This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Some electronic artists cross cultures or countries. Others bend genres, genders or generations. Still others merge media. Lunar Drive do it all.
This music/dance/performance/art collective led by U.K. composer Sandy Hoover includes several indigenous North Americans, including singer/dancer Reuben Fast Horse, a Lakota Sioux from North Dakota. Fast Horse and the rest offer up traditional chants and melodies, which Hoover updates and sets against a varied series of electronica styles — everything from sparse drum ’n’ bass to Luscious Jackson-style pop to rave-ready big beat. Actually, the beats could have been bigger — some of Hoover’s lighter rhythms might have benefited from a dose of communal drumming. But on the whole, All Together Here is an original take on an ancient art form.
