Soul Circus

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Soul Circus
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 12, 2005
Genre Jazz
Label Vanguard
Producer Victor Wooten
Victor Wooten chronology
Live in America
(2001)
Soul Circus
(2005)
Palmystery
(2008)
Professional ratings
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Soul Circus is the fifth album by Victor Wooten, released in 2005. Wooten claims he took inspiration from what played in radio stations in the 1970s, so most songs have lyrics to them.

Victor Wooten American bass guitarist

Victor Lemonte Wooten is an American bass guitarist, record producer, educator, and recipient of five Grammy Awards. He has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988 and a member of the band SMV with two other bassists, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. Since 2017 he has played bass for the metal band Nitro.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Intro: Adam" (V. Wooten) – 0:09
  2. "Victa" (Bootsy Collins, Future Man, V. Wooten) – 4:54
  3. "Bass Tribute" (Future Man, V. Wooten) – 5:11
  4. "Prayer" (Divinity Roxx, Saundra Williams, V. Wooten) – 5:47
  5. "Natives" (V. Wooten) – 4:00
  6. "Can't Hide Love" (Skip Scarborough) – 4:36
  7. "Stay" (V. Wooten) – 4:56
  8. "On and On" (Speech, Saundra Williams, V. Wooten) – 4:52
  9. "Cell Phone" (Count Bass D, Divinity Roxx, V. Wooten) – 4:22
  10. "Back To India" (Speech, V. Wooten) – 4:31
  11. "Soul Circus" (V. Wooten) – 4:29
  12. "Higher Law" (V. Wooten) – 4:34
  13. "Take U There" (V. Wooten) – 0:28
  14. "Ari's Eyes" (V. Wooten) – 4:59
  15. "Outro: Kids" (Kalia Wooten, Adam Wooten, Arianna Wooten) – 0:08
  16. "Bass Tribute (Reprise)" (V. Wooten) – 2:24

Personnel

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses.

Keyboard instrument class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.


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