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Chilled, atmospheric and slick- Massive Attack beware, this guy’s out to steal your thunder. ‘Just for a Minute’ is the new one from musical innovator and general British Asian music icon-
Shri and it
’s a typically striking effort.
Featuring the heavenly vocal talents of Fola Phillip and sounding like a
traditional version of Attack
’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy’, the single comes ahead of the new album ‘Seven Steps’ and is as varied as you might expect. There’s a rhythmic bass line (though it’s unconfirmed whether this is being produced from his own bow-driven bass
creation, but we like to think so), and a panpipe-
style background, again believed to be his own Indian Bamboo flute, beset to
Phillip
’s soulful voice.
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Released: September 2008
Label: Drum the Bass Records
From upcoming 5th album, ‘Seven Steps’
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The single features three versions of the track, though strangely it’s the stripped-down original version which works the best, despite some mean
mixing of Phillips
’ “On, and on and on” lyric in the others. If Ministry of Sound don’t hunt this down for their next chill-out album then they have missed a trick. A
smooth jazzy beat serves to draw this instrumentally-rich track to an
understated close- it
’s subtle, but effective.
Lyrically the song wouldn’t fill a paddling pool as the emphasis and impact of the track is undoubtedly on
the experience and you do wonder whether a bigger vocabulary would have
propelled this song even further. Nonetheless what is there is enough to strike
the chord that Shri will have wanted to, though the various mixes bundled with
the single don
’t expand as much as they might have. Sleek, discreet and sweet, worth a listen
on the comedown.
6/10 CM
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