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It's nearly impossible to listen to 4 Hero's Two Pages without thinking about the incredible success enjoyed by the jungle movement (and Roni Size's New Forms LP in particular) during the four-year gap which separated Dego and Mark Mac's second album from their third. With LTJ Bukem, the duo were one of the first jungle acts to desert hardcore for the astral drift of jazz-fusion atmospheres, and Two Pages is about as fusion-soaked as it gets. The first of the two discs includes the more downtempo R&B, almost orchestral side of 4 Hero, quite indebted to jazz luminaries like Pharoah Sanders, Lonnie Liston Smith and Roy Ayers. Many of the instruments are live contributions, while vocalists as wide-ranging as poet Ursula Rucker and Digable Planets rapper Butterfly make appearances. The second disc is the dancefloor (read: tighter) half of the album, skirting through dense soundscapes of paranoid breakbeats. As could be expected, more than two hours of music is way too much for listeners to work their way through, and a heavy editing job would have made this a stellar album instead of the flawed and somewhat bloated album it turned out to be. For drum'n'bass fans, the real highlights come with second-disc tracks like "We Who Are Not as Others" and "In the Shadows" -- as it is, they're so terrific as to nearly justify purchase by themselves. (The American version of Two Pages edited the album down to fit on a single disc, and also added several tracks not available on the British two-CD version.)
© John Bush /TiVo
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Brian Wright, Violin - Everton Nelson, Violin - Ursula Rucker, Composer, FeaturedArtist, LeadVocals - Luke Parkhouse, Drums - DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer - Face V. Walsh, BackgroundVocals - Andy Hamill, DoubleBass - Sally Ward, Viola - Gay Westerfhoff, Cello - Jill Alexandra, LeadVocals
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Brad Munn, Percussion - Luke Parkhouse, Drums - DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Helen Thomas, Cello - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer - Natalia Bonner, Violin - Sarah Button, Violin - Leon Mar, AcousticGuitar, BassGuitar - Naomi Fairhurst, Viola - Carol Crosby, LeadVocals - C Morris Jones, Harp
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Brian Wright, Violin - Everton Nelson, Violin - Luke Parkhouse, Drums - DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer - Gay-Yee Westerhoff, Cello - Samantha, LeadVocals - Andy Hamill, DoubleBass - Leon Mar, MixingEngineer - Sally Ward, Viola
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Everton Nelson, Violin - Luke Parkhouse, Drums - DEGO, Composer - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Catherine Browning, Violin - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer - Face V. Walsh, LeadVocals - Niles Hailstone, Trumpet - Andy Hamill, DoubleBass - Sophie Sarota, Viola - Suphala, Tabla - Leon Mar, BassGuitar - Andrew Nice, Cello - Simon Wells, Guitar
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Brian Wright, Violin - Everton Nelson, Violin - Face, LeadVocals - Luke Parkhouse, Drums - DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer - Gay-Yee Westerhoff, Cello - Andy Hamill, DoubleBass - Andrew Nice, Cello - Maritza Bulcuck, Viola - Paul Weinreb, Piano
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Brad Munn, Percussion - Luke Parkhouse, Drums - DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer - Natalia Bonner, Violin - Sarah Button, Violin - Leon Mar, BassGuitar - Fiona Griffith, Viola - Quinton, Trumpet - Anna Chalmers, Cello
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Ishmael Butler, Composer - Brian Wright, Violin - Everton Nelson, Violin - DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer - Gay-Yee Westerhoff, Cello - Andy Hamill, DoubleBass - Sally Ward, Viola - Ish Aka Butterfly, LeadVocals - Wendy Weir, LeadVocals - Ish (aka \"Butterfly\"), FeaturedArtist
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Brad Munn, Percussion - DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Helen Thomas, Cello - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer - Face V. Walsh, BackgroundVocals - Natalia Bonner, Violin - Sarah Button, Violin - Fiona Griffith, Viola - Quinton, Trumpet - Alex Stavv, Percussion
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Patrice Rushen, Composer - Brad Munn, Piano - Luke Parkhouse, Drums - DEGO, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Leon Mar, BassGuitar - Carol Crosby, LeadVocals
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Brian Wright, Violin - Everton Nelson, Violin - Brad Munn, Percussion - DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer - Leon Mar, BassGuitar - Carol Crosby, LeadVocals - Andrew Nice, Cello
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
DEGO, Composer - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
DEGO, Composer, Keyboards - 4Hero, Producer, MainArtist - Marc Mac, Percussion - Mark Anthony Clair, Composer
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
Albumbeschreibung
It's nearly impossible to listen to 4 Hero's Two Pages without thinking about the incredible success enjoyed by the jungle movement (and Roni Size's New Forms LP in particular) during the four-year gap which separated Dego and Mark Mac's second album from their third. With LTJ Bukem, the duo were one of the first jungle acts to desert hardcore for the astral drift of jazz-fusion atmospheres, and Two Pages is about as fusion-soaked as it gets. The first of the two discs includes the more downtempo R&B, almost orchestral side of 4 Hero, quite indebted to jazz luminaries like Pharoah Sanders, Lonnie Liston Smith and Roy Ayers. Many of the instruments are live contributions, while vocalists as wide-ranging as poet Ursula Rucker and Digable Planets rapper Butterfly make appearances. The second disc is the dancefloor (read: tighter) half of the album, skirting through dense soundscapes of paranoid breakbeats. As could be expected, more than two hours of music is way too much for listeners to work their way through, and a heavy editing job would have made this a stellar album instead of the flawed and somewhat bloated album it turned out to be. For drum'n'bass fans, the real highlights come with second-disc tracks like "We Who Are Not as Others" and "In the Shadows" -- as it is, they're so terrific as to nearly justify purchase by themselves. (The American version of Two Pages edited the album down to fit on a single disc, and also added several tracks not available on the British two-CD version.)
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:35
- Main artists: 4hero
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
1998 Mercury Records Limited 1998 Mercury Records Limited
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