GurjitHoliat
VIP
Hello UNP friends,
Jazzy B's new album Folk N Funky 2 with music by Sukshinder Shinda finally released earlier this week. I just wanted to know what everyone's thoughts were regarding this album. If you haven't heard it, I am sure it is up in the UNP Music download thread or you can always check you tube.
After listening to this, I thought the album had a great variety of tracks from bhangra , pop, urban, and even a slow song. Shinda and Jazzy definitely hit the mark in producing an album that brought back that 90's vibe from the first album. I enjoyed tracks like Naag the Third, Billo Tera Jatt, and Vair Mittran Na. Jazzy B's vocals sound as good as ever throughout the songs.
With that being said, I think the music hurt this album. I understand the importance of making the album sound nostalgic, but I did not like many of the keyboard synth portions of the songs. Sarangi and other folk instruments were great but I thought Shinda tried too hard to make it sound like a 90s sound. The keyboard portions were very simple and somewhat annoying when listening. I do not recall those elements hurting the songs on the original folk n funky album. A track like Crazy Ya, would probably be better produced by someone like Deep Jandu. The lyrics were also very weak in this song and it seemed like a kid could have wrote them. Londono Patola Reloaded also was a good attempt but to try to remake such a legendary track I thought this track was below the mark for obvious reasons. All in All, I enjoyed the attempt of trying to recreate that oldschool jazzy b sound but I don't see myself listening to this album all of the time.
What are you guys thoughts?
Jazzy B's new album Folk N Funky 2 with music by Sukshinder Shinda finally released earlier this week. I just wanted to know what everyone's thoughts were regarding this album. If you haven't heard it, I am sure it is up in the UNP Music download thread or you can always check you tube.
After listening to this, I thought the album had a great variety of tracks from bhangra , pop, urban, and even a slow song. Shinda and Jazzy definitely hit the mark in producing an album that brought back that 90's vibe from the first album. I enjoyed tracks like Naag the Third, Billo Tera Jatt, and Vair Mittran Na. Jazzy B's vocals sound as good as ever throughout the songs.
With that being said, I think the music hurt this album. I understand the importance of making the album sound nostalgic, but I did not like many of the keyboard synth portions of the songs. Sarangi and other folk instruments were great but I thought Shinda tried too hard to make it sound like a 90s sound. The keyboard portions were very simple and somewhat annoying when listening. I do not recall those elements hurting the songs on the original folk n funky album. A track like Crazy Ya, would probably be better produced by someone like Deep Jandu. The lyrics were also very weak in this song and it seemed like a kid could have wrote them. Londono Patola Reloaded also was a good attempt but to try to remake such a legendary track I thought this track was below the mark for obvious reasons. All in All, I enjoyed the attempt of trying to recreate that oldschool jazzy b sound but I don't see myself listening to this album all of the time.
What are you guys thoughts?
