Alternative Distribution Alliance
2008
The Gathering
About This Album
This seven-track CD titled The Gathering has an intuitive drive and some controlled power that makes it appealing on many levels. Thirty-two minutes and three seconds total time harkens back to the days when vinyl LPs held 15 minutes per side and, for a prolific bunch like the Living Legends, the audience might feel a bit slighted...though others may consider that the rappers are putting a heavier emphasis on this septet of sound essays than overloading the CD. The title track has an eerie keyboard juxtaposed against a solid beat and percussive sounds; it's the second longest piece on the disc, dips into Richard Matheson territory with a nod to I Am Legend, and is a good way to kick things off: with a nice bang. "She Wants Me" follows with a hypnotic variety of sparse sounds under the narrative flowing into a killer chorus about a drugged-out, psychotic, bisexual girlfriend the protagonist met on Myspace. It's territory Willie "Loco" Alexander covered in the '70s with a similarly titled song MCA refused to release on the second Boom Boom Band LP, "Nazi Nola (She Wanted Me)," the stretch from heavy punk/R&B to R&B/rap not as far thematically as one might think.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4 and 5)

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