Faithless – Sunday 8PM

I was at the concert featured on this album cover, it was and has remained an important experience with music for me. It was a great show, but I have never heard of the band explain why Bluebird was on the cover of the album. To the best of my memory the show was at 8pm on a Sunday night.

Always was a bit of a mess of an album. The remix CD (Saturday 3am) actually has several better versions than on the original release. Why Go? Radio Mix, Take The Long Way Home (End Of The Road Mix), Hour Of Need, Killer's Lullaby all sound better with their respective remix treatments.

The cover is a picture of the marquee at The Bluebird Theater in Denver. Faithless visited Denver for their tour after Reverence. I attended with 2 friends. We were young. I was lucky to have had a historical experience. They played Insomnia a second time as an encore after apologizing for not having more music. The show was shorter than one hour. Rollo was in a black hoodie playing the electric bass. I never saw his face, so I am not positive it was him.

I about 10 people on the small stage. Both Insomnia and Salava Mea where so loud and so deep I thinking the roof and brick walls were crumbling. I don’t think Dido was there. Sister Bliss was transfixing, the keyboard parts on Insomnia required precision and dexterity that is still beyond my comprehension.

I the audience being very excited. I yelling, crying and screaming, just going crazy. I being shocked, not even being able to process what I was seeing and hearing. I have always thought they made the marquee from that show the cover of this album because it was an important event. An example of the power of sound in it’s highest, most developed form.

Although the music of Faithless is described as dance are most songs on the second album Sunday 8 pm very quiet character. Using lazy, slow computer beats, spatial keys-and sample sounds and the hypnotic raps of Maxi Jazz have Rollo and Sister Bliss (Faithless duo behind) a plate containing the above all have the atmosphere. The best examples of this are the beautiful, worn opener The Garden, Bring My Family Back and sung by Boy George Why Go?. The most exciting, varied and adventurous track is the hit single God Is A DJ. The best and most different number sung by Jamie Catto and Rachael Brown is the dreamy pop song gospel Hour Of Need.

A great mainstream dance album from Faithless. This is just fun to listen to, incorporating influences from deep house, trance, spoken word, gospel, and hip-hop. I truly respect Faithless (Maxi Jazz & co.), they have a high-class approach to music, and the lyrics are genius.