The Primatives [Explicit Lyrics]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
The Primatives, a collaboration between a spoken word artist, Justin Bailey, and a jazz/world music guitarist, Omar Rane, is destined to become a cult classic in the abstract art-music poetry scene. The sound is filled out with a host of other musicians and insturments including Digery Doo, Accoustic and Electric Bass, Hand Drums and Saxophone. The grooves are GREAT and the story telling is at once engaging, hilarious and profound. If you want to check out something truly unique in a world of clone music and clone bands then Don't Miss This Disk...

The Lovers of Kali Yuga
Average customer rating:

Atmospheric, deep, emotional, energetic, groovey, superior.

Thunder

profound journey

The Lovers of Kali Yuga
The Primatives
Manufacturer: The Primatives
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
Folk Rock | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005RJBL
Release Date: 2001-10-11

Tracks:

The Dragon's Song
Here Come the Primitives
I'm in Love
Question My Love
Can't Stop
Never Again
Lovers

Album Description

[From a world seen through the eyes of an ancient and dying guardian in The Dragon's Song to the rocking bluegrass style of Can't Stop with its stark truthfull message about the life of an artist, The Lovers of Kali Yuga is a tale of life in the "age of materialism". The last track, Lovers is a soft, but not squishy, song of a truer love at last after a long history of failed love. "Because you're tough; because you've had enough"]

The Lovers of Kali Yuga began as a recording session in a remote cabin in the wild west Badlands of North Dakota. Most of the original tracks were done there. Later in PA we got together with some other musicians and recorded all the rest of the virtual tracks with the idea of going out as a rock band. However we have since abandoned that idea for a simpler style as a duo. The CD is not an exact representation of our current style but is representative of my music. It has variety, musically, and the lyrics create images that people seem to remember. The liner notes have an explanation of Kali Yuga in relation to the title. jesse s. hanson

Customer Reviews:

Atmospheric, deep, emotional, energetic, groovey, superior........2004-09-12

This is, honestly and truly, one of the greatest CDs to debut since the early seventies when musical entities such as Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors and The Rolling Stones where in their prime and releasing pinnacle works of involved genius based on their own personal styles, philosophies, emotions and basic life.

The Primatives' The Lovers of Kali Yuga is of a similar stature and unique worth. Music is a major part of humanity, and the Primatives are a superb reflection of theirselves just like The Stones were when they played out their songs with all of their spare energy. But enough of my love affair with the bands and artists of old, let's get to the hear and now.

The Lovers of Kali Yuga is a masterpiece that I can't even articulate accurately into a massive block of words. First of all, I'll address the band's overall personal sound. This particular work from the Primatives is more produced and involves more insturments than their live performances. This fact is used to great effect, further solidifying the already excellent songs, and turning the Lovers of Kali Yuga from just an album with excellent songs, into an album with excellent songs that also serves as a complete experience with a flow and a pulse. But The Primatives as a basic band is based on the vocalist (Jesse Hanson) with an intensely emotional and tremendously good-sounding singing voice, who also plays guitar substantially well. The band also contains the percussion/flutist (Lila) and bass (Jack) who both participate in the backing harmony vocals that are totally entrancing. The Primatives come together to create one of the most satisifying band sounds, especailly of such a nature, I know of. On this CD their songs aren't as musically varied and diverse as many other of the greatest artists I've heard, but this fact actually makes for a good effect in that their band sound is fullfilling, complete, and solid enough that typical variament is not required.

To get to the songs themselves, The Primatives' songs are superbly expressive, personal, and intellectual, while still entirely retaining a stone-cold groove and entertaining playing/meldoy (good for grooving or dancing even) so that you don't even need to listen to or understand any of the lyrics. In fact, the first time I listened to the Primatives I didn't think there was anything to their lyrics because I didn't listen to them, I was just caught in their hypnotic, vigorously rythmic music of undeniably good musical content (regarding song structure). It was only after that I listened to the lyrics, and realized how deeply meaningful they are, and this continues to happen every time I listen to more Primatives lyrics. There are few bands (maybe even none!) with lyrics that I relate to so truly. The songs on The Lovers Of Kali Yuga can (lyrically) at times be very relevent to today's world, at other times provide a well articulated and intellectually interesting window into the songwriter's soul, and at other time be of a fantasy-nature, taking you away into a seperate mentality and mind. Musically their are many hard-driven acoustic guitar lines with excellent solos to accompany the soullful and power-driven singing and performing from all of the musicians. There is also itense and well-fitting electric guitar soloage, sometimes slowly mourning and crying, other times dancing with unneasy health, to accompany the music.

