Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Compassion
2. Rare Earth
3. Mumtaz
4. The Berber Of Seville
5. To The Shore
6. The Greater Silence
7. Feel
8. Dust
9. Sonata
10. Unexpected Rain
11. Beauty And The East
12. Rememberance

Disc 2:

1. Rare Earth (The Forst Of Thieves Mix)
2. Feel (The Diamond Cake Mix)
3. Beauty And The East (The Marine Drive Traffic Jam)
4. The Berber Of Seville (The Berber Of Suburbia Mix)
5. Dust (The Pigment Of Your Imagination Mix)
6. Compassion (The Continental Drift Mix)
7. The Berber Of Seville Orchestral Version (Father Mackay's Celestial Vision)
8. Remembrance (Fires Remix)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51880 in Music
• Released on: 2006-02-28
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.com
The Bombay Dub Orchestra delivers on the promise of its name. Here, London studio insiders Andrew T. MacKay and Garry Hughes have devised a dream-like new project where Lee Scratch Perry seemingly spent his time in India doing Bollywood film soundtracks instead of psychedelic Jamaican dub jams. With a world of experience between the two primaries (Bjork, ABC, Sly & Robbie, Vast), the duo's skillful integration of these seemingly divergent sources is seamless. A full orchestra, live soloist, and a rich production aesthetic are tastefully complemented by sexy trip-hop programming that recalls Zero 7 and other top-flight groups. The two-disc set includes a 12-song disc and an eight-song set of remixes on a second disc. The remixes are longer with slightly different assemblages of pieces, but aren't much weirder, just different. Highlights among the often pun-filled titles include the cinematic "Dust" and "The Berber Of Seville" as well as the atmospheric "Rare Earth: The Forest Of Thieves Mix." ­-- Tad Hendrickson

Album Description
The Bombay Dub Orchestra is the brainchild of two English musicians, Andrew Mackay and Garry Hughes, who wanted to do something that hadn't been tried before: to make the ultimate chill-out album, using a real orchestra. It all began when Mackay and Hughes went to Bombay some seven years ago to record some of that city's top session players for a project by the LA group Spellbound. "I produced and Andy arranged," Hughes recalls. "It was a fantastic experinece recording these guys, and on the plane coming home we thought how great it would be to make an orchestral chill-out record with these players." Over a period of nearly a year, Mackay and Highes worked out the intricate, almost cinematic arrangements with digital samples. They ended up with a pretty fair approximation of what their Bombay Dub Orchestra would sound like. But there was no chance that the two producers would be satisfied with that. "I love samples and use them a lot" Highes says, "but some things you have to do with real players." In March 2005, Mackay and Hughes finally traveled to Bombay, India and began what must rank as one of the most unique orchestral recording sessions ever. "During that week, we recorded a 28 piece string section on 10 different tracks. We generally overdubbed the orchestra several times to achieve the multi-layored arrangements that we were aiming for." In addition to the orchestra, the pair also recorded the cream of Bombay's Indian classical musicians - including leading players of the sitar, tabla, bansuri and some memorable vocal performances. This specially priced double CD also includes a second disc of "dub remixes" which takes the music into even more exotic sonic territories.

Customer Reviews

pretty good
very nice chill music for sure, but it dose kind of get dull in some songs. Over all it's not bad.

Top notch Indian flavored electronica
If you've acquired a taste for mellow electronica with world groove flavors, I assure you this is one of the best collections ever. 2 discs, absolutely solid all the way through!

A Must Have For Your Lifetime Collection, The Bombay Dub Orchestra is Wonderful.
A cool spring breeze... the butterflies are dancing from flower to flower. A blade of grass tickles the nose of my sleeping calico cat. I'm sitting in the middle of my little backyard world, while this ambient and amazing cd plays from inside the house. I can't help but to close my eyes while the yellow sun soaks my skin and the music penetrates my soul. I am taken. This was the first time that I listed to Bombay Dub's cd, and since that day, I've listened to it countless times, and each time have been floored by it's brilliance. You will love it. It is worth every penny. Pure golden light. Buy this album today.
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