Invisible System Albums
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Well... here is one CD you can buy from me direct (when I am not in Mali) but all of our albums (around 8) are available in CD shops, downloads e.g. itunes, amazon for CDs and downloads etc etc. Even ebay you can find some IS bargains on there;)
This was our second album and my god it pulled in some reviews. The New York Times, most UK national newspapers, fRoots & Songlines, BBC, Mojo & Uncut etc
Gideon Coe played it quite extensively on BBC Radio 6 and it also saw airplay on BBC Radio 3 with Late Junction and World on 3 + so much international radio play...
Here is one review from Robin Denselow (The BBC & The Guardian)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mcpn
And from Jon Pareles (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/arts/music/cds-from-alison-krauss-colin-stetson-and-dennis-coffey.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=street%20clan&st=cse
And finally from iTunes (Chris Nickson, www.allmusic.com)
There's a huge sea change between Invisible System's debut and this
sophomore outing. Where the first was definitely based around Ethiopian
music, this is a much more amorphous and adventurous beast. If it needs to
be defined, it's a rock -- maybe even post-rock -- album. Ethiopia is still
there, and some of the music was recorded in Addis Ababa. But many of the
sounds were made in England using a truly staggering range of musicians, and
there's a powerful Jamaican influence at work here, too. If you need an
analogy, think of the work of Adrian Sherwood, or even some PiL (in fact,
"Mutant Miners" sounds like it could be have been smuggled off some
fantastical PiL album). This is world music in the sense that it was made by
people from different parts of the globe coming together, but its roots are
in the here and now rather than in any tradition. It's challenging,
adventurous, and heavily textured; the tracks were recorded live and later
chopped up and mixed, although you'd never notice the joints. It might prove
to be one of the finds of 2011, a real sonic adventure that speaks highly of
Dan Harper, the man behind it all.
This was our second album and my god it pulled in some reviews. The New York Times, most UK national newspapers, fRoots & Songlines, BBC, Mojo & Uncut etc
Gideon Coe played it quite extensively on BBC Radio 6 and it also saw airplay on BBC Radio 3 with Late Junction and World on 3 + so much international radio play...
Here is one review from Robin Denselow (The BBC & The Guardian)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mcpn
And from Jon Pareles (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/arts/music/cds-from-alison-krauss-colin-stetson-and-dennis-coffey.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=street%20clan&st=cse
And finally from iTunes (Chris Nickson, www.allmusic.com)
There's a huge sea change between Invisible System's debut and this
sophomore outing. Where the first was definitely based around Ethiopian
music, this is a much more amorphous and adventurous beast. If it needs to
be defined, it's a rock -- maybe even post-rock -- album. Ethiopia is still
there, and some of the music was recorded in Addis Ababa. But many of the
sounds were made in England using a truly staggering range of musicians, and
there's a powerful Jamaican influence at work here, too. If you need an
analogy, think of the work of Adrian Sherwood, or even some PiL (in fact,
"Mutant Miners" sounds like it could be have been smuggled off some
fantastical PiL album). This is world music in the sense that it was made by
people from different parts of the globe coming together, but its roots are
in the here and now rather than in any tradition. It's challenging,
adventurous, and heavily textured; the tracks were recorded live and later
chopped up and mixed, although you'd never notice the joints. It might prove
to be one of the finds of 2011, a real sonic adventure that speaks highly of
Dan Harper, the man behind it all.