The runway "Pretty Little Lady" has a vocal draw of piece of job that was recorded backwards as well as thence played inwards reverse, thence that it appears to audio normal. This is an instance of phonetic reversal.
There is video of the recording of "Zenergy" as well as "Resolution" works life on Victor Wooten as well as Carter Beauford "Making Music".
There's piffling inquiry that artist/victor-wooten-mn0000178114">Victor Wooten is an ambitious musician. That was evident from his kickoff ii records, but Yin-Yang easily reaches farther than whatever album he has nevertheless made. Spanning ii discs, 1 instrumental as well as 1 vocal, Yin-Yang tries a piffling flake of everything, all underneath a smoothen fusion umbrella. There's a bass showcases, worldbeat fusions, bluegrass jazz, smoothen soulful jazz amongst banjos, full-fledged urban soul, songs based simply about babe gibberish -- a piffling flake of everything, all given immaculate, glossy production. That construct clean production non solely makes the tape audio accessible, but it makes the eclecticism as well as unpredictable stylistic fusions audio familiar. Depending on your betoken of view, that's either a practiced or a bad thing -- it either agency artist/wooten-mn0000178114">Wooten is welcoming to a greater extent than listeners, or it agency that it's non challenging. And that's the foreign thing close Yin-Yang -- it's non particularly challenging, nevertheless it is complex as well as hard to digest inwards 1 sitting. That's largely because there's thence much music on the record, but it's also because artist/wooten-mn0000178114">Wooten's ideas audio improve when heard a few cuts at a time. He's a rattling talented instrumentalist as well as has some neat ideas, but a piffling champaign of report as well as editing would brand his records to a greater extent than convincing as well as compelling.
Admittedly, what Victor Wooten tin do goes good beyond conventional limits of the bass. In fact, inwards some cases, it has zip to do amongst the bass at all. In his eagerness to “sing” melodies on his 4-string electrical bass, the extraordinary bassman from Bela Fleck & The Flecktones becomes a saxophonist, a pianist, a guitarist. Stanley Clarke, Alphonso Johnson as well as Jaco Pastorius pioneered this territory as well as John Patitucci took it a pace farther past times developing uncannily fluid chops on the 6-string electrical bass.
Wooten is a chops monster himself as well as he sure gets to strut his materials on this two-CD fix (one instrumental, 1 vocal). But patch he tin play the hell out of the bass (check the sheer terminate on “Hip Bop” as well as the ultra-funky “What Crime Is It?” featuring special invitee vocaliser Bootsy Collins) he seems to accept a bigger agenda that transcends his instrument. Wooten is inwards dearest amongst melodies, as well as it shows. He gushes shamelessly on smoothen numbers similar “Urban Turban,” “Resolution” as well as “Joe’s Journey,” a paean to a fallen friend. He revisits Flecktones dry soil on “Zenergy,” featuring a invitee topographic point past times Bela on banjo, as well as ‘sings’ lyrically on “Sacred Place.”
The natural progression of Wooten’s vocal approach to the bass is to truly sing himself, which he does inwards convincing fashion on the pop-flavored mo CD, revealing a particular fondness for Roger Troutman & Zapp (“Hormones inwards the Headphones”), Prince (“Yinin’ & Yangin’,” “Singing My Song”) as well as Morris Day & The Time (“Pretty Little Lady”).
One clever runway is “Kaila Speaks,” inwards which Wooten records the musical warblings of his 13-month-old daughter, thence transcribes the natural pitches of her rap as well as scores music behind it. It’s a neat trick, 1 that guitarist Steve Vai also pulled off amongst his infant boy on a tune he called “Goo-Goo-Gak.” But Wooten’s tender rendition is particularly poignant. Kaila reprises her star plow every bit a seasoned 16-month-old on “Kaila Raps.”
Victor is reunited on this projection amongst his talented brothers Regi on guitar, Joseph on keyboards as well as Rudy on sax, who along amongst drummer blood brother Roy (a.k.a. Future Man) made upward the pre-Flecktones band, The Wootens. They all contribute mightily on this return that traverses basis music, funk, smoothen jazz, bebop, pop, bluegrass as well as beyond.
