Amethyst Rock Star

Saul Williams - Amethyst Rock Star

Amethyst Rock Star
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Artist: Saul Williams
Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Music Label: American Recordings
Soundtracks:
  1. La La La
  2. Penny for a Thought
  3. Robeson
  4. Tao of Now
  5. Fearless
  6. Untimely Meditations
  7. Om Nia Merican
  8. 1987
  9. Coded Language
  10. Our Father - Saul Williams, Williams, Rev. Saul
  11. Wine

Music reviews of Amethyst Rock Star

Music Review: Looking for Something Different
Rating: 5 Stars

This man truly has a gift when it comes to word usage. Simply put, I love this CD. It comes off very different(I think thats why I like it so much). Something like a combination of Slam Poetry, Hip Hop, and Rock. If your growing tired of mainstream music and looking for something new, refreshing, and different... look no further.

Description of Amethyst Rock Star

Performed by a raucous sextet made up of beats, bass, guitar, cello, viola, and griot, Saul Williams hip-hop sounds like modern chamber music. It's music informed as much by Hendrix's star-strangled striations and Miles Davis's alchemical electric period as it is the krunk-krunk of contemporary hip-hop. On Amethyst Rock Star Williams exorcises urban music of its self-destructive excess, channeling its rowdy energy into a ritualized raising of consciousness. The single "Penny for a Thought" breaks into jacked-up breakbeats as Williams calls out those who sell their souls into artistic slavery for the same chump change paid to their chained ancestors. He makes like a soothsayer on "Robeson," reeling off a call for the heroic figures of the past to make their presence known in the future. Williams's singing voice is as robust as his words, soaring like a veteran rock croaker; on "Fearless" he attempts to dissolve the influence of an unnameable "she" on his psyche by spontaneously bursting into song. "Coded Language," a linguistic mantra first recorded for the DJ Krust album of the same name, makes a return appearance, sounding not a bit out of place with its warp-speed breaks and nitroglycerin orchestration. Saul breaks out on the epic closer, "Wine," a torch-burning call for collective empowerment that comes off like Purple Rain for the no-age generation. --Chris Campion

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