Dive Deep

Product Details

Artist : Morcheeba
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0617465164828
Label : EMI Music Canada
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-03-04
UPC : 617465164828

ASIN : B0011HF6B4

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Enjoy the Ride
2. Riverbed
3. Thumbnails
4. Run Honey Run
5. Gained the World
6. One Love Karma
7. Au-Delà
8. Blue Chair
9. Sleep on It Tonight
10. Ledge Beyond the Edge
11. Washed Away

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Customer Reviews

A thoroughly pleasant journey ! (2008-02-20)

After "Big Calm" and "Fragments of Freedom" - the band sort of lost their way. Their singer left to pursue a solo career and recent records, "Charango" and "The Antidote", hardly troubled the charts. But they kept plugging away and are now they release their sixth studio album, boasting vocal collaborations from loads of people no one has ever heard. Back in those heady 90s, when making electronic lounge music was considered a valuable addition to society, brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey hooked up with Skye Edwards to form Morcheeba. Paul was a DJ, Ross was multi-instrumentalist and Skye did singing. They were the epytome of contemporary alt.dance genres pioneering a song-based form of dance music that would soon become known as trip hop or chill-out that was notable for featuring the serene vocals of singer, Skye Edwards. There were other collaborations, but Morcheeba was virtually synonymous with Skye All was good for many sunny years, but then, in 2003, the brothers Godfrey decided their musical direction was no longer compatible with Skye's and she was asked to leave. Since then, Morcheeba has dabbled with a number of singers, including former Noonday Underground but no one managed to front the group like Skye. This time round, Morcheeba has gone for the scatter gun approach, asking Judie Tzuke, Thomas Dybdahl, Cool Calm Pete, and Manda from the band Nemesea to do some singing. No big names or celebrity grandstanding here, No, the guests on Dive Deep - the likes of folksy English singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, rapper Cool Calm Pete, and French singer, Manda - appear chosen less for who they are than what they can bring, sweet and soulful voices that supply an emotional backbone to the Godfrey's languid, slo-mo funk grooves. On this album the Godfrey brothers have gone right back to what they do best - mixing mellow beats with lazy melodies - and shrewdly pulled in a range of different vocalists to provide some variety. It is a brooding brew that captures the vocals of Roy Orbison and Nick Cave conjured up by The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, putting it in a 21st century context. There's no "Part of the Process" on here, but taken as a whole, "Deep Dive" suggests that there is still some mileage in the Morcheeba sound. The problem really is the lack of a consistent vocalist. Without Skye providing some continuity across the record, it loses any sense of being a whole. It's not like the boys are making song that are so recognisable that it doesn't matter who is warbling over the top. All the tracks end up sounding like backing tricks for a host of singers who aren't even famous. There's nothing groundbreaking going on, but it's a thoroughly pleasant journey while it lasts.

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