Shaft

• Artist : Isaac Hayes
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0090204990672
• Format : Enhanced
• Format : Original recording remastered
• Format : Soundtrack
• Label : Stax
• Manufacturer : Stax
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.39 inches (Height) x 5.28 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.88 inches (Width)
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Stax
• Release Date : 2001-02-26
• SKU : 090204990672
• Studio : Stax
• UPC : 090204990672

The "Theme from Shaft" is now so ingrained in popular consciousness as the blaxploitation-movie track that it's hard to listen to it without a faint smirk. ("Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?") But if you can get past the inadvertent humour, it's still a devilishly exciting piece of music--all hi-hat 16ths, wah-wah guitar, strings and woodwind, like a Norman Whitfield Motown production taken to a baroque extreme. The rest of the album consists mainly of incidental mood music of no great worth: "Walk from Regio's"' "Ellie's Love Theme"--you know the sort of thing. Only two other tracks feature the Black Moses pipes, while the endless "Do Your Thing" takes its place in the catalogue of Hayes epics that began with Hot Buttered Soul. --Barney Hoskyns

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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