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Experience...101
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Experience...101
Genres: Folk, Pop, Christian & Gospel, Broadway & Vocalists, Gospel
 
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"I can see the children dancing and singing and laughing when they hear Experience...101. " - Maya Angelou Sweet Honey in the Rock, the world-renowned, award-winning female African American ensemble, which performs a...  more »

     
   
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All Artists: Sweet Honey in the Rock
Title: Experience...101
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Appleseed Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 9/25/2007
Genres: Folk, Pop, Christian & Gospel, Broadway & Vocalists, Gospel
Style: Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 611587110428

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"I can see the children dancing and singing and laughing when they hear Experience...101. " - Maya Angelou Sweet Honey in the Rock, the world-renowned, award-winning female African American ensemble, which performs a cappella (except for hand percussion), joins the Appleseed label for a delightfully buoyant and positive new CD aimed at teaching kids some of life's basic lessons in 18 exuberant, non-preachy songs. The joyful sound of six magically interwoven voices and upbeat advice - utilizing folk, gospel, jazz, blues and even rap styles - will appeal to children and parents alike. The CD's colorful packaging - an eyecatching digipack and a 16-page booklet in the style of a school composition notebook - contributes to the theme of learning through music. Children from the ages of 9 to 12 pose questions about the mysteries of the adult world in print, and the members of Sweet Honey (six vocalists at the time of this recording, now five, not counting their onstage sign language interpreter) respond with songs of about peaceful coexistence, the virtues of education, the nurturing support and reassurance of parents and elders, following one's moral and spiritual compass, and working to better the surrounding world. Emphasizing the group's roots in African culture, the songs are matched up in print to Adinkra symbols used in Ghana, West Africa, to indicate wisdom, strength, unity, good fortune, harmony and other emotions crucial to leading a meaningful life. The sound of Sweet Honey is almost intoxicating, as they deploy their voices in myriad combinations and styles - call-and-response, scatting, percolating percussive effects, waterfalls of harmonies and counterpoints, rounds, spoken rap-like segments, and just about every other pleasing way the human voice can be utilized.

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CD Reviews

Could Experience 101 have been better?
Mary H. Hoffman | 12/04/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Could Experience 101 have been better? No. No. No.

Mothers love their children differently, not better.

Experience 101 sings songs differently without its founder. Yet it could not be better.



Listen to "Chinese Proverb." Wouldn't it make a great global anthem?



A blast of "Dog Dog" would make even a cat happy.



Mary"
I am recommending this to all mothers
Donna Allen-woolfolk | Newark De | 12/14/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I saw Sweet Honey in the Rock when I was in college. I happened to see this CD and just purchased it. I was expecting their usual socially positive message. What I got was a great CD for my children to hear and for me to share with others. I am purchasing for the all the young children in my life and an extra copy for a charter school."