We Are Three

We Are Three
We Are Three
Studio album by Joi
Released	16 October 2000
Genre	Electronic; folk; World music; Jazz; big band; dance; techno; breakbeat;
Length	57:06
Language	English
Label	Real World
Producer	Ashley Wales; Farook Shamsher; John Coxon;
Joi chronology

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

Background

Two months before his death, Haroon visited Bangladesh for a month^[1] and made a series of field recordings which Farook used as the basis for We Are Three.^[2]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]

Philip Van Vleck of Billboard called We Are Three "...a powerful message from the Asian underground music scene..."^[1] Peggy Latkovich of AllMusic said, "We Are Three shows Farook Shamsher's skill as a manipulator of sounds and serves as worthy testimony to his brother's memory."^[3] 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."^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Journey"	7:17
2.	"Prem" (featuring Rojina Beagum)	7:05
3.	"Don't Cha Know That"	7:26
4.	"The Holy Side" (featuring Susheela Raman)	6:44
5.	"Deep Asian Vibes"	6:35
6.	"Triatma"	7:22
7.	"Flying with You"	3:43
8.	"Tacadin"	5:31
9.	"We Need Your Vote"	5:23
Total length:		57:06

Personnel

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

References

^ ^a ^b Van Vleck, Philip (23 December 2000). "RealWorld Releasing Joi In January". Billboard. p. 27.
^ Wood, Andy (2001). "Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture". Routledge. p. 161. ISBN 978-0415169899.
^ ^a ^b Latkovich, Peggy. "AllMusic Review by Peggy Latkovich". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
^ Ramani, Vinita (1 May 2001). "Joi We Are Three". Exclaim!. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

External links

Official website
We Are Three at Discogs

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[Billboard-1] Van Vleck, Philip (23 December 2000). "RealWorld Releasing Joi In January". Billboard. p. 27.

[Companion_to_Contemporary_Black_British_Culture-2] Wood, Andy (2001). "Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture". Routledge. p. 161. ISBN 978-0415169899.

[allmusic-3] Latkovich, Peggy. "AllMusic Review by Peggy Latkovich". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

[exclaim-4] Ramani, Vinita (1 May 2001). "Joi We Are Three". Exclaim!. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

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