Trickbaby "Chor Bazaar" (2008)

Listen to the samples here

The sound of Chor Bazaar offers real substance which never fails to get the adrenaline flowing. The delicious mishmash of eclectic beats and soft, down-tempo vocals make it a solid, polished album expanding on the sound that Trickbaby crafted in their debut. An enjoyable album.

Trickbaby's first album was a real hit in UK in 2004. Now, four years later I can say that this one has to be at least as good as the previous one! I've been listening to it about two months and I'm enjoying it much! The reason is...

diverse sounds. There's many different musical instruments used and they blend well together.
The album starts with a track called Fighter. It's got great jumping beats, when listening to it you want to stand up and start dancing. Saira Hussein's voice is maybe a little bit soft when singing about being a fighter, but it doesn't ruin the whole pic.
My favourite track on this album is Baja. Starts with drums and mild vocal from Hussein. It's the kind of down-tempo track that suits for dancing and also for easy listening at home. Percussion do suit very well here with harmonica and and Husseins voice. I recommend you to listen to it (link above).
Light Up My Life is also chill track to listen. Hussein's voice makes it a softer track than it originally is. Seems to me that the vocal stills uits well with other instruments and makes the tracks more soft and tender. The same is with Babu. Otherwise an average track, but female vocal makes it a lot better.
Chor Bazaar is quite funny track. Russian male vocal + acordian + violin + bhangra = russian bhangra? Anyways, this is something you cannot expect and first it sounds too weird. Later I got used to it and now it seems just a track with lots of power in it.
Nine Parts is like All Saints has come back together. At least at some point it sounds very Western, too much pop music sound maybe?
Neelaa is totally opposite to all other tracks on this album. Pure club track. Something that makes my feet want to dance. I loved the first version of Neelaa and 08' is also awesome! Very nice beats and guitar tunes in it!

All together Trickbaby's second album is worth listening and themore I listen to it, the more I like it. A very diverse album indeed!