Music CD - Thievery Corporation: The Cosmic Game

	Music CD: The Cosmic Game Artist: Thievery Corporation List Price: $15.98 Our Price: $8.74 Your Save: $ 7.24 ( 45% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Eighteenth Street
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Tracks: 1. Marching the Hate Machines (Into the Sun) featuring the Flaming Lips 2. Warning Shots featuring Sleepy Wonder and Gunjan 3. The Revolution Solution featuring Perry Farrell 4. The Cosmic Gate 5. Satyam Shivam Sundaram featuring Gunjan 6. Amerimacka featuring Notch 7. Ambicion Eterna (Eternal Ambition) featuring Verny Varela 8. Pela Janela (Through the Window) featuring Gigi Rezende 9. Sol Tapado featuring Patrick de Santos 10. The Heart's a Lonely Hunter featuring David Byrne 11. Holographic Universe 12. Doors of Perception featuring Gunjan 13. Wires and Watchtowers featuring Sista Pat 14. The Supreme Illusion featuring Gunjan 15. The Time We Lost Out Way featuring Loulou 16. A Gentle Dissolve
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0795103008120 Label: Eighteenth Street Manufacturer: Eighteenth Street Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Eighteenth Street Release Date: 2005-02-22 Studio: Eighteenth Street
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Outstanding Comment: The CD is awesome. I have "The Mirror Conspiracy" as well. "The Cosmic Game" is the one I just bought. It groves very well, its a great CD for the car ride home from a hard days work. As well as a great soundtrack for a clam dinner party with friends. If you like Thievery Corporation, this album is a must have. Customer Rating: Summary: Another great offering from the Conspiracy group Comment: These guys put so many genre's together they come up with their own. Is it middle eastern, is it Jamaican, is it rock and roll, is it jazz? Hey you, quit your categorizing and just listen to the music! It's good for the soul! Customer Rating: Summary: Progressive decline in creativity by T.C. Comment: It seems that since the Mirror Conspiracy, all these guys do is turn out endless variations of the same played-out sound Customer Rating: Summary: From the Cosmos Comment: Only one word fully describes this album: Wow. Where do they get the inspiration, the creativity, the magic? Who knows. Just be thankful that they keep making beautiful and innovative music. TC just keeps getting better with each new album. If you thought RMIB was original, wait till you hear the collage of sounds compiled onto this tapestry of music. Some standout tracks: Warning Shots, Heart's a Lonely Hunter, Amerimacka, and the knock-out The Supreme Illusion. Holy cow, this song will floor you. It's almost too good. If you own any other TC album and you like it, go out immediately and but The Cosmic Game. It's even better. Customer Rating: Summary: Good music, but hidden Comment: Certainly a good solid album, and worth the listen from beggining to finish. Found myself really liking most of the tracks, but after a few listens there are some repepetitive elements that are hard on the ear. On most, if not all, of the tracks there is a heavy triplet delay effect that becomes extremly annoying after a few minutes. There is a lot of good music in this album, a shame that the smooth rythms, ecclectic vocals, and svelt textures are drowned in the delay. If this was a mastering descision, someone should shoot the engineer in the foot. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: There's always been a psychedelic edge to Rob Garza and Eric Hilton's Thievery Corporation project. 2000's Mirror Conspiracy is a downtempo classic precisely because of its druggy expansiveness; sober listeners and saucer-eyed trippers alike could find common ground. Similarly esoteric and nocturnal, The Cosmic Game floats around the room on a wave of mystic beats and guest vocals from Perry Farrell, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, and David Byrne. Garza and Hilton are less devoted to non-electronic sources here than they were on The Richest Man in Babylon or The Outernational Sound, though their fascination with dub rhythms and world music remains intact. A fair amount of armchair travel is involved as you go from the late, late-night, beach-club-in-Jamaica sound of "Amerimacka," to the Brazilian percussion of "Ambicion Eterna" and "Pela Janela." But more than anything, the record feels like a return to the duo's own ethereal sonic roots. It's a nice blend of their music over the last half-decade for longtime fans, and a hazy glide down the rabbit hole for newcomers. --Matthew Cooke