Stevie Wonder: Innervisions - Remastered Reissue [Vinyl 1LP 180gram]

Soul / Funk
premiera polska: 17.12.2008
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Gatefoldowe etui
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Editor's info:
Innervisions is the sixteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder, released August 3, 1973, on the Tamla label for Motown Records, a landmark recording of his "classic period". It is also regarded as Wonder's transition from Little Stevie Wonder and romantic ballads to a more musically mature, conscious and grown-up artist. With Wonder being the first major artist to experiment with the revolutionary TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) synth, developed by Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, and the ARP synthesizer on a large scale, Innervisions became hugely influential on the subsequent future of commercial soul and black music.

As with many of Wonder's albums, the lyrics, composition and production of Innervisions are almost entirely his own work, with the ARP used prominently throughout the album. The instrument was a common motif among musicians of the time because of its ability to construct a complete sound environment. Wonder also played all or virtually all instruments on six of the album's nine tracks, making most of Innervisions a representative one-man band.

Rolling Stone
… Stevie Wonder may be blind, but he reads the national landscape, particularly regarding black America, with penetrating insight on Innervisions, the peak of his 1972-73 run of albums–including Music of My Mind and Talking Book. Fusing social realism with spiritual idealism, Wonder brings expressive color and irresistible funk to his synth-based keyboards on "Too High" (a cautionary anti-drug song) and "Higher Ground" (which echoes Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of transcendence). The album's centerpiece is "Living for the City", a cinematic depiction of exploitation and injustice.

muzycy:
"Too High"
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, Fender Rhodes electric piano, harmonica, drums, Moog bass
Lani Groves, Tasha Thomas, & Jim Gilstrap – background vocals

"Visions"
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, Fender Rhodes electric piano
Malcolm Cecil – upright bass
Dean Parks – acoustic guitar
David T. Walker – electric guitar

"Living for the City"
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocals, Fender Rhodes electric piano, drums, Moog bass, T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer, handclaps

"Golden Lady"
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, drums, Moog bass, T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer
Clarence Bell – Hammond organ
Ralph Hammer – acoustic guitar
Larry "Nastyee" Latimer – congas

"Higher Ground"
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, Hohner clavinet, drums, Moog bass, tambourine, handclaps

"Jesus Children of America"
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hohner clavinet, drums, Moog bass, handclaps, tambourine

"All in Love Is Fair"
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, drums
Scott Edwards – electric bass

"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, piano, drums, Moog bass
Yusuf Roahman – shaker
Sheila Wilkerson – bongos, Latin gourd

"He's Misstra Know-It-All"
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, piano, drums, handclaps, T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer, congas
Willie Weeks – electric bass

utwory:
A1. Too High
A2. Visions
A3. Living For The City
A4. Golden Lady
B1. Higher Ground
B2. Jesus Children Of America
B3. All In Love Is Fair
B4. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
B5. He's Misstra Know-It-All

wydano: 2008 (1973)
nagrano: Recorded at Record Plant, Los Angeles and Media Sound, Inc., New York