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Higher Ground Soylent Green Live in Germany 1999
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The track "Higher Ground" of the nutrient album of Soylent Green was a centerpiece of the album & style of this band. Heavy psychedelic guitars, drony polyrhythmic synths, doors like bass lines and an amazing pulse by drummer Jos Zoomer with long long arrangements so familiar of the dance music of the nineties. It was amazing how everything was played live by the band and keyboard player Math Fuzzy (aka Martin van de Oetelaar) who decided to leave out the risks of a laptop totally. The slide Overtones of the electric guitar intro remind us of Ry Cooder like atmospheres and the song structures and parts are totally based on the pulsing bass line of bass player Eric Fox. The verses are accompanied by wide open voicings of the guitar and Peter Gabriel like moods and vocals by singer Marco van der Aar, The pre-chorus has a kind of edgy U2 vibe while preceding the release of the POP album with similar kind of mixtures of pop, songwriter and electronic music. The Chorus is haunted and results in a climax at the end with the total mayhem of slides electronic and production Wizardry of Hans "Capricorn" Weekhout. Forgive us that the live versions sometimes even exceeded the album playing time of 9 minutes. Hope we didn't bore you. Visit my website on http://www.jackpisters.nl/ Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jack.pisters Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackpisters Mail me at jackpisters@me.com Track 08 from Soylent Green - Nutrient Soylent Green Are: Marco van der Aar - Vocals Jack Pisters - Guitars and Sitar Eric Fox - Bass Jos Zoomer - Drums Martin van den Oetelaar - Keyboards Produced by Hans Weekhout, coproduced by Jack Pisters All compositions by Pisters/Fox/Soylent Green (Copyright Control) except track 2: Composed by G. Marshall/A.Vowles/R. del Naja/W. Cobham/S. Nelson, published by Island music, inc/Chippewa Music (BMI) track 4: Composed by Steve Miller, published by Sailor Music Ascap Additional keyboard arrangements by Jack Pisters and Hans Weekhout backing vocals on 'Way Down': Maurice Bom Engineered by Hans Weekhout Additional engineering by Servee Wijsen and Hans Ravestein Recorded at Studio Groenland, Bussum, The Netherlands Mastering and digital editing by Servee Wijsen at Bullet Sound Studios, Nederhorst den Berg, The Netherlands
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