"If the voice don't say it, the guitar will play it," raps Saffron on "Pork-U-Pine," the third track on Jeff Beck's minimally titled Jeff.
And he does.
Beck teams with producer Andy Wright, the man responsible for his more complete immersion into electronic backdrops on his last outing, You Had It Coming.
This time the transition is complete.
Beck used electronica first on Who Else!, moved a little more into the fire on You Had It Coming, and here merges his full-on Beck-Ola guitar heaviness with the sounds of contemporary spazz-out big beats and noise.
Beck and Wright employ Apollo 440 on "Grease Monkey" and "Hot Rod Honeymoon," and use a number of vocalists, including the wondrously gifted Nancy Sorrell, on a host of tracks, as well as the London Session Orchestra on others (such as "Seasons," where hip-hop, breakbeats, and old-school Tangerine Dream sequencing meet the guitarist's deep blues and funk-drenched guitar stylings).
As for atmospherics, David Torn (aka producer Splattercell) offers a shape-shifting mix of glitch tracks on "Plan B" for Beck to wax on both acoustically and electrically, and make them weigh a ton.
But it's on cuts like "Trouble Man," a purely instrumental big drum and guitar skronk workout, where Beck truly shines here.
With a rhythm section of Dean Garcia and Steve Barney -- and Tony Hymas appears as well -- Beck goes completely overboard: the volume screams and the sheer crunch of his riffs and solos split the rhythm tracks in two, then four, and finally eight, as he turns single-string runs into commentaries on everything from heavy metal to East Indian classical music.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So WhatJeff Beck, Dean Garcia | Jeff Beck | Play | 04:18 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | Plan BRon Aslan, Jeff Beck, David Torn, Simon White | Jeff Beck | Play | 04:49 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | Pork-U-PineJeff Beck, Paul Holroyde, Andy Wright | Jeff Beck | Play | 04:05 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | SeasonsJeff Beck, Ishmael Butler, Matthew Vaughan, Andy Wright | Jeff Beck | Play | 03:47 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | Trouble ManJeff Beck, Dean Garcia, Andy Wright | Jeff Beck | Play | 03:34 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | Grease MonkeyJeff Beck, Howard Gray, Trevor Gray | Jeff Beck | Play | 03:34 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | Hot Rod HoneymoonJeff Beck, Howard Gray, Trevor Gray | Jeff Beck | Play | 03:31 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | Line Dancing with MonkeysRon Aslan, David Torn, Simon White | Jeff Beck | Play | 05:16 | 12 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | Jb's BluesJeff Beck, Dean Garcia | Jeff Beck | Play | 04:18 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 10 | My ThingJeff Beck, Nancy Sorrell, Andy Wright | Jeff Beck | Play | 04:09 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 11 | BulgariaTraditional | Jeff Beck | Play | 02:00 | 4 MB | 0 MB |
| 12 | Why Lord Oh Why?Anthony Hymas | Jeff Beck | Play | 04:41 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 13 | Pay Me No Mind (Jeff Beck Remix) | Jeff Beck | Play | 03:18 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 51 mins | 118 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ronni Ancona | Vocals |
| 2 | Apollo 440 | Engineer, Musician, Producer |
| 3 | Ron Aslan | Composer |
| 4 | Michael Barbiero | Mixing |
| 5 | Steve Barney | Musician |
| 6 | Beached Boys | Vocals |
| 7 | Jeff Beck | Arranger, Composer, Mixing, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 8 | Dave Bloor | Engineer |
| 9 | James Brown | Engineer |
| 10 | Ishmael Butler | Composer |
| 11 | David Coleman | Art Direction |
| 12 | David Daoud Coleman | Art Direction |
| 13 | 4:40 | Engineer, Producer |
| 14 | Dean Garcia | Composer, Engineer, Mixing, Musician, Producer |
| 15 | Howard Gray | Composer, Mixing |
| 16 | Trevor Gray | Composer |
| 17 | Paul Holroyde | Composer |
| 18 | John Hudson | Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Engineer |
| 19 | Anthony Hymas | Composer |
| 20 | Tony Hymas | Mixing, Musician |
| 21 | Ashley Krajewski | Assistant, Assistant Engineer |
| 22 | Baylen Leonard | Vocals |
| 23 | London Session Orchestra | Musician |
| 24 | Jamie Maher | Engineer, Mixing |
| 25 | Wil Malone | Orchestral Arrangements |
| 26 | Fergus Peterkin | Assistant Engineer |
| 27 | Saffron | Vocals |
| 28 | Nancy Sorrell | Composer, Vocals |
| 29 | David Tom | Mixing, Reproduction |
| 30 | David Torn | Composer, Mixing, Reproduction |
| 31 | Traditional | Composer |
| 32 | Matthew Vaughan | Composer |
| 33 | Greg Waterman | Photography |
| 34 | Simon White | Composer |
| 35 | Andy Wright | Arranger, Composer, Engineer, Producer, Vocals |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |