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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: MSI:WALL OF SOUND
Salesrank: 18130
Released: November 11, 2008 |
| Our Price: $11.95 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Hurricane Track Listing:
1. This is
2. William's Blood
3. Corporate Cannibal
4. I'm crying (Mother's tears)
5. Well Well Well
6. Hurricane
7. Love you to life
8. Sunset Surprise
9. Devil in my Life
Editorial Review:
2008 album from the original New Wave, Art/Disco diva, her 10th album and first studio release in almost 20 years. Hurricane features an all-star production team led by Ivor Guest, including Brian Eno, Tricky, and Sly & Robbie. Other participants on Hurricane are Wally Badarou, Wendy and Lisa, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, Mikey 'Mao' Chung, Barry Reynolds, Don-E and Tony Allen, Nine tracks including the singles 'William's Blood' and the haunting and twisted 'Corporate Cannibal'. Wall of Sound. 2008.
Hurricane Reviews:
À espera de mais 
2009-11-22 - O som inconfundível de Grace Jones, marcadamente actual nalgumas músicas, mas a soar a deja vu noutras.
Inexplicavelmente, apenas 35 minutos de música; não se justifica o investimento a produzir um cd e conseguirmos aproveitar muito pouco, depois queixam-se da pirataria!
Para todos os efeitos, vale a pena, alguns sons são mesmo bons!
Hurricane Grace Strikes Again! 
2009-11-17 - She's baaaaaaack!!!!!!!!!
After a too-long absence from recording as a headliner, Grace Jones takes you on the journey of her life in her best and most personal album yet. "This Is" is the pulsating introduction to her life story. The rock/gospel-anthem "Williams' Blood" speaks to her origins and family relationships. "Corporate Cannibal" is a haunting, but playful look at the "Grace Jones Persona". The video is a must-see! "I'm Crying(Mother's Tears)" is probably the most personal song on the CD, and shows a rarely-seen vulnerable side of Grace Jones. Turn up the bass and groove to the reggae beat of "Well, Well, Well. The reunion with Sly, Robbie, and Sticky bring her back to her roots and gives us some of her best music! "Hurricane" is a declaration of the power and strength that this woman possesses. "Love You To Life" has that rhythmic speak-sing reminiscent of "Walking In The Rain". The chanteuse is back in "Sunset Sunrise", a catchy euro/reggae tune that ends with her singing in French! Grace talks about her demons in "Devil In My Life", a song that gains energy as it goes. Definitely worth the money!
MY FAVORITE ALBUM OF 2008-2009
2009-10-30 - "Hurricane" is the album that almost never happened. There were two other albums full of material in the 1990's that never saw the light of day due to lack of a recording contracts and producers who were not committed to the projects. Trying to secure a recording contract today is not the same as before. Today, many large recording companies are scared to take a risk on a project or an artist, no matter if the artist has an established track record, such as Grace Jones.
In the end, it was an independent U.K. label named Wall of Sound Records, which offered Jones a deal. The album is as forward thinking as her original Compass Point Sessions. It is Grace Jones in top form once again. This album show that she is like a fine wine that only gets better with age. Always at the forefront of music, Grace Jones' "Hurricane" does not disappoint from beginning to end.
With a powerful introduction "This is my voice, my weapon of choice", the listener is instantly taken under her submission with the opening track "This Is Life". Produced by Jones and her on and off beau Ivor Guest, the production quality on "Hurricane", her 10th studio album is excellent. From the strength of song selection and lyric weight, this is an album that shows us where the icon is at presently. Yes, if an artist has established a sound, it is easy for them to recreate that sound. However, Grace's intuition has always been about the future yet she does acknowledge her past in the same right with longtime collaborators, Sly and Robbie and Barry Reynolds. British electronica innovator, Brian Eno, also assist with the sonic landscape, providing little sounds of nature from birds chirping, insects sounds and of course a storm. Tricky, who wrote the title track also gets production credit. This album also shows Jones in a softer yet vulnerable position unlike any record before. She opens up about her family, the trails and influences of her strict religion she was raised on and her mother, in which she declares that "I'm stronger now, I'm tougher now" in the touching and poignant "I'm Crying (Mother's Tears") . The family theme is also carried through "William's Blood" which is a fantastic track complete with authoritative command of "Let me go, I got the William's Blood in me", backed with a gospel choir tinged closure with Jones' mother accompany the artist in a rendition of "Amazing Grace". May seem a little egotistic but it works extremely well and only Grace Jones could have pulled that off. This proves that she really OWNS her craft. The reggae-flavored "Well, Well, Well" is a definite ode to early work reminiscent of 1980's "Private Life". The album also shines the light on Jones' son, Paulo Goude (fathered by French artist-Jean Paul Goude). Paulo contributed to "Hurricane" and co-wrote "Sunset, Sunrise". Other notable tracks, "Love You to Life" and the James Bond music influenced "The Devil in My Life" display that Jones has not lost her sense of drama in song. "Hurricane" succeeds because Jones never follows trends in popular music. The track "Corporate Cannibal" is relevant in regards to today's economic woes as it depict major corporations and companies as man eating machines.
Unlike another icon, Madonna who seems to be looking for that never-ending fountain of youth at 50 years old in her choice of musical output and grueling body workouts, Grace celebrates her moment. Jones makes the powerful analysis of looking back at her past for inspiration yet she is comfortable in her skin now. We all are going to get old one day, so just embrace that you survived all of the good times and craziness and thank God that you have arrived at this point. If you read between the lines of "Hurricane", this is the album's primary message.
Hurricane
2009-10-25 - Grace Jones is back. Like the album. The first cut, "Thisis" is awesome as is "Hurricane". She still has it.
AMAZING GRACE
2009-09-24 - I recently bought this CD and it was quite hot! I forgot how amazing Grace is but after listening to this Hurricane CD the memory came racing back. I am a great fan of hers for a long time as a singer, model, actress and great ENTERTAINER/PERFORMER. I admire everything she does because she is quite rare and extremely unique. At age 61 she is not missing a beat and I strongly recommend everyone to buy this CD. I would also love to get some of her live DVD's early and/or present but nothing seems to be available here in the States. I have always wanted to see her live act and missed her last appearance here in NYC this past July. Please come back and do some more live shows in NYC so people of all age can see how brilliant you are; we miss you and there is no other force of nature quite like you. Amazing Grace how sweet you are, love you home girl! One Luv....
