Ussr: The Art of Listening

DJ Vadim

Genre: music4me > Urban > Hip Hop

Format: CD Album

Released: Mon 2 Sep 2002

Catalogue Number: ZENCD68

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Description:
Hip hop¹s favourite Russian ex-pat returns with his third album, "USSR The Art Of Listening" and once again DJ Vadim has raised his game. "ŠListening" has all of the angular abstractions of Vadim¹s earlier work, but here it is combined with a new depth of musicality, a love of bass and an interest in music and words from around the world. So, alongside UK MCs like Taskforce and Phi Life Cipher and the cream of US underground wordspitters like Slug, Gift of Gab, Moshun Man and Vakill can be found Polish jazz legend Urzula Dudziak (a favoured sample source for A Tribe Called Quest back in the day), Gruff from Super Furry Animals, Ade Soma and the Rev¹d Clevie Brown. Tablas and djembe drums mix with Japanese flutes, Brazilian guitars, spoken word, obscure scratched sound bites and a definite UK street sound incorporating hints of jungle bass and drums, all build the whole into something unusual and special. It makes for a heady mixture, a record which Vadim describes as "a very grown up but cheeky and extremely musical album." Urban but experimental, fresh and different, this record goes beyond not only what he has done before, but beyond much of today¹s hip hop. With its global view of music, it¹s new emphasis on soul, its concrete feel for the aesthetic of the sample, "The Art Of Listening" is funny, serious, unique.

Details:

Distributors: PIAS UK, Sony DADC
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2002
Running Time: 65 minutes

Track Listing:

1.	Till Suns in Your Eye
2.	It's On
3.	She Who Is Tested
4.	Combustible
5.	Ghetto Rebels
6.	Revelations Well Expounded
7.	The Harp Song, Part 2
8.	The Pacifist
9.	In Control, Volume 3
10.	Taa Fun Aiye
11.	Who Me
12.	The Correct Size
13.	L' Art d'Ecouter
14.	I Don't Need Anything But You
15.	Edie Brikell