We Are Three

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We Are Three
Joi - We Are Three.jpg
Studio album by
Joi
Released16 October 2000 (2000-10-16)
Genre
Length57:06
LanguageEnglish
Label Real World
Producer
Joi chronology
One and One Is One
(1999)
We Are Three
(2000)
Without Zero
(2007)

We Are Three is the second studio album by English dance music group Joi, released on 15 October 2000 by Real World Records.

Contents

Background

Two months before his death, Haroon visited Bangladesh for a month [1] and made a series of field recordings which Farook used as the basis for We Are Three. [2]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Philip Van Vleck of Billboard called We Are Three "...a powerful message from the Asian underground music scene..." [1] Peggy Latkovich of AllMusic rated the album 3/5 and said, "We Are Three shows Farook Shamsher's skill as a manipulator of sounds and serves as worthy testimony to his brother's memory." [3] Vinita Ramani of Exclaim! said, "We Are Three's strength is the story that fuels the album's conception, a story whose mood infuse the entirety of this album." [4]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Journey"7:17
2."Prem" (featuring Rojina Beagum)7:05
3."Don't Cha Know That"7:26
4."The Holy Side" (featuring Susheela Raman)6:44
5."Deep Asian Vibes"6:35
6."Triatma"7:22
7."Flying With You"3:43
8."Tacadin"5:31
9."We Need Your Vote"5:23
Total length:57:06

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Van Vleck, Philip (23 December 2000). "RealWorld Releasing Joi In January". Billboard . p. 27.
  2. Wood, Andy (2001). "Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture". Routledge. p. 161. ISBN   978-0415169899.
  3. Latkovich, Peggy. "AllMusic Review by Peggy Latkovich". AllMusic . Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  4. Ramani, Vinita (1 May 2001). "Joi We Are Three". Exclaim! . Retrieved 1 September 2015.