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Volume 3: Further in Time | 
 enlarge | Artist: Afro Celt Sound System
Label: Real World
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 26705
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 96
UPC: 884108009529
EAN: 0884108009529
ASIN: B001DPC3VK
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | North | | • | North, Pt. 2 | | • | When You're Falling | | • | Colossus | | • | Lagan | | • | Shadowman | | • | Life Begins Again | | • | Further in Time | | • | Go on Through | | • | Persistence of Memory | | • | The Silken Whip | | • | Onwards |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 2001
While not as out-of-left-field revelatory and astonishing as their exalted debut, nor as darkly magnetic as their sophomore follow-up, Volume 3: Further in Time finds Afro Celt Sound System fleshed out, funky, and fiercely fresh. Now a band of 20-some-odd players, the Afro Celts push forward with unbounded energy and focus, organically driven beats, and a thoroughly joyous fusion of West African and Irish traditional music enhanced with dissonant Eastern influence, psychedelic trip-hop groove, and a monster flood of sonic waves. The resultant sound is somehow both cutting-edge futuristic and primitive in its visceral virility. Demba Barry steps up with an unexpectedly punchy African hip-hop-styled vocal on "Shadowman," "Lagan" plays out into an orchestral swan dive, and, throughout, Johnny Kalsi and Moussa Sissokho come on like gangbusters with the drums. Real World label honcho and world-music champion Peter Gabriel does a stunning turn on the eminently catchy "When You're Falling," and Robert Plant contributes a powerfully epic rock vocal on "Life Begins Again." Fine as all these moments are, the centerpiece of volume 3, where the band achieves beyond perfect synthesis, is the ecstatic groove-lock on the African acid ceilidh of "Colossus." Volume 3 is the tune-in turn-on we've been waiting for. --Paige La Grone
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| Customer Reviews: Read 58 more reviews...
 Let's call this celtic electro-pop August 12, 2008
I listened to the whole album. It's a good album, not exeptional by any means. Where is the "afro"? I certainly didn't hear enough of an afro influence to warrant the inclusion in the groups name. If you like celtic influenced electro pop then this will truly rock your boat. If not...
Listen to this! June 29, 2008
I really like this record. I bought the MP3 album (love that instant gratification!) and started listening to it right away. It's on permanent rotation now when I listen to music on my laptop. Track 4, Colossus, is a good enough reason for buying the entire album, and I really like Track 7, Life Begins Again, as well. Robert Plant does a great job. Colossus is such an energetic tune that it's hard to keep still while it's playing. I like to drum along with it, which makes it a little hard to play while driving. It's kind of a spacey, celtic, drumming, fiddling, fluting mix that gets the blood pumping.
Good album - definitely worth getting. And playing over and over.
Awesome CD! November 26, 2006
I just can't get enough of this group. They have such a unique sound: the name of the group sums it up pretty well. This is an awesome CD like the others.
Unique and upbeat November 6, 2006
I was introduced to this music by a coworker and I really like it! I've always been a fan of celtic music, but this is like celtic on espresso. It's very upbeat and truly unique. I highly recommend it - enjoy!!
Incredible - the only word to describe it August 2, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My aunt put this in the car one day when we were driving to my uncle's house. I had just played the song "Chaiyya Chaiyya" from Inside Man, and she said I bet you'll like this, it's a lot of the same style. As soon as she put it on, "North" came on, and absolutely blew me away. The beautiful ambient sounds and the sparse, yet undeniably enchanting African vocals were just beautiful. By the time "North Part 2" came on, we were both drumming our hands and dancing in the car. Whoever thought of mixing African and Celtic music, then setting it to a rave/techno beat is a genius.
She bought me the CD (and also "Seed, which is great too), and I've been listening to it obsessively since. I know it's now a cliche so rate this CD 5 stars, but the beautiful, haunting melodies and the catchy, rythmic tehcno beats make this CD one of the best in my collection. It was a great find for me especially, since I'm getting sick of all the horrible pop/rock/rap that's out there. If you're like me, and you're sick of all "today's hits" and are looking for something to dance to and have a great time listening to, BUY THIS ALBUM! It is something very fresh and amazing. Aah, North 2 just came on with that awesome celtic instrument riff and dance club style techno beat. I gotta get back to dancing!
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