From JohnMcGnar@aol.com Wed Dec 21 17:23:34 MST 1994 Article: 1272 of rec.music.reviews Newsgroups: rec.music.reviews Path: boulder!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!dcs.ed.ac.uk!awrc From: JohnMcGnar@aol.com Subject: REVIEW: Various Artists, _A Week Or Two In The Real World_ Message-ID: Followup-To: rec.music.misc Originator: awrc@papa.dcs.ed.ac.uk Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Reply-To: JohnMcGnar@aol.com Organization: Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University Approved: reviews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Reviews Despot) Lines: 11 Various Artists, _A Week or Two in the Real World_ Features a slew of rare, previously unlreleasd tracks by a bevy of world greats, plus samplings from the Real World and Arcan stables. The listener gets a taste of musical vasteness and a new dialogue, plus a sense of a Utopian Socialist setting. The album's producer, Peter Gabriel, wanted the WOMAD performers to get out of their own territories, and to "mix all the different colours." The result is an open and intense, deeper-than-jamming, vibrant and kicking offering--not the muddy brown that often gets laid down by such endeavors. Here you find real passion, atmosphere and some of the hippest grooves on the planet. Whether it connects to the head, the heart, or the body, Real World has another hit. (RealWorld)