Editorial Reviews Each track is named after some amazing places in Arizona. "Arcosanti" is an experiment city that exists in center of Arizona. "Highway 2" is some of the most remote two lane road in America, leading to "Second Mesa", the ancestral home of the Hopi Indians. "Gila Bend" is an town barely bigger than an intersection, and "Echo Canyon" in central Phoenix (pictured on the cover) was at one time a very sacred Native American Indian Community, where the artist's childhood home is. The disc's arrangement is such that the record feels like an audio road trip through this widely diverse landscape that the Hopis regard as the spiritual center of North America.
Music Review:
Music Review
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About the Artist
The man behind Mr. Soon, Joe Jakob, is an Arizona native who has most notably worked in collaboration with Native American Grammy Award winning artists Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike, mixing their traditional peyote healing chants with Joe's subtly powerful atmospherics for the Canyon Records release "Sacred Path". "Places In Arizona" conjures up some of the same spiritual feel of this record while mixing in some of the elements of Mr. Soon's more DJ oriented releases, "Critical Mass L.A" on the Mindspore label, and "Chill Volume 2" on Abstrakt Reality.
Album Description
Innovative atmospheric harmonies, textures and downtempo beats that ghostly mirror the desert landscapes of Arizona.