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Sonic Tonic | 
| Artist: Ron Blake
Label: Mack Avenue
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 195123
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 673203102026
EAN: 0673203102026
ASIN: B00096S2GO
Release Date: July 25, 2005
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Invocation | | • | Chasing The Sun | | • | Your Warm Embrace | | • | Dance Of Passion | | • | Windmills Of Your Mind | | • | Shades Of Brown | | • | Sonic Tonic | | • | Tom Blake | | • | Pure Imagination | | • | Pissarro's Floor | | • | Invocation (Dance Of Fire) |
Disc 2
| • | Dance Of Passion | | • | Tom Blake | | • | Sonic Tonic | | • | Tom Blake | | • | Dance Of Passion |
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Sonic Tonic - a review September 14, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a real tonic of an album from Ron Blake that combines many musical styles and influences and mixes them into one well conceived album.Mixing straight ahead jazz,funk and Afro Carribean rhythms into a varied but enjoyable set of songs is no easy feat but Blake has really pulled it off here.
Standout tracks are "Tom Blake" which has a lively funky rhythm, "Invocation(dance of fire)" is a multi layered fusion piece with Afro Carribean overtones,"Pissaro's Floor" is the sort of piece John coltrane played during his "spiritual" period with a mellow toned sax and gentle percussion and there is even a space for Sting's "Windmills of your mind" which gets a fairly faithfull treatment considering some of the other material.
The only weak link is the title track itself "Sonic Tonic" which has a gentle carribean lilt but doesn't really go anywhere which is a shame as it genuinely is the only sub-par track on the whole album.
There is also a bonus c.d which offers 30 mins of remixes of tracks from the album.The re-mixes are,as you would expect,more danceable commercial versions of what is already on the main c.d but are enjoyable nevertheless.
This is such a varied album that i'm sure there is something for everyone to enjoy and with none of the tracks being too extreme in their musical statement/intentions it makes for a pretty easy listen.Repeated listenings are rewarded as there is far too much to absorb in just two or three sittings.
Enjoy.
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