Ok
Front Cover
Media:
Audio CD
Release Date:
26/10/1998
Date Added:
11/06/2007
Price:
£8.99
Label:
Island
Artists:
Talvin Singh
EAN:
0731452455925
UPC:
731452455925
Tracks:
Disc #1
  1. Traveller
  2. Butterfly
  3. Sutrix
  4. Mombasstic
  5. Decca
  6. Eclipse
  7. OK
  8. Light
  9. Disser/Point Mentoo B
  10. Soni
  11. Vikram The Vampire
Description:

Amazon.co.uk Review OK is one phrase that's universally known and understood, and on OK Talvin Singh tries for a similar global connection. A classically trained tabla player, he's performed with Björk and Massive Attack, holds his own club nights in London, and is the leading light of the burgeoning Asian Underground movement--in other words, a man of many parts. He brings them all together here--the Bollywood strings, the kannakol patterns of Indian music, and the skittering rhythms of drum & bass and jungle--to create something that is new and thoroughly vibrant. This is Britain at the millennium, drawing on its immigrants, full of Eastern promise, and ready to dive headlong into the future. An album of both intelligence and passion, it is more than OK; it's a complete marvel. --Chris Nickson

Average Customer Rating:
3.53.53.53.53.5
Total Customer Reviews:
12
Customer Reviews:

What more can I add? 44444
Having read some of the reviews here, I am not sure if I will be able to sway prospective buyers one way or the other. I get the feeling that OK is an album that you are going to be very impressed with or find it "okay". However, what I can say about the album is that Talvin Singh is a great producer and collabortor (I am quite a fan of the Madras Philiharmonic Orchestra). Like many others, I too like the up beat Sutrix, I like the slightly more downtempo sound of Butterfly (as heard on so many Cafe Del Mar and Ministry of Sound-esque chill-out CD's). I have been a fan of world fusion for quite a while, and I think OK has done a pretty good job of getting world fusion a wider audience.

What I would like to add is if you are one of the people who like Talvin Singh, then try checking out Karsh Kale, he is from the USA and I am sure you'd like his style too.

slow and pretentious 22222
Very over-rated. Most of the album is slow and pretentious. Talvin Singh has just not got the expertise to make decent d+b tunes, no matter how skilled and talented he is in other areas. You will not be dancing.

Butterfly is admittedly a really nice tune, and Sutrix comes close. That's all.

While the indian instruments are very beautiful and evocative, and the whole thing has been very well-produced, the beats are far too light and do not move you. It all sounds too american. Not OK.

Just about OK 22222
Bought this on the basis of its Mercury prize win and positive review - and was greatly disappointed.

Opening track Traveller is almost a summation of everything that is good and bad about this CD. Naff ideas 'The World is Sound' repeated endlessly - very profound (not) - but a strong song develops with drum & bass sounds, Indian flutes and vocals from Clevand Watkiss before the track drifts of into unrelated ambient noodling for so long you become convinced another track must have started.

Too much of this CD slips by un-noticed - soundtrack music in search of a film or a Channel 4 documentary.

Sutrix is a strong track but Joi do this mix of Indian vibes & western dance / jungle so much better - check out "One and One is One".

With a good producer to channel his talent Talvin Singh might produce a great album. But this certainly isn't it.

Alright - but not stunning 33333
Some nice fast paced tracks but if you are expecting a chilled out trip like the Cafe Del Mar remix of Traveller you will be disapointed

This is so cool 55555
It combines the best in classical indian intrumentalists and excellent electronic background music. A modern day Ravi Shankar.