The CD has a number of stand-out tracks. From the opening Dragon's Song that is an epic (8 minutes +) trip into the mind and soul of a dying dragon that had been gaurding the earth, hear its anguished desires and thoughst as it makes the final flight through Earth's sky. It contains a memorable chord pattern and a sorrowful electric guitar accompaniement throughout the song, with amazing vocals & harmony. The second highlight would be Here Come The Primitives, as it uses an extremely powerful chord shuffle and acoustical solos and the heartfelt vocals to display images of life in the current world with a bit of spirtuality thrown in here and there. The song all together is breathtakingly powerful, it almost makes me break down.

The third highlight would have to be Never Again, this song is all electric guitar but it's acoustic-ish style (meaning that it's not Jimi Hendrix or Robin Trower). This song is even more breathtaking than the other great songs on the album, it is musically arranged with the guitar/vocal stylings and the drum placement to create an emotional affect that is just uncomprehendable, it's brilliant. To accompany that it has very personally-meaningful lyrics that are also easy to relate to and untouchably perfect for the song. And even on top of that it has a long, groovey style that reminds me of the long groovey style that most of the songs on Neil Young's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere have. It's a must-hear song as far as I'm concerned, because it is an accomplishment of vision and music.

Other songs to mention would be Can't Stop and Question My Love. Question My Love is another fast-paced, feeling-induced romp with strong vocals and it has electric guitar soloing accompaniment. Its lyrical content revolve around the singer's inability to truly love, and lack of faith in his emotions because of his understanding. It's one song I relate to most accurately, but the reason I like it above all else is it's overall feel and rythmic dance groove, with it's energy-using, flustered vocals and powerful production.

Can't Stop is a song that focuses on the vocal harmony of the band with a cosmic dance rythm-groove that almost rivals Question My Love in it's fast-paced style. Lyrically it's a song written from the perspective (most likely an honest pespective from the writer) of being an artist and having to face all the things that people say and do, people hating your music and all that stuff. It's pretty meaningful, especailly when given in a perspective beyond just artistry and about life in general. Another one I relate too and it seems very easy to relate to for other people (similar to songs from Robin Trower like Too Rolling Stoned, it's just something about the world that most people come in counter with, in Too Roling Stoned's case having to work your butt off), the lyrics are provacitive and interesting. But like with most of their songs, I like them so much because they're good on multiple levels, lyrically and musically, meaningfully and physically.

Truly a wonderful CD, that was put together just perfectly to convey mood and reveal its musical worth (for intellectuality or just for fun). I hope the CD will get more of the credit it deserves eventually, or rather I just hope more people can enjoy it.

Also look out for their 2nd CD when it comes out, as I have heard many of the songs on it and it will be most likely a very worthy follow-up.

Note: If you want to get this CD, since Amazon.com doesn't have it, go to www.CDbaby.com/theprimatives (FYI, Amazon.com, if this tag is against the rules, feel free to remove it from my reveiw. I just wanted to note how people could get the CD because it doesn't appear that Amazon will be getting any more in, and plus they can hear samples of the music at that site, but take any of my review off if you don't want it there.)

Thunder.......2001-10-31

Thunder: Not the loud scary kind but the rumbling under the surface rolling kind that seems to recall someplace in time and space grander than the space you're currently occupying.

That underneath kind of rolling thunder has made it's way out of the Badlands of North Dakota in the form of Jesse Hanson and his fine band The Primitives.

Haunting, soulful, voice, swirling someplace between Neil Young and Bob Dylan and lyrical content laden with a yearning for no less than the simplicity of a world we'd feel safe wrapping ourselves up when each day begins to unfold.

Feel safe, wrap yourself up one morning in your favorite blanket on your favorite old chair, cup of coffee, your lover or your dog at your side, and spend some time with your own vision of that world or better yet your memory of it.

And, oh yeah, you won't be disappointed if you bring The Primitives along with you.

profound journey.......2001-10-30

These two gentle souls take us on a profound journey into the trials and tribulations of our times, only to emerge soaring with joy and hope. Allow yourself to ride on the waves of the soft, rhythmic intensity of their music, words and images. You'll be glad you did.