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A follow-up to Hymn of the Master, which marked the Black Sun Ensemble's re-activation in 2002, Starlight offers a blend of heavy space rock anthems following in Hawkwind's footsteps and drug-abused psychedelic songs with a North African flavor. If Jesus Acedo's guitar playing takes center stage in most tracks, it is Eric Johnson's production, writing, and vocals that keep the album together. The core of the band is completed this time by Brian Maloney (sax), Otto Terrorist (percussion), and the versatile Duane Norman, who comes close to playing a different instrument in each piece: his credits include flute, clarinet, trumpet, sax, guitar, and bass. "Jewel of the Seven Stars" kicks things off with a stretched-out Arabic-sounding jam. "Loki's Monstrous Brood" gets close to being funky lumberjack-style, which is actually better than what may transpire from other observations. The instrumental "The Lycian," which is relentlessly heavy, and the obsessing "Arabic Satori" (featuring Joseph Graves' stream-of-consciousness lyrics) provide the disc's two highlights, while the bland ballad "Sun Beam Angel" and the obligatory acoustic guitar number "Tralaine" could have been left off. The playing is not always as tight as you would expect from a band that's been around for 15 years, but Starlight has enough strong moments -- and far-out acid guitar solos -- to send you flying on your way. ~ François Couture
Recorded at Slow Burn Studios, Tucson, Arizona in 2001.
Personnel: Jesus Acedo (vocals, guitar); Eric Johnson (vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, electric piano, synthesizer, percussion); Joseph Graves (vocals, percussion).
Black Sun Ensemble: Jesus Acedo, Joseph Graves, Eric Johnson, Brian Maloney, Duane Norman, Otto Terrorist.
Starlight Music | List Price | $15.98 (You save $2.13) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Jazz, Psychedelic | | Label | Camera Obscura | | Orig Year | 2003 | | All Time Sales Rank |  251934  | | CD Universe Part number | 6522771 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 18, 2003 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Eric Johnson | | Engineer | Eric Johnson | | Personnel | Eric Johnson - vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, electric piano, synthesizer, percussion
Brian Maloney
Duane Norman
Jesus Acedo - vocals, guitar
Joseph Graves - vocals, percussion
Otto Terrorist
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Black Sun Ensemble Starlight Songs Purchase Starlight CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Mike Bloomfield Super Session CD (1968) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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A surprise best-seller when it was first released, this mostly improvised pairing of singer/keyboardist/producer Al Kooper with two major guitar heroes of the day sounds fascinating all these years later precisely because of the distance of time--nobody makes records like this any more. The material runs the gamut from folk pop (covers of Donovan and Dylan), to blues ("Albert's Shuffle," "You Don't Love Me"), to heady jams ("His Holy Modal Majesty"), to big-band jazz ("Harvey's Tune").
All the tunes make effective templates for the kind off-the-cuff music-making that in less capable hands might have resulted in simple noodling. In fact, although Bloomfield and Stills don't play together on any of the cuts (Bloomfield played on one side of the original LP, Stills on the other), all three principals get off lots of good licks and producer Kooper has some interesting tricks up his sleeve, as in the over-the-top phasing he lavishes on "You Don't Love Me." The only real disappointment here is that Stills, a far better singer than Kooper, never opens his mouth.
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COME AWAY WITH ME won the 2003 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical).
"Don't Know Why" won the 2003 Grammy Awards for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Arif Mardin won the 2003 Grammy Award for Producer Of The Year (Non-Classical).
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
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