| Artist |
Bonobo |
| Album Title: |
Black Sands |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Electronica/Dance: Trip Hop |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
03/29/2010 |
| Label |
Ninja Tune |
| Catalog No |
ZENCD140 |
| Bar Code No |
5 021392 584126 |
| Packaging |
Cardboard Gatefold |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Prelude (1:18)
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| 2.
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Kiara (3:50)
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| 3.
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Kong (3:57)
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| 4.
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Eyesdown / Bonobo feat. Andreya Triana (5:26)
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| 5.
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El Toro (3:44)
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| 6.
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We Could Forever (4:19)
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| 7.
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1009 (4:30)
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| 8.
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All In Forms (4:51)
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| 9.
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The Keeper / Bonobo feat. Andreya Triana (4:48)
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| 10.
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Stay The Same / Bonobo feat. Andreya Triana (4:44)
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| 11.
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Animals (6:45)
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| 12.
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Black Sands (6:49)
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| Date Acquired |
03/17/2017 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
| Purchase Price |
11.75 |
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Notes |
Notes
Released in cardboard gatefold sleeve and includes a fold-out mini poster.
Published by Just Isn't Music except El Toro published by Just Isn't Music and Full Thought Publishing
℗&© Ninja Tune 2010
Made in EU
Credits
Design, Art Direction – Oscar & Ewan
Mastered By [Uncredited] – Kevin Metcalfe
Photography By – Pelle Crépin
Photography By [Assisted By] – Matthew Robinson
Producer – Simon Green
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Ninja Tune
Copyright © – Ninja Tune
Pressed By – MPO
Published By – Just Isn't Music
Published By – Full Thought Publishing
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Analyzed Folder: Bonobo - Black Sands_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR8 -0.17 dB -11.09 dB 01 - Prelude.flac
DR7 -0.17 dB -9.58 dB 02 - Kiara.flac
DR8 -0.17 dB -9.42 dB 03 - Kong.flac
DR8 -0.17 dB -10.77 dB 04 - Eyesdown.flac
DR9 -0.17 dB -10.21 dB 05 - El Toro.flac
DR6 -0.17 dB -6.93 dB 06 - We Could Forever.flac
DR7 -0.17 dB -9.43 dB 07 - 1009.flac
DR7 -0.17 dB -9.87 dB 08 - All in Forms.flac
DR7 -0.17 dB -9.96 dB 09 - The Keeper.flac
DR7 -0.65 dB -8.91 dB 10 - Stay the Same.flac
DR7 -0.17 dB -9.61 dB 11 - Animals.flac
DR7 -0.17 dB -9.92 dB 12 - Black Sands.flac
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Number of Files: 12
Official DR Value: DR7
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| Reviews |
AllMusic Review by K. Ross Hoffman:
Laid-back London groove maestro Simon Green (alias Bonobo) returns after a considerable absence (on the recording front, at least) with this fourth full-length helping of his masterfully mellow monkey magic. While it's not terribly divergent from the future-jazz cut-ups that made his earlier efforts such an instinctively natural fit with the turn-of-the-century Ninja Tune stable, Black Sands evidences a clear evolution into a more distinctive, sophisticated, and complex style, resulting in his most musically adventurous work to date, and certainly his most modern-sounding. Green's clearly been keeping his ear to the ground for a bit of rhythmic reinvigoration: the immediately striking "Kiara" reworks the hauntingly elegant string refrain that opens the album with submerged vocal splices and a halting, head-nodding left-field hip-hop beat á la relative Ninja Tune newcomer Flying Lotus, while cuts like the "Eyesdown" and "All in Forms" shade subtly toward the dubstep diaspora. Elsewhere, "We Could Forever" is a funky Afro-Latin workout riding an infectiously crisp guitar riff, and the scruffy, swing-inflected breakbeats that dominated Bonobo's earlier output crop up again on "Kong" and "El Toro." But while the grooves here serve quite nicely (and keep things consistently varied), it's the lush layers of unmistakably live instrumentation laid on top -- most of it played by Green himself -- that make the album really soar. That's especially true on the two closing cuts, both stretching toward seven minutes, which eschew electronics almost entirely and feel more than anything like dense, moody, compositionally intricate modern jazz. At the other end of Black Sands' polychromatic though tonally consistent spectrum are a clutch of cuts featuring the rather blandly breezy vocals of Andreya Triana -- silky smooth electro-samba ("Wonder When") and neo-soul ("The Keeper") that make for more than passable mood fodder but can't quite match the musical inventiveness displayed elsewhere (though Green does weave her vocals quite deftly among the clustered woodwinds and sparse stutter-step of "Eyesdown.") For a style of electronica (chillout/downtempo) that's grown decidedly dusty over the past decade -- even though Bonobo is clearly striving to move well beyond such staid genre divisions, and in many ways succeeding, that's probably still the best place to slot him if you gotta -- Black Sands is a welcome infusion of life and warmth.
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