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Length
  
57:06

We Are Three (2000)
  
Without Zero (2007)

Release date
  
16 October 2001

Language
  
English

Artist
  
Joi

Label
  
Real World Records

Released
  
16 October 2001 (2001-10-16)

Producer
  
Ashley Wales Farook Shamsher John Coxon

Genres
  
World music, Folk music, Big band, Breakbeat

Similar
  
Without Zero, One and One Is One, Star Kitty's Revenge, Tennessee Slim Is the Bomb, Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome

We Are Three is the second studio album by English dance music group Joi, released on 15 October 2000 by Real World Records.

Contents

Background

Two months before his death, Haroon visited Bangladesh for a month and made a series of field recordings which Farook used as the basis for We Are Three.

Critical response

Philip Van Vleck of Billboard called We Are Three "...a powerful message from the Asian underground music scene..." Peggy Latkovich of AllMusic rated the albym 3/5 and said, "We Are Three shows Farook Shamsher's skill as a manipulator of sounds and serves as worthy testimony to his brother's memory." Vinita Ramani of Exclaim! said, "We Are Three's strength is the story that fuels the album's conception, a story whose mood infuse the entirety of this album."

Personnel

  • Khutub Uddin – flute
  • Panna Dash – lute
  • Mohamed Washin – tabla
  • Mads Bjerke – recording engineer
  • Songs

    1Journey7:17
    2Prem7:05
    3Don't Cha Know That7:26

    References

    We Are Three Wikipedia