Track Listing 1. Corso 2. Enchanting Signs 3. Abstractions 4. Azure 5. Scavenger Hunt 6. Quantum 7. Season 8. Mohair 9. Catalpa 10. Great Outside 11. Human Patterns
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Beanfield | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | PIAS UK/Sony DADC | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Beanfield: Jan Krause, Tobias Meggle, Michael Reinboth.Additional personnel: Boris Geiger, Bajka (vocals); Till Sahm (Fender Rhodes piano); Thomas Simmerl, Max Weissenfeldt (drums).Beanfield's second is a dandy slice of left-of-center technojazz that trips the light fantastic and just dares you not to get up and shake your booty. Well, not quite. This isn't just mindless dance-floor fodder but beat-crazy groove tastiness created for interactive home listening. "Corso" simply falls over itself in a jumble of perky bass, funky electric piano licks, and an attitude that says that '70s fusion wasn't so bad after all-provided you give it a jolt of '90s digital cred."Abstractions" lays on Beanfield's rich electronic heritage a bit thicker, earmarked by Tangerine Dream-ish atmospheres and gauzy electronics traveling down numerous pockmarked Rhodes. Ambient jazz, perhaps Out in the Beanfield, it's "Great Outside," the stop-start rhythm majesty of which just begs you to come out and play. Have fun picking the cream of this crop.
Editorial Reviews 5 out of 5 - ...one of the most soulful records I've heard all year....an album of musical conversations - not least of which is the dialogue between digital and analog, silicon and flesh-and-blood....HUMAN PATTERNS is as deep as it gets. Alternative Press (03/01/2000)
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