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Summary: not typical IME, but still great
Comment: It took me a few listens to fully appreciate and understand this first effort by the "new" I Mother Earth, but once I caught on I loved it. I think when approaching this CD or anything by I Mother Earth since Brian replaced Edwin, one needs to understand that it is almost like you are listening to a different band. Both Edwin and Brian are excellent singers in their own right, and they each brought something to IME that separates the "Edwin era" and the "Brian era" from each other. If you are looking for Scenery and fish volume II this is probably not a good choice for you, but if you are willing to approach this as a different band you may be pleasantly surprised. Personal faves on the CD are "love your starfish", "all awake", "good for sule", and "cloud pump". There is a nice mix of heavier tracks and softer melodically driven songs. I strongly recommend purchasing this CD.
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Summary: I Mother Earth Review
Comment: I Mother Earth is a good band. I think thier album Blue Green Orange is very good. I bought the album because i knew the song "Summertime in the void". I saw the video of that song on TV in 1999. Over all it's a good CD.
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Summary: The Worst of the Best
Comment: The introduction of Bryan Burne in the wake of Edwin's resignation from the band in Blue Green Orange leaves me with mixed reviews on the album. While Burne's voice can be found easily strung in with the tunes and melodies of Christian, Jagori, and Bruce, the often muffled and unexplicably incoherant lyrics are a far cry from the well-organized songs from their past. However, songs like 'Gargantua', with it's fierce yet rythmic bass strikes, and 'Good for Sule''s melodic drifts on pianos and drums, prove that I Mother Earth's skills in music and producing songs with impact are enough to keep them from succumbing to the dangers of change.
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Summary: Showing Their Colours
Comment: Is it any wonder that I Mother Earth's least commercially successful album also sparked the most debate of the three? This album took along parts of the "old" IME, like their signature jams and percussion. It also left behind some of the elements many fans loved about them, like the alt-rock sound and their instantly recognizable singer, Edwin. In this "post-post-grunge" gem, it turns out change did them good.This album often meets Dig's progessiveness and Scenery And Fish's sticky hooks somewhere in the middle, with jams that touch both on the former's technical excellence and the latter's great atmospherics. Loops, samples, and effects add to that atmosphere. As for the then "new guy", Brian Byrne's voice is richer, fuller, more emotive, and possibly more powerful than Edwin's, though at this point lacking Ed's polish on record. Guitarist Jag Tanna discovered his knack for writing perfect mood music and delivering it with a greater depth than the other two albums. Bassist Bruce Gordon often layers his sound with Tanna's in the same way as before, but also in hypnotic, repeating riffs over which the guitarist makes all the chord changes, resulting in a different, interesting sound. Percussion is back in a big way here, with broader world music arrangements and a Christian Tanna who shows the intensity of Dig and the subtle nuance of S&F. His lyrics are even stranger than before, but arranged in a well-structured, aesthetically pleasing way. Byrne himself writes the lyrics for the final track, but it's almost impossible to tell the difference.
This disc has no all-encompassing feel like the other two, and its journey into so many different moods takes away the listen-straight-through quality the other two albums had. However, the thicker bass and lighter guitar tones render even the three or four bottom-heavy riffs stripped of any alt/grunge sensibility, and that is a definite step forward. Each song is great on its own, but doesn't necessarily lead into the next one, thus interrupting the flow. Still, this is a rewarding listen, and paves the way for even greater things.
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Summary: Blazing their own trail
Comment: Pop quiz. It's 1999. The Alternative sound of the 90's is out. Bubblegum pop and rap-metal are in. Your band is one of Canada's cornerstones of the former, seemingly obsolete sound. To top it off, the voice (and maybe the face) of your band has split to pursue a successful solo career with a more pop-oriented rock sound than you ever had, and you've picked up an unknown to take his place. What do you do?I'll tell you what I Mother Earth did - they went their own way. The attitude projected in Blue Green Orange, the band's third album and first with vocalist Brian Byrne, is simply, "We don't care." Rather than playing it safe and going about "business as usual" to show they're the same band with or without Edwin, they go in a new direction. That direction still has their signature sound stamped all over it, but if Scenery And Fish was the next step forward from Dig, Blue Green Orange was a left turn.
Grunge-free rockers do battle with mellower, more heartfelt explorations as prog-rock does battle with mainstream, and the band is equally effective at all of these. There are fewer of the soaring pop hooks found on Scenery And Fish, and Byrne adds a more rock-sounding voice to the mix.
Even the relatively commercial Scenery And Fish took a few listens to sink in with me, and that's the rule here, too. The best thing is to come to the table with no expectations. Then you won't be disappointed that it doesn't sound exactly like the other two records, or any record in that year or any year in the 90's. This one stands all on its own.
