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Herbie Hancock - Future 2 Future Audio CD

A fair review of the Herbie Hancock "Future 2 Future" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Herbie Hancock reviews here, or go back to the Herbie Hancock tabs.

Herbie Hancock Band: Herbie Hancock
Title: Future 2 Future
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Release Date: 2001-09-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Kebero 2: Wisdom 3: The Essence (featuring Chaka Khan) 4: This is Rob Swift 5: Black Gravity 6: Tony Williams 7: Be Still 8: Ionosphere 9: Kebero (part 2) 10: Alphabeta 11: Virtual Hornets

Withstands the test of time
. . at least, to whatever extent five years is "the test of time. "

I got this CD quite by accident sometime around 2004, and at first, it took me a while to get into it. My initial reaction was much like some of the naysayers here: too cheesy, too much spoken word/DJ/electronica, etc. It's the only CD I own that sounds anything like this; I'm really not an electronica or even jazz fusion fan. And I don't care about the 'future' concept.

However, that was then, now is now. Today, I listen to Future 2 Future all the time. It hasn't gotten old. So what happened?

First, the grooves simply reeled me in. The rhythm section is straight-up funky, especially the laid-back drums and keys. Second, the tracks are original. Each is clearly unique in sound, feel and textures, yet fits nicely with the whole. Third, on a related note, the tracks are well-arranged: they always keep shifting, subtly, until they say enough, then they're over. Good crafting is no small feat. From track to track and within each track, there's always something fresh around the corner. No getting stuck in looped nonsense as is so often the case with electronic music

Highly recommended. Great music to relax to.


The Very Top
Ask yourself, where have YOU been, what have YOU been listening to. I'm sorry, but if you didn't understand this album, then you need to be educated. And after the thousands and thousands and thousands of tracks, if you still don't understand this album, if it doesn't connect with you, then you're still numb from mind-numbing commercial music indoctrination, and your ears, and more importantly -- your mind, need to be rescued. Listen carefully, boys and girls, because Herbie is showing us the future.
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I think this is a work of art.
I think this is a great work of art. I'm not sure. To hear such a great musican working with some very contemporary arrangements. . . . this thing really turns me on. I was driving with that drum and bass with Herbie playing on it. . . man. This is bad. I mean. Plus with this strange "wisdom of the future" concept going on. Guy Called Gerald? Listen to that 24 Hour Party People thing. . . "Voodoo Ray" sounds like a reexamination of indigineous perpective in a post-modern frame-work. . . and that was in 1987. . (after that we got FSOL . . but I suppose Peter Gabriel's Security and My Life in the Bush of ghosts does some of that too. . ). . but with that "house"thing. . you get Coil's "solar lodge". . . I don't know man. . . . In a way. . THIS piece seems like a group of musicians that have been decades beyond of their contemporaries joining to together to check out "today" . . which just happens to be hot as hell and cool. but. . . I would like to see another project like this where pure feeling and having confidence in contempoary styles like drum and bass,etc. . . they can even feel free to even move past that. I think that is something Miles Davis would do. i also think this record is something that Miles davis would have liked very much actually. But. . . it is pretty intellectual. . . I don't think it is mainstream. Interesting that Drum and Bass is "mainstream" for these guys. I think this could be a required disc for musicains working with electronics these days. I did enjoy burning my tongue on this. .


An almost-classic recording
This time, however, insted of pandering so much to percieved public tastes, Herbie Hancock allows his own vision to reign, resulting in a rather cohesive work that is inspiring, groovy, thought-provoking, and pleasent to listen to. Herbie Hancock and Bill Laswell (whose work with Public Image Limited and Jah Wobble are in and of themselves worthy of recognition) team up once again to produce yet another groundbreaking work twenty years after "Future Shock," the recording whose "Rockit" single thrust HH into the mainstream eye once again.

"Keboro (Part I)" is an inspiring choral introduction, while "Wisdom" is a provocative spoken-word peice. Both of these songs lead into the groovy "The Essence," a song that features some excellent vocals. "This is Rob Swift" would be a fine song were it not for the annoyingly overproduced (and overused) scratching. "Black Gravity" is another low point, a rather forgettable peice. Herbie Hancock quickly redeems himself with the free-flowing "Tony Williams," a song that features both more excellent vocalisations and extremely impressive saxaphone work. "Be Still" is an okay enough peice, but sounds a bit too much like a retread of "Tony Williams. " "Ionosphere" is a smooth, ambient song, one that is extremelly relaxing. "Kebero (Part II) builds impressivelly upon "Kebero (Part I), allowing the concepts that were introduced in the first song to build upon themselves, develop and mature. This blends smoothly into "Alphabeta," a cool, danceable track that is both sparse and intricate. "Virtual Hornets" closes out the disc, a very clean jazz/hip-hop/rock fusion track.


the master travels
master traveling in his utopia, sampling rythm is rhytm, strings of love with his atmospheric chords backing the subliminal sounds of classical house music and grow upon it.


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