Woman's Gotta Have It (CD) ~ Cornershop Cover Art

Woman's Gotta Have It (CD)

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DISC 1 for Woman's Gotta Have It (CD) Album By Cornershop
1   6am Jullander Shere  
2   Honk Kong Book Of Kung Fu  
3   My Dancing Days Are Gone  
4   Call All Destroyer  
5   Camp Orange  
6   Never Leave Yourself (Vocal overload mix)  
7   Jamsimran King  
8   Wog  
9   Looking For A Way In  
10   7.20am Jullander Shere  
 

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Option (3-4/96, p.99) - "...Imagine an Indian Tom Waits collaborating with Tricky and you'll be headed toward the ballpark..."
Alternative Press (2/96, p.57) - "...Cornershop are definitely indie, and, quite possibly, the true heirs of '70s punk....They know what they want to do, and they're going to do it, regardless. Anglo-Indian, they wear their mixed heritage on their sleeves..."

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Cornershop: T. Singh (vocals, bass); Parsley, Sasha Andres (vocals); Wallis Healy, A. Singh, Ben Ayres (guitar); Saffs (sitar, keyboards); Nick Simms (drums); Pete Hall (percussion).
Recorded at Stayfree, Leicester, England and West Orange, Preston, England.
As their name suggests, Cornershop (slang for Indian-owned grocery stores in Britain), features a musical hybrid of the band's East meets West influences. Their sophomore stab, WOMAN'S GOTTA HAVE IT, is one of the most original and innovative albums of 1995. The band started in 1992 as a hardcore group called General Havoc, when brothers Tjinder and Avtar Singh and their best friend Ben Ayers were still in college.
Their music ranges from Velvet Underground-styled garage/guitar-based rock sung in English ("Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu," and "Call All Destroyer"), to traditional Indian music that's chanted in Hindi and backed by sitar, dohiki and tablas ("6 A.M. Jullander Shere," and "My Dancing Days Are Done"). Often, the orchestration is updated with synthesizer, dance beats and samples giving the music it's own unique identity. Their best songs, however, combine the two disparate influences: "Camp Orange" samples tribal chanting over trip-hop beats, while the poppier "Wog" combines Ovation-like guitar strumming, tribal chanting and lyrics sung in both English and Hindi. On "Wog," Tjinder sums up the underlying premise of this original sounding album: "This western Oriental's going full circle."

Album Description

As their name suggests, Cornershop (slang for Indian-owned grocery stores in Britain), features a musical hybrid of the band's East meets West influences. Their sophomore stab, WOMAN'S GOTTA HAVE IT, is one of the most original and innovative albums of 1995. The band started in 1992 as a hardcore group called General Havoc, when brothers Tjinder and Avtar Singh and their best friend Ben Ayers were still in college.
Their music ranges from Velvet Underground-styled garage/guitar-based rock sung in English ("Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu", and "Call All Destroyer"), to traditional Indian music that's chanted in Hindi and backed by sitar, dohiki and tablas ("6 A.M. Jullander Shere", and "My Dancing Days Are Done"). Often, the orchestration is updated with synthesizer, dance beats and samples giving the music it's own unique identity. Their best songs, however, combine the two disparate influences: "Camp Orange" samples tribal chanting over trip-hop beats, while the poppier "Wog" combines Ovation-like guitar strumming, tribal chanting and lyrics sung in both English and Hindi. On "Wog", Tjinder sums up the underlying premise of this original sounding album: "This western Oriental's going full circle".

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