When I Was Born For The 7th Ti (1997) (Feat. Frazer/Warfield/Belart )

Artist: Cornershop
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Label: Wea/warner Bros.
UPC: 00093624657620
Release Date: 9/16/1997
Buy.com Sku: 60143880
Item#: MR5VLW
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Sleep On The Left Side ~ Cornershop
2. Brimful Of Asha ~ Cornershop
3. Butter The Soul ~ Cornershop
4. Chocolat ~ Cornershop
5. We're In Yr Corner ~ Cornershop
6. Funky Days Are Back Again ~ Cornershop
7. What Is Happening? ~ Cornershop
8. When The Light Appears Boy ~ Cornershop
9. Coming Up ~ Cornershop
10. Good Shit ~ Cornershop
11. Good To Be On The Road Back Home ~ Cornershop
12. It's Indian Tobacco My Friend ~ Cornershop
13. Candyman ~ Cornershop
14. State Troopers (Part 1) ~ Cornershop
15. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) ~ Cornershop



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Cornershop: Tjinder Singh (vocals, guitar, dholki, DJ); Ben Ayres (guitar, keyboards, tamboura); Anthony Saffery (sitar, harmonium, keyboards); Nick Simms (drums); Peter Bengry (percussion).
Additional personnel: Paula Frazer, Lourdes Belart (vocals); Justin Warfield (rap vocals); Allen Ginsberg (spoken vocals); Robert Buller, E. Johnson, Grace Winder (strings); Ray (flute).
Producers: Tjinder Singh, Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Daddy Rappaport.
Personnel: Tjinder Singh (vocals, guitar, dholki, scratches); Lourdes Belart, Paula Frazer (vocals); Justin Warfield (rap vocals); Ben Ayres (guitar, tamboura, keyboards); Anthony Saffery (sitar, harmonium, keyboards); Grace Winder, Robert Buller, E. Johnson (strings); Ray ? (flute); Nick Simms (drums); Peter Bengry (percussion).
Recording information: 657 Holloway Road, London, England; Eastcote Studios, London, England; Sun Plantation, San Francisco, CA; West Organge Studios, Preston.
Illustrator: Thomas Bayrle.
Photographer: Catalina Gonzales.
WHEN I WAS BORN FOR THE 7TH TIME, the third album by Cornershop, is like a smiling, sun-lit reprieve amidst the pre-millennium tensions of most cutting-edge, Western pop of the end of the century. While their post-modern bricolage mirrors Beck's appropriation skills, Tjinder Singh and his mates craft an album of multi-cultural rhythms, textures and lyrical references. The one-world/one-groove outlook anticipates the 21st century with a glee born of spiritual and physical contentment, rather than Beck's new-pollution dourness.
To drive home the point of the importance of rhythm for the soul, playful beat-driven tracks are strewn throughout the album. The groovy instrumental "Butter The Soul" pits slacker record-scratching against a sitar to the shouted delight of onlookers. A sampled voice on "What Is Happening" asks the titular question of the situation in the world's capitals while the beat set up by tablas and handclaps suggests a midnight bonfire rally. Singh and the band focus on memories and emotions any listener could identify with, and then personalize and globalize them in one fell swoop.

Engineer: Alan Gregson; Philip Bagenal

Musical Guests
Paula Frazer
Justin Warfield
Allen Ginsberg

 
Artist Overview
Essentially a one-hit-wonder with an interesting backstory, England's Cornershop have to be the only multi-ethnic indie-pop band to score a hit single on both sides of the pond by paying tribute to the Bollywood film industry. 1998's "Brimful of Asha"--a jubilant mash-up (thanks to a splendid Fatboy Slim remix) of Indian sitar, dance-pop, hip-hop, and indie rock--is undoubtedly the band's biggest contribution to pop music. Cornershop, however, will also be remembered (particularly in the U.K.) for the hullabaloo they created when the group publicly challenged Morrissey over some rather suspect remarks the singer made during his mid-'90s flirtations with neo-Fascism.

Artist Influences
Asha Bhosle | Beastie Boys | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Ravi Shankar | Talking Heads | The Beatles | The Smiths | The Sugarcubes

Artist Contemporaries
Beastie Boys | Beck | Cibo Matto | Cornelius | Fatboy Slim | GusGus | Luscious Jackson | Pizzicato Five | Ravin | Sean Lennon | Solex | Stereo Total | Sugar Plant | Talvin Singh | The Cardigans | Transglobal Underground

Artist Followers
M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam) | The Go! Team


 
Compilation Appearances
Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder
Very Best Of India
Rough Trade Field Guide To Music Vol

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 09/16/1997
Original Release Date : 1997
Catalog ID : 46576
Label : Warner Alliance
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00093624657620

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.66)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."

Rolling Stone (8/21/97, pp.106-108)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...a cohesive, finely crafted LP in which the last album's low-fi funk expands into low, fat grooves, and Singh's pancultural, anti-racist lyrics become more sophisticated but no less impassioned..."

Spin (9/99, p.136)
- Ranked #34 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."

Spin (1/98, p.86)
- Ranked #1 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Albums Of The Year [1998]."

Spin (9/97, p.153)
- 9 (out of 10)
- "...Turning away from the ragged indie rock that dominated Cornership's previous music, Singh now lets the groove be his guide. A third of the tracks here are Mo'Wax--worthy instrumentals--melting pots of chunky beats, Asian drones, oddball samples, and Singh's own turntable doodles..."

Entertainment Weekly (9/26/97, p.78)
- "...Their third album mixes up hip-hop beats, rock guitar, sitars, scratching, alt-country, and Allen Ginsberg, and few bands make this musical Cuisinart so playful, accessible, and friendly..." - Rating: B

Q (6/00, p.65)
- Ranked #68 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...[An] opus of sardonic neo-Asian disco/rock/hip hop, blending chugging guitars, lazy beats, sitars and lyrics about Bollywood and masturbation..."

Magnet (11-12/97, p.64)
- "...The best music nowadays tends to be sound-inclusive, and Cornershop has 'cornered' the market with its percussive/sample-heavy, ethno-global-indie bag that's as fresh as papadum dipped in mint chutney..."

Option (11-12/97, p.89)
- "...a sprawling work that, with it's laidback beats, ear-catching samples and pleasingly anachronistic synth squiggles, sounds more than a little like Beck's ODELAY....a fun, funny and funky good time for all."

Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67)
- Ranked #11 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year."

Melody Maker (9/6/97, p.42)
- "...The breadth of vision on WHEN I WAS BORN is astonishing. It's a record you can listen to time and time again, one where you'll forever be discovering hidden nuances, more delights."

Village Voice (2/24/98)
- Ranked #3 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

NME (Magazine)
(12/20-27/97, pp.78-79)
- Ranked #6 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll.

  
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