- Audio CD (15 Jun 1998)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Parlophone
- ASIN: B000024B0P
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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12,444 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #10 in Music > Blues > Louisiana Blues
- #51 in Music > R&B and Soul > Classic R&B
- #56 in Music > Miscellaneous > Gospel & Spiritual
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Track Listings
| 1. Zonata |
| 2. Ki Ya Gris Gris |
| 3. Voices In My Head |
| 4. Hello God (JP Mix) |
| 5. John Gris (J Spaceman Mix) |
| 6. Party Hellfire (Album Version) |
| 7. I Don't Wanna Know |
| 8. Anutha Zone |
| 9. I Like Ki Yoka |
| 10. The Olive Tree |
| 11. Soulful Warrior |
| 12. The Stroke |
| 13. Sweet Home New Orleans |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
For those of us who long for the days when Dr John smeared himself with face paint, wore impossibly large headdresses and sang about gris-gris, gumbo ya-ya, and croker courtbullion, Anutha Zone is indeed a heartening development. For too long Dr John has paid the bills as a genteel purveyor of tasteful blues and Tin Pan Alley standards, and while it's helped him sustain a career and win Grammies, it's probably used up about an eighth of his true potential as an artist and musician. In the late 1960s, Dr John was a visionary musical alchemist, working with psychedelic imagery and funky rhythms to nab the rock crowd, then plying them with spooky swampland mythology and raw Southern R&B. On Anutha Zone, Dr John digs deep into that murky musical well once again, with stunning results. "John Gris", "Party Hellfire" and "Soulful Warrior" brilliantly fuse slow-burn grooves, sly musicianship and Dr John's elegantly gruff vocals, conjuring images of dark revelry down French Quarter back alleyways. --Marc Weingarten
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is on Anutha planet ! Quite easily the best of Dr Johns's lengthy and varied career and make no mistake.Probably the least commercial of his most recent albums as he fuses elements of R&B,Soul,Funk,Gospel,World music and along with his own trademark gravelly sounding vocals into an album that defies categorisation.
"I like Ki Yoka" has world music influences with it's African backing vocals and percussion, "Sweet home New Orleans" is probably the most heart felt & loving tribute to Dr John's home town as you'll ever hear,"Party hellfire" is worth a carefull lisen to the humourus vocals delivered in that trademrk rasping voice,"Ki Ya Gris Gris" and "John Gris" are heavily voodoo/gospel tinged and just to show that he does have a gentle side "I don't wanna know" is delivered with tenderness and warmth that goes against the grain of the album but is wellcome nevertheless.
What sets this apart from a lot of Dr John's other albums is that there is a consistent African/Voodoo/Religious/World music feel about the whole thing which i can't recall being conceived by anybody prior to this album.
Highly recommended.
"I like Ki Yoka" has world music influences with it's African backing vocals and percussion, "Sweet home New Orleans" is probably the most heart felt & loving tribute to Dr John's home town as you'll ever hear,"Party hellfire" is worth a carefull lisen to the humourus vocals delivered in that trademrk rasping voice,"Ki Ya Gris Gris" and "John Gris" are heavily voodoo/gospel tinged and just to show that he does have a gentle side "I don't wanna know" is delivered with tenderness and warmth that goes against the grain of the album but is wellcome nevertheless.
What sets this apart from a lot of Dr John's other albums is that there is a consistent African/Voodoo/Religious/World music feel about the whole thing which i can't recall being conceived by anybody prior to this album.
Highly recommended.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
How cool is this man... Album after album of glorious sounds, and THAT VOICE!
Here he collaborates with many UK musicians including Paul Weller and Supergrass, but don't let this put you off.. the work is still all that you would expect of Dr John. Another masterpiece.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Ohhhh yeah. This tha TRUE prescription.
14 Mar 2001
Format:Audio CD
From the very first notes, I knew I had something good in my hands. Unlike a previous reviewer, I don't find "the 'gris gris' stuff" old -- but then, I loved "Gris Gris" best of all Dr. John's older albums, and "Back to New Orleans" best of all his later albums, so that ought to give you an idea of where I'm coming from.
Like "Gris Gris", "Anutha Zone" partakes of the spiritual and magical in places -- but unlike "Gris Gris", "Anutha Zone" benefits from all of the higher-quality production techniques of thirty years later. You can even hear a little of "Walk on Gilded Splinters" in "John Gris", with the female backup chorus (mostly the London Gospel Community Choir).
And while I'm on the subject of backups, let me just mention how ably the good Doctor is supported by his band. Butt-twitchin rhythm provided by the likes of percussionist Sammy Figueroa and a variety of kit drummers, and powerfully sensitive guitar playing by Paul Weller, Bobby Broom and Matt Deighton.
And as for the Doctor himself? He's at the top of his form, lyrically and musically (on some of the songs, his wife Cat Yellen shares the lyric credit). My favorite line in the entire album, from the title track:
"And the lesson you can never forget / is the lesson you ain't gotten yet."
From somber and pensive to greeeezy richness to unabashed party-fonk, that gumbo-spice voice sure is to my taste, and it's never tasted better.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Great songs, over-busy production.
15 Oct 1998
Format:Audio CD
Another of Dr John's finest. However, a word must be said about John Leckie's production; Dr John's fantastic piano playing is reduced to the far distance on the mix. Pity.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Never mind the content, FEEL the voice
9 July 2000
Format:Audio CD
I have always liked Dr. John, but not always liked the music. But what a wonderful and rich evocative voice. Along with a handful of others, Captain Beefheart and John Martyn to name just two, his voice conjures up images and feelings like no other. This album is a throwback in some ways to Gris-Gris and Babylon, to be sure and is a diversion away from the blues and jazz which has characterized a lot of his career but to create visions in the mind of voodoo and swampland is an awesome gift and this album achieves this in no small part. I could talk about individual songs but I prefer the imagery and symbolism of the album as a whole. Pity Joe Cocker could not learn from this guy.
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