3-D – Future Primitive

By on June 25, 2007

Those with good memories will recall that David Bowie’s backing band in the early 70s, The Spiders From Mars. The drummer was a certain Mick “Woody” Woodmansey on drums and thirty years on, 1-D is joined by his two drumming sons Nick and Dan to form 3-D (geddit?)


I’ve never understood the ‘less is more’ concept preferring the hedonistic ‘the more the better’. In terms of drumming, that skool would cover a range of Earth Wind & Fire to Adam and the Ants to Keepintime to the real orchestras in or Bahia with a hundred, or even five hundred drummers.
However, you’ve got to be mindful of appealing to just a constituency of The Drummer magazine subscribers or Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum as there’s always a risk that the end result sounds more like a drumming circle exercise than a listenable/danceable album.
The initial recordings from LA’s Shrine Auditorium have been transformed such that Future Primitive doesn’t have that problem.
‘Pharoah’s Groove’ starts a little ambient but soon gets into the beats of a king of the desert.
Gongs, congas, cymbals add to the atmosphere which gets really dark on the next track, the suitable entitled ‘Shady’. This is a jungle drum workout with the flute to scare the pants off ya — especially with some synth weirdness at the end.
One of Airto’s greatest tracks ever was ‘Celebration’ and here’s another where the 3-D drum troop effect works really well. The next track, ‘Concrete Jungle’ starts on a similar theme but with a throbbing bass line and keys from a jazz- period it’s a bit like Weather Report meets the Black Umfolosi Welly Boot Dancers
Each track progresses into tunes, like the funky beat of ‘Funk Shui’ with a dirty rock solo which reminds me that I must get out Dolls’ ‘Stranded In The Jungle’. Apart from the title of, ‘A Starman’s Song’ there’s not a particularly obvious Bowie link to it. In fact, it sounds like Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood but it works a treat as the introduction to ‘Native Space’. This is the highlight of the eleven tracks as it’s bang on in a cosmic Spiritual zone of samba with beautifully crafted synths and strings. No remix required here as it’s going to sound great on 12″; perhaps only could add something to it?
No surprise that the trio end on a drum piece that gathers momentum into a frantic ‘solo’; shove this into a ‘Many Are Called But Few Get Up’ or ‘Moby Dick’ mixtape.
I recommend that you check the www.3-dproject.co.uk site for more background on the project, video and sound samples.
Hectic Mix nomination: ‘Native Space’, ‘ Sunset’ ‘Shady’, ‘Safromento’. ‘Drumatik’
Reviewed: 3-D — Future Primitive (3-D) Release date: May 2007
Drums — Mick Woodmansey, Nick Emanative, Dan Woodmansey
Tracklisting:
1. Pharoah’s Groove (4:34)
2. Shady (4:21)
3. Celebration (3:36)
4. Concrete Jungle (4:52)
5. Funk Shui (4:06)
6. A Starman’s Song (Excerpt) (0:51)
7. Native Space (4:26)
8. Safromento (3:31)
9. Symphonic Break (3:29)
10. Voodoo Sunset (4:39)
11. Drumatik (4:08)
Links:
www.3-dproject.co.uk
Greatest rock solo of all time: Man — ‘Many Are Called But Few Get Up’ Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth
www.mickeyhart.net
Welly Boot Dance en wikipedia

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    • Bongo Manic

      3-D will be playing their debut album at the WOMAD festival on the 29th July.
      They appear at 5pm on the Radio 3 stage….some of the performance is going out live on Radio 3!
      Check out the album (and purchase it!) at http://www.3-dproject.co.uk

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