Songs from the Crystal Cave
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Songs from the Crystal Cave is a 2005 album by Steven Seagal
, his first. Seagal is credited with "Lead Vocals, Rhythm and Lead Guitar" and appears on the cover and throughout the liner notes emotively playing and posing with a guitar. The style can be described as "outsider country
-meets-world music
-meets-Aikido
." Many of the songs reflect Seagal's esoteric Buddhist and spiritualist stance.
Musicians collaborating on this album include Stevie Wonder
and Lady Saw
.
Seagal has sometimes provided soundtrack music for some of his movies. The track "Girl It's Alright", among others was featured in the film Into the Sun.
Conan O'Brien
endorsed this album, although Conan has admitted not listening to the album, rather basing his endorsement on the cover.
Steven Seagal
Steven Frederic Seagal is an American action film star, producer, writer, martial artist, guitarist and reserve deputy sheriff. A 7th-dan black belt in Aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an Aikido instructor in Japan...
, his first. Seagal is credited with "Lead Vocals, Rhythm and Lead Guitar" and appears on the cover and throughout the liner notes emotively playing and posing with a guitar. The style can be described as "outsider country
Country
A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...
-meets-world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
-meets-Aikido
Aikido
is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious spirit." Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to...
." Many of the songs reflect Seagal's esoteric Buddhist and spiritualist stance.
Musicians collaborating on this album include Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
and Lady Saw
Lady Saw
Lady Saw is a Jamaican reggae singer, known as the queen of dancehall.-Biography:...
.
Seagal has sometimes provided soundtrack music for some of his movies. The track "Girl It's Alright", among others was featured in the film Into the Sun.
Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS....
endorsed this album, although Conan has admitted not listening to the album, rather basing his endorsement on the cover.
Track listing
- "Girl It's Alright" - 3:52 (Steven Seagal, Greg Barnhill)
- "Don't You Cry" - 4:59 (Seagal, Barnhill)
- "Music" - 4:15 (Seagal, Patrick George Barrett)
- "Better Man" - 4:29 (Seagal, Barnhill)
- "Route 23" - 4:32 (Seagal)
- "My God" - 3:59 (Seagal)
- "Lollipop" - 4:36 (Cover of the 1958 song by Ronald & RubyRonald & RubyRonald & Ruby were an American interracial pop vocal duo, best known for their 1958 hit single "Lollipop".The duo's members were the black Ronald Gumm and the white Beverly "Ruby" Ross; interracial pop groups were a rarity at this time, and the group did not appear in public or in major press and...
and later The ChordettesThe ChordettesThe Chordettes were a female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional popular music. The Chordettes were one of the longest lived vocal groups with beginnings in the mainstream pop and vocal harmonies of the 1940s and early 1950s...
; oddly, writing credited to Seagal & Shaun Fisher) - "Not for Sale" - 4:58 (Seagal, Fisher)
- "Dance" - 3:34 (Seagal, Fisher)
- "Jealousy" - 4:22 (Seagal, Marion Hall)
- "War" - 3:47 (Seagal, Cleve Laing)
- "Strut" - 3:06 (Seagal, Hall)
- "Goree" - 6:00 (Seagal)
- "The Light" - 4:55 (Seagal)
Personnel
- Steven Seagal: Vocals, RhythmRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
& Lead GuitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
, DrumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, PercussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, Clay Pot - Greg Barnhill: Acoustic Guitars
- Al Anderson: Rhythm Guitar
- Tommy K.: AcousticAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
, Rhythm & Wah-Wah Guitars - Russ DeSalvoRuss DeSalvoRuss DeSalvo is a producer, arranger, songwriter, and guitarist.DeSalvo works with Celine Dion, Lionel Richie , Laura Pausini, and Kyle Archer .In April 2006 DeSalvo and British singer/songwriter Natascha Sohl released a single entitled "Naked," material that they wrote...
: Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Synthesizers - Stevie WonderStevie WonderStevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
: HarmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes... - Marty Grebb: KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, OrganOrgan (music)The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with... - Veit Renn: Keyboards
- Patrick Carroll: BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, Drum & Percussion Programming - Habib Faye: Bass, Keyboards, Drum & Percussion Programming
- Shaun Fisher: Keyboards, Bass, Drums, Percussion
- Rhonda Smith: Bass
- Frank Valardi: Drums
- Babakar: AfricanAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
Drums - T.H. Subash Chandran: Ethnic Percussion, Bowls, TablaTablaThe tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
, Jew's HarpJew's harpThe Jew's harp, jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp, trump or juice harp, is thought to be one of the oldest musical instruments in the world; a musician apparently playing it can be seen in a Chinese drawing from the 4th century BC... - Remi Kabaka: Talking Drum
- Mani Subramaniam: ViolinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Lady SawLady SawLady Saw is a Jamaican reggae singer, known as the queen of dancehall.-Biography:...
, "Lieutenant Stitchie": DJ - Tony Rebel: RapRappingRapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
- Rose Banks, Sharon Bryant, Dana Calitri, Ripley Fairchild, Lisa Frazier, Curtis King, Michael Okri, Janice Brocking-Renn: Vocal Backing