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What's on Your Mind?
by Naked Music NYC
Product Group: Music
Studio: Om Records
ISBN: B000006RA5
EAN: 0600353981027
UPC: 600353981027
Audio CD
Original Release Date: 1998-06-23
Release Date: 1998-06-23
SKU: 07100064
Condition: Very Good Very Good
Comments: Audio CD in very good plus condition with a couple of light scratches. Very nice jewel case with like new art and labels.
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Customer Reviews
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Be good to your ears...
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-08-16
This was one of my earliest forays into the acid jazz world, and one of my best purchases. Each track may contain elements of the previous cut, but that's like saying there was a pretty girl in just about every bar you hopped last night---where's the negative in that?! I've bought this cd twice as gifts to people I thought would appreciate it and they loved it---hands down. Now, experience the experience for yourself.
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I found what I've been looking for...
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-25
This music sings to my SOUL! In a world full of cookie cutter, same-sounding music slickly produced and packaged to appeal to a generation of "video television" bred, apathetic, ADD afflicted sheep, it is a blessing to find that there is still music out there being made for those of us who still practice conscious thought.
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A Lot of People Don't Get It....
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-03-24
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a great album, but his is not an album for you to "listen" to. It's more of a chillout or romantic album. Jay Denes, (the creator of this album) has said as much in the liner notes, which include a quote of Catherine Russell (one of the featured singers): "Oh I understand, its a ---- record. OK, roll the tape".
In that light, the similar mood of the songs, the thick earthy vibe and the super-soulful sensual vocals are actually perfect. It creates a constant mood over the full time frame of the CD, so you can simply escape to a world of raw unbridled sensuality. Taken individually, only one or two of these songs are 5-stars. As a body of work - an album - they hold together impeccably and create the desired effect. You cannot assess them as "singles". That doesn't seem to have been the objective here. By the way the production is crisp and top-notch on every single track. You feel like you could have been in the studio with them, the sound has that much presense and life.
Jay Denes used a top notch crew of NYC funkateers, including Mark Anthony Jones (thefunkiestmanalive) on guitar, and Jonathan Maron (way, way underrated bass player from the Groove Collective). Bob Power (engineer/producer on Stetsasonic and De La Soul's classic album) appears here on guitat. Flutist Richard Worth of Groove Collective also appears on "Its love".
The singers (Ada Dyer and Catherine Russell) are not famous - but damn they SHOULD be. They give a master class here in deep soul singing. Not for them the rabid histrionics of Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey and a million misguided "Idol" contestants all over the world, but REAL modern soul singing, in CONTROLLED voice. if this were the 60's and not the MTV age, I suspect these women would be up there in fame with the Betty Wrights and Shirley Jones's.
I think they all did a perfect job for what they set out to do.
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sad never felt so good
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-02-02
6 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
True, the songs do sound a bit like one another, but maybe that's why I press 'repeat' and listen to it for hours. One guy pretty much wrote all the songs and did the programming. The songs are simple in their structure but not in their feeling or in their incomparable delivery. The two ladies who alternate on the tracks sing with that certain je-ne-sais-quois that only the soulfulest people have. This is one of those musical creations that make you realize to what extent the sensibility of the modern world as a whole has been shaped by afro-americans. These ladies sing not with their throats but with their wombs. A plangent - not to say bluesy - atmosphere pervades the whole Cd throughout...about love lost, hope remembered, ego surrendered, and peace attained. This music will speak to you if you've ever loved to the point of trembling with sadness. Music for real grown-ups, in other words.
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Gotta get this one
Rating  (4)
Date: 2002-01-27
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
It's what birth should have been like. Sexy was poured generously into this compilation. Not too even but enough to get you in the mood and keep you there. Life should be this simple.
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