Jazz bassist Victor Wooten has function a living legend inwards the modern jazz scene. As a fellow member of Bela Fleck as well as the Flecktones, he has been astounding audiences for years. As a solo artist he makes records that are deeply musical as well as technically breathtaking. His latest effort, Wooten's latest release, Yin Yang is a 2-CD set: Yin is devoted to instrumental tracks as well as Yang is devoted to vocal-oriented tracks. Featuring special invitee artists Bela Fleck, Bootsy Collins, Peter Rowan, Carter Beau ford, Stuart Duncan, Jeff Coffin, Rod McGaha, Jonell Mosser, JD Blair, Kirk Whalum as well as the Wooten Brothers.
Victor Wooten is 1 of those rare electrical bass technocrats who learned all the correct lessons from artist-glance/55116/$%7B0%7D">Jaco Pastorius. While sounding non at all similar him, Wooten exhibits the same powerfulness to retain the groove as well as a warm midrange musical note patch demonstrating considerable prowess. On this ambitious two-CD project, Wooten runs the gamut from "wave" type instrumentals similar "Imagine This," where overdubbed basses component every bit both foundation as well as tune instruments, to sampled spoken-word pieces. Yin-Yang is definitely a solid unit of measurement affair, including 3 other Wootens--Joseph (keys), Regi (guitar), as well as Rudy (sax)--as good every bit extended solid unit of measurement members similar Victor's swain Flecktone artist-glance/31072/$%7B0%7D">Béla Fleck as well as artist-glance/76609/$%7B0%7D">Dave Matthews Band drummer Carter Beauford. Even amongst all these guests, 1 would've preferred perchance a to a greater extent than tightly edited unmarried CD that featured to a greater extent than of Wooten's instrumental individuality (on the companionship of "Singing My Song" amongst its stripped-down bass, drum, as well as vocal approach, or "Tali Lama" amongst its bluegrass tinges courtesy of artist-glance/40679/$%7B0%7D">Peter Rowan, as well as less generic "happy jazz" similar "The Urban Turban"). Nevertheless, Yin-Yang should hold upward required listening for whatever histrion or fan of electrical bass.
Track listing
Disc 1 - instrumental
"Imagine This" (V. Wooten) – 5:08
"Yinin' & Yangin'" instrumental (V. Wooten) – 4:36
"Hip Bop" (V. Wooten) – 4:03
"Joe's Journey" (V. Wooten) – 5:20
"The Urban Turban" (V. Wooten) – 2:42
"Tali Lama" (V. Wooten) – 5:17
"Zenergy" (B̩la Fleck, Carter Beauford, V. Wooten) Р6:46
"Kaila Speaks" (Future Man, V. Wooten) – 3:00
"Sacred Place" (V. Wooten) – 3:46
"Resolution" (Carter Beauford, V. Wooten) – 4:57
Disc ii - instrumental as well as vocal
"Hormones inwards the Headphones" (Michael Kott) – 4:06
"Yinin' & Yangin'" vocal version (J.D. Blair, Dwight Farrell, Jonathan Morse, V. Wooten) – 4:12
"Kaila Raps" (V. Wooten) - 4:42
"One" (V. Wooten) – 4:54
"What Crime Is It?" (J.D. Blair, Bootsy Collins, William Collins II, V. Wooten) – 4:55
"Go Girl Go" (Michael Kott) – 3:18
"Pretty Little Lady" (V. Wooten) – 3:34
"Hero" (Future Man) – 4:42
"Singing My Song" (V. Wooten) – 4:43
"Think About That" (V. Wooten) – 4:09
Personnel
Victor Wooten - bass guitar, cello, programming, background vocals, acoustic bass, electrical upright bass
Steve Bailey - bass
Carter Beauford - drums
J.D. Blair - drums, vocals, drum programming
David Blazer - cello
Kathy Chiavola - vocals
Jeff Coffin - tenor saxophone
Bootsy Collins - vocals
Billy Contreras - violin
Count Bass D - rap
Stuart Duncan - fiddle
Tabitha Fair - vocals
Béla Fleck - banjo
Joseph Wooten - organ, piano, keyboards, theremin, background vocals
Aseem Hetep - vocals
Michael Kott - cello, background vocals
Park Law - vocals
Rod McGaha - trumpet
Jonathan Morse - background vocals
Jonell Mosser - vocals
Jim Roberts - djembe, shaker
Peter Rowan - vocals
Buddy Spicher - violin, viola
Kurt Storey - violin
Allyson Taylor - vocals
Kirk Whalum - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Roger "Rock" Williams - soprano saxophone
Dorothy G. Wooten - vocals
Holly Wooten - background vocals
Kaila Wooten - vocals
Regi Wooten - acoustic guitar, guitar, wah-wah guitar
Rudy Wooten - saxophone
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