The Imagine Project |  | Artist: Herbie Hancock
Label: Herbie Hancock Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 282
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.1 x 0.3
UPC: 766929948426
EAN: 0766929948426
ASIN: B003HG5WN4
Release Date: June 21, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | Imagine (Featuring Pink, Seal, India Arie & Jeff Beck) | | • | Don t Give Up (Featuring Pink and John Legend) | | • | Tempo De Amor (Featuring Ceu) | | • | Space Captain (Featuring Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks) | | • | The Times, They Are A Changin (Featuring The Chieftains and Lisa Hannigan) | | • | La Tierra (Featuring Juanes) | | • | Tamitant Tilay/Exodus (Featuring K Naan and Los Lobos) | | • | Tomorrow Never Knows (Featuring Dave Matthews) | | • | A Change is Gonna Come (Featuring James Morrison) | | • | The Songs Goes On (Featuring Chaka Khan, Anoushka Shankar and Wayne Shorter) |
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Product Description
Herbie Hancock's Imagine Project is an unprecedented international recording and film project featuring collaborations between music legend Herbie Hancock and a dozen superstars from every region of the planet. It utilizes the universal language of music to express its central themes of peace and global responsibility. The album combines Herbie s genre defying musical vision with the local musical identities of cultures from around the world.
Herbie's last two efforts, 2008's Grammy Album of the Year River: The Joni Letters sold over 750,000 units worldwide and 2005's Possibilities sold over one million units INTERNATIONALLY.
Album Description
Herbie Hancock's 2010 release, Imagine Project, is an unprecedented international recording and film project featuring collaborations between music legend Herbie Hancock and a dozen superstars from every region of the planet. It utilizes the universal language of music to express its central themes of peace and global responsibility. The album combines Herbie's genre defying musical vision with the local musical identities of cultures from around the world.
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 Profound superstar meeting June 22, 2010
Bodhi Heeren (Copenhagen)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
It's not always projects studded with superstars are artistically frugal and satisfying. But here Herbie Hancock and producer/bassist Larry Klein have collected a host of renowned singers and musicians for a truly creative and impressive album. And a CD with an uplifting message of love, peace and understanding. In many ways refelecting Hancock's years long immersion in Buddhism.
In the vein of Joe Zawinul or Santana this is really a melting pot of world music influences, putting an African spin on the title track, while Dylan's "The Times They Are A changing" is presented as a fascinating mix of Irish - vocalist Lisa Hannigan and The Chieftains - with a surprise African finish by the intricate guitarist Lionel Loueke.
There is pure Brazilian jazz-pop with Céu, a surprisingly psychedelic "Tommorow Never Knows" with Dave Matthews. A grooving take on the old Joe Cocker hit "Space Captain" with Susan Tedeschi and her husband guitar star Derek Trucks . While the closing track "The Song Goes On", recorded in Mumbai, is in a beautiful Indian space, Hancock and old friend Wayne Shorter teaming up with sitar goddess Anoushka Shankar while Chaka Khan and K. S. Chitra shares the vocals.
Pink, Seal, Jeff Beck, Alex Acunã, India.Arie, Marcus Miller, Los Lobos and a host of others contribute to the fun. And lots of praise for Klein's once again superb production: multi layered and crystal clear and yet with a certain warmth and 'live feeling'. And ofc over and around it all the impressive piano and keyboard work of the man himself.
Some wild imagination... June 21, 2010
Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
"Possibilities" and the Grammy winning "River: The Joni letters" found Herbie Hancock collaborating with artists as diverse as Joss Stone, Corinne Bailey Rae, Tina Turner, John Mayer, Angelique Kidjo, and Carlos Santana on songs that were mostly covers.
"The imagine project" continues that but with a concept of love and world unity, and different sounds from around the world. "Imagine" features India.Arie, Seal, Pink, Jeff Beck (on guitar) and some African chanting as well as Hancock's delicate tinkling of the ivories. The atmospheric "Don't give up" features John Legend and Pink.
"Tempo de amor" features Céu and has a Latin feel (of course) and some great guitar and bass. The Bluesey organ-driven "Space captain" has an anthemic Gospel-style chorus and features the soulful Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. "The times, they are a' changing" features The Chieftains and Lisa Hannigan (who was on the absolutely gorgeous "Don't explain" on "Possibilities") and is a slow shuffle with sprinklings of horns and sitar.
"La tierra" features Juanes and is a beautiful Tango, "Tamitant Tilay/Exodus" is desert Blues with an Arabic touch featuring K'naan, Los Lobos and Tinariwen and sampling Bob Marley's "Exodus".
"Tomorrow never knows" has a psychedelic Middle Eastern feel and features The Dave Mathews Band, "A change is gonna come" is slowed down even more than the original and features James Morrison, and closing is the sitar-drenched "The song goes on" featuring Chaka Khan, Anoushka Shankar and Wayne Shorter giving an Indian sound.
Once again, thank you Mr. Hancock! June 25, 2010
hihowrya (RI USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
What can I say here? Just when one feels in the middle of some sort of ugly, depressing void, when there is virtually nothing being currently produced worth listening to, Herbie comes along with something to knock us O-U-T!!! And for his 70th birthday no less. Who else but Herbie could bring together these incredibly talented and diverse musicians and make one cohesive whole? Once again, thank you Mr. Hancock! Looking forward to the concert in Lowell!
imagine July 15, 2010
Myrna H. Patterson (cape cod)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Original and striking re-invention of favorites by well known composers (Dylan,Beatles).
Wonderful variety of styles, languages, moods. I plan to buy it for others as well.
Herbie's Interview July 29, 2010
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3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I purchased this album I was reflecting on the interview that Herbie had done on the Tavis Smiley Show on PBS in which Herbie said that his goal was to create a piece of work that has an international flavor without sounding foreign to most Americans' psychic and day by day I'm becoming more aligned with this concept.......thanks HH
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