Prize is an album by the American musician Arto Lindsay, released in 1999.[2][3] Lindsay considered it an attempt at pop music; it is one of a number of his solo albums inspired by the Brazilian music he heard while growing up in the country.[4][5][6]
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| Released | 1999 | |||
| Label | Righteous Babe[1] | |||
| Producer | Arto Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs, Andres Levin | |||
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Production
editThe album was produced by Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs, and Andres Levin. It was recorded in Bahia and New York.[7] Five of the songs are sung in Portuguese.[8] Vinicius Cantuaria and Skoota Warner contributed to the album; Beans rapped on "Prefeelings".[9][10][11]
Critical reception
edit| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [12] |
| Robert Christgau | A−[13] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [14] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [11] |
| Orange County Register | A−[1] |
| Orlando Sentinel | [15] |
Robert Christgau stated that the songs float by "on the sinuous current and spring-fed babble of a Brazilian groove bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated by the latest avant-dance fads and electronic developments."[13] The Riverfront Times wrote: "Sensuous and ripe, exotic and incandescent, Prize pulsates along rhythms whose headwaters are found in the airy heights of Brazilian tropicalia jazz."[8] Newsday thought that "the disc has the soft, understated swing of bossa nova—even Lindsay's occasionally skronk guitar doesn't much disturb its romantic patina."[16]
The Los Angeles Times noted that "this master alchemist likes to offset his love of lush, tropical music with sharp, modernist accents."[11] The Orlando Sentinel determined that "Lindsay's slightly out-of-focus singing has a dreamy gentleness that helps unite the strikingly disparate elements on Prize ... the bossa nova and samba prove perfectly compatible with elements of avant-electronica and obstreperous art-rock."[15] The Independent listed Prize as one of the 15 best pop albums of 1999.[17]
AllMusic wrote that "the drum'n'bass textures that lay on the surface of his last album like laminate are more fully integrated this time out: 'Prefeelings' combines a fractured breakbeat with salsa-fied acoustic guitar and saxophones."[12]
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ondina" | |
| 2. | "The Prize" | |
| 3. | "Pode Ficar" | |
| 4. | "Prefeelings" | |
| 5. | "Modos" | |
| 6. | "Ex-Preguiça" | |
| 7. | "Unsure" | |
| 8. | "Resemblances" | |
| 9. | "O Nome Dela" | |
| 10. | "Tone" | |
| 11. | "Interior Life" | |
| 12. | "E Ai Esqueço" |
References
edit- ^ a b Wener, Ben (October 29, 1999). "The Quick Hit". Orange County Register. p. F55.
- ^ "Arto Lindsay by David Krasnow". BOMB.
- ^ Walls, Richard C. (Dec 1999). "Best New Music". CMJ New Music Monthly. No. 76. p. 23.
- ^ Kot, Greg (28 Jan 2000). "The Evolution of an Artist". Friday. Chicago Tribune. p. 7.41.
- ^ Shatz, Adam (3 Oct 1999). "Downtown, a Reach for Ethnicity". 2. The New York Times. p. 1.
- ^ DeRogatis, Jim (January 23, 2000). "Making the connection – Lindsay makes the jump from 'noise' to Latin". Showcase. Chicago Sun-Times. p. 12.
- ^ The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. February 19, 2003.
- ^ a b Friswold, Paul. "Arto Lindsay". Riverfront Times.
- ^ "Review". SF Weekly. November 17, 1999.
- ^ Bacon, Peter (4 Dec 1999). "Arto Lindsay Prize". National. Birmingham Post. p. 7.
- ^ a b c Weingarten, Marc (23 Oct 1999). "Record Rack". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 18.
- ^ a b "Prize". AllMusic.
- ^ a b "Arto Lindsay". Robert Christgau.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 249.
- ^ a b Gettelman, Parry (19 Nov 1999). "Sensual Arto". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 9.
- ^ Lipp, Marty (19 Jan 2000). "New Sounds". Newsday. p. C7.
- ^ Walters, John L. (December 17, 1999). "Music: The best pop albums of 1999". The Independent.