Track Listing

1. Hunger Strike
2. Cloud Land
3. Transformation
4. Danse of Tosho and Slavi/Randy's Desert Adventure
5. Trials and Tribulations of Parking on Your Front Lawn
6. Princess of 'Xibalba': The Princes
7. Princess of 'Xibalba': Los Días Sin Días
8. Princess of 'Xibalba': Xquiq
9. Princess of 'Xibalba': Hunnahpu & Xbalanque
10. Spreading the Disease
11. Planet Sparkle/Court Yard Battle, Pt. 1
12. Dr. Hell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271758 in Music
• Released on: 2001-06-26
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Every genre touched with finess
This is truly an incredible album, but their new album has to be thier best. What you have here is a very talented band of musicians that can change direction at the drop of a hat. They go from metal, to middle eastern, to dixieland, to classical, to jazz, etc... all in one song. If you like Mr. Bungle, then you'll love Estradasphere. I would recommend seeing them live, it's a spiritualy uplifting experience. Especially if you're a musician.

"A Roller Coaster Ride of Thrills"
Estradasphere has shattered my musical horizons. While wandering the desert of musical confusion, they appeared like a shimmering mirage, a far distant glimpse of the Palace of Hassin I Sabbah, or a Post-Apocalyptic Euro-Disney. I once read a quote, or heard it, to the effect of "Estradasphere is every song ever played by anyone in the whole history of humanity all in one great boy band"...which may be overstating things, and it may not. This debut album contains some of the best music I have heard in my life, and that is not an overstatement. The first song alone, "hungerstrike" contains dizzying jazz riffs, traces of funk, a smattering of death metal, klesmyr, folk and...well, spelling out the influences misses the point. It is original, and it is mind-blowing. The rest of the album is just as dizzying. However, unlike many fusion-type bands, they never seem sterile. Amazing musicianship and composition, fabulous Nintendo renditions, and even the occasional Tuvan Throat chant make them, in my opinion, the current pinnacle of what modern music can be...caught in the flux of the emerging Information Age, these guys tune in their psychic radar and pick up the emanations of every band in history, and yet manage to make it their own. You must own this. Now. Understand? Understood.

Real New Music
If you are into some avant garde music, but you can't stand noise, this is what you need. Very similar to Secret Chiefs 3 and Mr. Bungle, Estradasphere is one of the greatest bands you'll ever hear, they play it all, listen to this CD and you will be teleported to a world where music has no bounds, and if you want more check out the single from their second CD "The Silent Elk of Yesterday".

This band will like a lot in the future (very near future), so mark my words.