Yanni - Ethnicity

Track List: Ethnicity

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1. Rites Of Passage
2. For All Seasons
3. The Promise
4. Rainmaker
5. Written On The Wind
6. Playing By Heart
7. At First Sight
8. Tribal Dream
9. Almost A Whisper
10. Never Too Late
11. Play Time
12. Jivaeri (Jiva-Eri)

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Album Details: Ethnicity

Release Date:

02/11/2003

Label:

Virgin Records Us

UPC:

724358151602

User Reviews: Ethnicity

1. response to matthewcadarette: yanni's aw

   , February 14, 2003
   Reviewer: zhao1701b - See all zhao1701b's reviews

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   3 of 3 Yahoo! Users found this Ethnicity review helpful what kind of crackhead would actually call yanni's music boring??!?!?!?!?!
   
   If you think his music is a bunch of 4 measure repeats and hasn't evolved, over a period of 20 years, you must be a very miserable person because music just doesn't get much better.
   
   ...and what's wrong with a major 2nd modulation? If you're calling the general audience strange for responding to it, then you must be the queer one, since you're just one against 50 million.
   
   Based on your review, i doubt you could even play 4 measures and repeat it 300 times(even tho that isn't what yanni does). Or maybe your ear just can't handle the awesomeness of Yanni.
   
   You think ure so smart, matthew?
   
   Ure a dumb@$$!
   
   1. Yanni doesn't write in 5/4 time.
   2. I'd like to see you hire an orchestra, you peon of a man who calls yourself a critic...
   3. And if you got an orchestra, i'd like to see what you could do with it. Reading your review, it wouldn't get any better than a middle school orchestra sound.
   4. And if Yanni hired clowns, you'd be a part of his ensemble by now.
   5. Non-threatening modes? Do you even know how many of his works go up to 4 or 5 flats?
   
   You try to impress us with your musical technobabble jargon, hahahha. doens't work on me. i'm smarter.
   
   And as for my review of Ethinicity...
   
   It is dynamic, it is different, it is exciting, it is unquestionably Yanni.
   
   The best thing about Yanni's new albums is that you don't know what to expect because his style is always changing.
   
   I especially enjoy Rainmaker, where Yanni uses the aboriginal didgeridoo as a rhythmic instrument to give a tribal flavor.
   
   Highlights also go to Almost a Whisper and The Promise, where lyrics were added to previously composed works.
   
   However, the most dynamic element in the album is the use of electronic instruments indigenious of techno/trance and the increased use of bass drum, which is also original to techno/trance. Many sound effects commonly associated with electronica are used, and in Play Time, overdriven distorted guitars can be heard in the background along with the other electronic instruments.
   
   Also surprising, is the extensive use of the female voice. Althought he may have potentially overdone this, it does add a spirtual taste to the entire album.
   
   And, for the first time, Yanni is putting in a little touch of Irish music along with the oriental accents that are present (I would kno cuz i'm Chinese).
   
   I am really looking forward to his 2003/04 tour. Based on what I have heard, it is supposed to be the best tour yet. ...

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2. One of my top three Yanni albums

   , October 20, 2005
   Reviewer: wsheltry - See all wsheltry's reviews

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   Pros: Everything

   Cons: Nothing

   Yanni's Tribute, If I Could Tell You, and Ethnicity are the top 3 favorite CDs I have in a collection of over 400.
   
   I have chemo 2 times a week. By the time day #2 rolls around, I'm wiped. I leave my living room in complete darkness overnight. I have 6 CD's, all Yanni, in my cartridge for my CD player. The headphones go on and I sleep with several dozen of the best songs known to man playing through my head. THAT is how I have guts enough to go through Day 2 the next week.

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