brian Eno, Tricky, and many
from 1980's gems Warm Leatherette and Nightclubbing. Warm, haunting, filled with soulful backup singing, menacing sounds but never boring,
its Grace's most important statement, stands proud along side Warm Leatherette, Nightlclubing, Living my Life and Slave to the Rhythm. Grace's vocals', both (singing and speaking) have matured into a nice
weathered instument, she is in full control of her voice and on Hurricane
she travels into new territories but is always intoxicating. Stand out
tracks, "This is"(life), "I'm crying my mother's tears", "Corporate Cannibal", "Devil in my life", "William's Blood", "Love you to life",
"Well, Well, Well", and mellow reggae dub vibe "Sunset, Sunrise"(a song
written by her son,) and the adventurous title track "Hurricane", with
Tricky on vocals. Theres not a bad track here, its much more reflective, haunting, tender, fierce and self assured yet mature, almost "adult" here and there "HURRICANE" should reach a larger audience around the world. This is one of the best of the year and Comeback of the Year. Still able
to shock and surprise and cast a spell on all who take the time to
check this collection out, Grace Jones is back!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars and now Ladies and Gentlemen, heeere`s Grace, November 11, 2008

By	el Barto - See all my reviews

Finally she`s back! Who would have guessed? And how!! She gives a sh.. for Timbaland or the way to the charts. She just made an album for her fans. And everyone who ever liked her will love this CD because it`s 100 % Grace Jones. She kept her style without being stuck in the 80ies. It`so wonderful to hear from her again and I really hope, we don`t have to wait another 19 years for the next album.