Been Found

Track Listings

1. Been Found

2. I Remember All

3. Made for Me

4. Where We Come From

5. This Time It's Real

6. What If

7. Just Talking

8. Keeps on Getting Better

9. Sweet Thing

10. It's Your Love

11. Why Shouldn't It Be Me

Been Found,Ashford & Simpson with Maya Angelou,Ichiban Old Indie,Pop,Quiet Storm,R&B,Smooth Soul,Soul,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues,Urban

Been Found

Tracks:

Been Found
I Remember All
Made for Me
Where We Come From
This Time It's Real
What If
Just Talking
Keeps on Getting Better
Sweet Thing
It's Your Love
Why Shouldn't It Be Me

Customer Reviews:

Music from Heaven.......2004-02-07

I consider myself very lucky to have discovered this CD almost by accident, when it was first released in about 1996 or 1997. It is still in my top two or three CD's ever. The combination of lyrics too moving to be called simply songs, the soulful sounds of Ashford & Simpson and Maya Angelou's amazing voice is incredible. This must be what angels sound like!

Never thought I'd hear an album like this.......2002-06-26

I bought this, unheard, as the combination of these artists seemed so perfect and I was so right. The CD has hardly been off my machine since it arrived. A true little prize.
I have always loved Valerie Simpson since I heard her solo album a gazillion years ago and now totally unavailable(unless there is somebody out there knows different?!) Maya Angelou's voice is one of planet Earth's most prized possessions I would listen to her reading the telephone directory. This combination which probably should not work, so works. The counterpoint between Maya's spoken words and A&S soulful vocals must find its way into your collection. This is a true must-have album

Almost Five Stars.......2001-05-27

Ashford and Simpson have not lost their touch. Their music is still the best, and they still put emotion into their lyrics and voices better than anyone else. I have nothing against Maya Angelou, but I think they made a mistake by recording this album as a trio. I find spoken lyrics in songs to be very annoying. One or two lines is okay, but two of three verses is too much. Some songs sound like Nick and Valerie are just singing backup to Maya's poetry recitation. "Made for Me," "It's Your Love," and "Keeps on Getting Better" are the best songs on the album. Those are also three of the four duets. "Been Found" is an overall good album and worth buying. I will definitely try to replace my CD if something happens to it.

Great CD-Great Artists.......2000-05-25

I purchased the CD in 1997 and played it so much, it wore out. I am desperately looking for another copy. I can't understand why it didn't get any airtime on R& B stations. Ashford and Simpson are one of the premier songwriting teams of all times. With Maya thrown into the mix, this CD was something special. This one should have "Been Found" by a wider audience.

Melodious Poetry of the First Order.......2000-04-01

Legendary songwriting team of Ashford and Simpson and literary luminary Maya Angelou have woven a seamless blend of lyric and music in this most satisfying release. From the opening strains of the title cut to the last beat, "Been Found" makes the listener experience every carefully crafted nuance, every soulful phrase, and every stimulating word that borders on the uplifting and the sensuous. Ms. Angelou's distinctive voice is complemented by the passionate vocals of the husband and wife team who always sound as if they are really soulmates for life. I cannot believe that this four-year-old composition did not spawn a follow up. It certainly deserved Grammy recognition upon its initial release. Although all tracks are suberb, the cuts "Where We Come From," "What If," and the final "Why Shouldn't It Be Me" are reminiscent of the classic tunes penned by the couple for themselves and many other artists. Why they aren't being utilized by contemporary singers is one mystery to me. I guess there isn't "Nothing Like the Real Thing."

Average customer rating:

Music from Heaven
Never thought I'd hear an album like this
Almost Five Stars
Great CD-Great Artists
Melodious Poetry of the First Order

Been Found
Ashford & Simpson with Maya Angelou , and Ashford & Simpson
Manufacturer: Ichiban
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Been Found
I Remember All
Made For Me
Where We Come From
This Time It's Real
What If
Just Talking
Keeps On Getting Better
Sweet Thing
It's Your Love
Why Shouldn't It Be Me

Customer Reviews:

Music from Heaven.......2004-02-07

Never thought I'd hear an album like this.......2002-06-26

Almost Five Stars.......2001-05-27

Great CD-Great Artists.......2000-05-25

Melodious Poetry of the First Order.......2000-04-01

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Too Many Memories
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Release Date: 2002-01-01

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Downtown Found
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Sublime

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Customer Reviews:

Sublime.......2001-05-27

One of Hyperion's earliest titles, this disc provides a fine survey of sacred music by an interesting and prolific composer.

