Bonobo - Black Sands

01 Kiara Prelude

02 Kiara

03 Kong

04 Eyesdown

05 El Toro

06 We Could Forever

07 The Keeper

08 All In Forms

09 Wonder When

10 Animals

11 Black Sands

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Ninja Tune

nice, thanks for the headz up :)

This is really nice. I haven't listened to anything by him in years it seems. Sounds like he's slightly "wonky-fied" his sound a bit, but kept the lushness intact. The strings sound beautiful. I Saw this on the Ninja Tune site as well:

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Sounds really promising. Would it be appropriate to infer from the sampler that there are limited vocals on this?

cannot wait to get my hands on this

That seems pretty un-Bonobo to me...

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  On 3/11/2010 at 7:41 PM, Enter a new display name said:

That seems pretty un-Bonobo to me...

Yeah, but I'd much rather look at Andreya than him

Love her vocals, really mellow and not too overpowering. Tea Leaf Dancers with her is one of my favorite FlyLo tracks as well.

Really like the mix. Can't wait, haven't heard from Bonobo in years.

  On 3/11/2010 at 8:22 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

  On 3/11/2010 at 7:41 PM, Enter a new display name said:

That seems pretty un-Bonobo to me...

Tea Leaf Dancers with her is one of my favorite FlyLo tracks as well.

this and his kind midas sound 'lost' remix are my favorites.

just got done listening to black sands. overall i'd say it was good. glad to hear it be an instrumental. i felt it was a bit overly jazzy and loungy sounding at times, with few stand out tracks compared to animal magic, but definitely something i'd throw on again in the background while doing something. kong and we could forever were highlights for me. kiara was a strange way to start the album, as it sounds pretty different than the rest of it.

overall 7/10.

this album is deliciously chill. i highly recommend this as background music for work, etc, if you are fortunate enough to have an environment where the music can just play throughout the day... 1009 and All In Forms are really superb, and as a bonobo fan, i appreciate the subtleties of this album.

i liked this a lot i really wish it was longer though.

Just ordered the Live Sessions ep (which I somehow missed a few years back). Some really amazing versions on there and the Four Tet remix as an added bonus.

He did a little session and chat on the Gilles Peterson show which you can listen to for a few more days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rbtcd

They played a few tracks from the new album.

It's a really good album, he dips firmly into other people's styles a few times though, starting to sound a lot like Portico Quartet or Cinematic Orchestra, and sometimes a bit too much. But whatever I really like it.

Wicked, wicked album, I must own it on vinyl.

Have been listening to this for about a week now and I have decided that I don't like it as much as his previous work. It's ridiculously well mastered and tracks like Kiara and 1009 really stand out, but most of the other songs seem like retreads of other Bonobo stuff and are just kind of too same-y bland movie soundtrack-y for me.

Same here, there's nothing on this that can compare to Animal Magic or Dial M for Monkey. I'm missing that supreme relaxed feel of a track like Kota. Not bad, but I'd rather listen to his earlier work.

Dial M for Monkey was always the highlight for me, but Black Sands is definitely pushing it...sounds really good live as well...

This album is really really good, enjoying it with some wine right now and I'm loving it!