Cat Stevens - Buddha & The Chocolate Box (Ltd. Edition Digi-Pak)
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Canadian Music Store CD DetailsArtist: Cat StevensEdition: Music CD Format: Limited Edition, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2000-07-25 Music Label: Umvd Labels Soundtracks:
Music reviews of Buddha & The Chocolate Box (Ltd. Edition Digi-Pak)Music Review: Tasty New Flavors
Going from Foreigner to this record is much like Jethro Tull going from Passion Play to Warchild. In fact both Ian Anderson (singer/songwriter of Jethro Tull) and Cat Stevens seemed to have tread similar ground musically on those same records as well. While Warchild was a return to the shorter song format of Ian Anderson's earlier classics, the music still reverberated with the more esoteric sounds of Passion Play. The same could be said of Buddha and the Chocolate Box. I'm one of the few Tull fans I know that really enjoys Warchild and likewise I really like this recording as well. I find this change in style from his earlier work to be an exciting one. It's not just the different approach musically but also the more complex song structures, showing that he wasn't going to stop being creative just to please fans who wanted more of the same from the past. In fact the only real throwback here to the hits of yesterday's sound is in the song Oh Very Young. Beyond that you'll find the lively celebration of the joy of Music in the opening track, echoed again in Ghost Town and Ready. Thoughtful mediations also abound in Sun/C79, Jesus, Bad Penny and my personal favorite, King of Trees. The final track, Home in the Sky, wraps up the celebration of music with it's spiritual overtones in a very short and chocolate sweet way, without being superficially sweet. Clearly this record isn't for everyone, not even Cat Stevens fans. But if you like to be challenged musically rather than have it all spoon fed to you, then you might really like this one. It's certainly one of my favorites, but then I'm hardly a typical Cat Stevens fan: my favorite has always been Numbers, but that remaster won't be issued until next month.
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