Yusuf - An Other Cup
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Artist: YusufEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Midday
- Heaven/Where True Love Goes
- Maybe There's A World
- One Day At A Time
- when Butterflies Leave
- In The End
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
- I Think I See The Light
- Whispers From A Spiritual Garden
- The Beloved
- Green Fields, Golden Sands
Music reviews of An Other Cup
Music Review: Welcome back, brother Yusuf!
Rating: 4 Stars
It's already been 3 years since this album was released. Along with his new release, Roadsinger, An Other Cup is proof that the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens is still amongst us making music that sing to the heart and soul. What more could we ask for?
An Other Cup is a gentle folk rock album comprising of songs that range from very good to forgettable. The very good ones include the album opener Midday (Avoid City After Dark), the remake version of I Think I See The Light, the elusive Heaven/Where True Love Goes, the beautifully written Maybe There's A World which can easily fit on Tea For The Tillerman, the wonderful In The End, and, my personal favorite, the biographical The Beloved, a song Yusuf wrote about the Prophet Muhammed, peace and blessings of God be upon him. Unfortunately, the rest of the tracks are forgettable.
Regardless of the flaws, I found An Other Cup a decent album and worthy of much appreciation. Welcome back, brother Yusuf!
Track picks:
Midday (Avoid City After Dark)
Heaven/Where True Love Goes
Maybe There's A World
In The End
The Beloved
B
Description of An Other Cup
Yusuf's (formerly Cat Stevens) first album of modern pop songs since 1978's Back to Earth. On his return to music, Yusuf says "I feel right about making music and singing about life in this fragile world again. It is important for me to help bridge the cultural gaps others are sometimes frightened to cross." More Yusuf
 The Very Best of Cat Stevens |  Majikat |  Mona Bone Jakon |
 Tea for the Tillerman |  Teaser and the Firecat |  Catch Bull at Four |
Three decades after decisively trading fame and his superstar moniker for the spiritual devotion for which his restless '70s songs seemed a perpetual quest, the singer-songwriter born Steven Demetre Georgiou has successfully resurrected Cat Stevens's muse, if not his persona. The musician whose dedicated embrace of Islam embroiled him in controversy frequently sings its praises on An Other Cup, both boldly (the Prophet-lionizing "The Beloved") and with delicate reflection ("Whispers from a Spiritual Garden" reworks Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi.) Given the political and religious misconceptions that have often plagued him, he's mused for years that his theme song should be Nina Simone's "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"; here Yusuf makes good on the promise, conjuring a cover steeped in brooding elegance with the assistance of Madonna/Dido/Rod Stewart producer Rick Nowells.Yet, as "Heaven/Where True Love Goes" attests, the musician remains as masterfully adept at blurring distinctions between spiritual and romantic ecstasies as he is at evoking his trademark idealism in the lilting harmonies of "Maybe There's a World." Fans of his vintage catalog will find intriguing riches outside the more spiritually focused works here, too, with the familiar idealism of the previously unrecorded 1968 song "Green Fields, Golden Sands" and muscular "I Think I See the Light" further evoking the glories of Cat past. The production leans towards the spare and shrewdly contemporary, whether casting the effusive opener "Midday" in Paul Simon's spirit of cross-cultural adventure, underscoring the melodic charms of "One Day at a Time," or suffusing "When Butterflies Leave" and his autobiographical cover of Simone with graceful, neo-classical strings. Considering the career time lapse, it's a remarkably strong effort, yet one inspired by a gentility and spiritual inquisitiveness that's comfortably familiar. --Jerry McCulley
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