Burgon's "Nunc Dimittis" is by far the best known of his church pieces, since it was featured in the soundtrack of the television series "Tinker, Tailor" in the early 1980s. A moving setting of the Song of Simeon for treble voices and organ, in dialogue with an evocative solo trumpet, it was originally released as a single and so captivated fans of the series that it even broke into the pop charts for a while! Building upon its success, Burgon wrote a "Magnificat" (without trumpet) to produce an Evening Service. When listening to it, one might well feel that it hints at the popular music of that memorable decade whilst responding effectively to the words. Heard at the start of the programme, it makes a wonderful introduction to the rest of the music.

The "Hymns to Mary" are two short motets for unaccompanied choir, setting texts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The first, "Hail Queen of Heaven," is simple and hymn-like; "Blessed be that lady bright" has more counterpoint and inner variation of the basic material. Both are remarkably gentle, as is "But they have been found again" - the title actually comes from the final line of the text. Also worth mentioning is "A Prayer to the Trinity"- nothing more need be said of this than that it is exquisite. "This world" is another motet, but with much darker and more oppressive overtones; the text is concerned with death and possible solace when faced with it. Before the final stanzas there is a climactic and disturbing organ solo that magically melts into a gentle duet for choir and organ (indeed, in this piece the organ part is for once not an accompaniment but a distinct entity offering a wordless response to the sung passages). "At the round earth's imagined corners," sets a sonnet by John Donne for - unusually - solo treble, trumpet and organ. Fleshing out the programme is the "Short Mass," in which none of the movements is more than two minutes long, and "Laudate Dominum," a setting of Psalm 148 in which the organ IS an accompaniment to some spiky choral writing.

Burgon's style in all this music is to clothe his chosen texts in evocative harmonies, reminiscent at times of Peter Maxwell Davies but far milder. When distinct melodies appear (as in the two pieces with trumpet, "Nunc Dimittis" and "At the round earth's imagined corners") they float effortlessly above these characteristic harmonies like some sort of sea-spray above a coastline. Sometimes, Burgon finds a medium between the two that etches itself onto the memory - the organ ostinato in "Magnificat" is in many ways what makes that piece so haunting, just as the chord progressions and quiet 'echoes' of trumpet in "Nunc Dimittis" are haunting.

As to the performance: Chichester Cathedral Choir was at the time very familiar with Burgon, having commissioned and given first performances of most of the works recorded here - "But they have been found again" was written for the Southern Cathedrals Festival and first performed at Chichester. Under Alan Thurlow, the choristers make light work of their soaring tunes and airy high notes, aided resolutely by the lay clerks who blend beautifully with the choristers and with each other. Tuning in the unaccompanied items is excellent; the tone is smooth and captures the effect of the music perfectly. Jeremy Suter draws similar sounds from the organ; Michael Laird is the solo trumpeter who plays with dignity and superb dynamic control. Chichester Cathedral's acoustic is clean and not intrusive.

The disc has been out of print for a long time now, alas. (I purchased my copy directly from Hyperion, and only because a foreign distributor had unexpectedly returned a small quantity of unsold titles to them.) Cathedral musicians in particular ought to clamour for its re-release soon; it makes a fascinating addition to the already-large collection of single composer church music recordings in existence on Hyperion and other labels. Overall, it is not really what I would call 'exciting' - most of the music is calm and introvert (unlike such composers as Tavener and Leighton who have moments of loud and extrovert writing in their music) - nor do you get much for the price (the total running time is only 45 minutes). One other problem with this recording (depending upon your point of view) is that the organ is quite obviously an electronic one: Chichester Cathedral does have a pipe organ, but it was not in working condition during the early 1980s and an electronic one had to be hauled in for services (and therefore for this recording).