構成数 | 1枚

合計収録時間 | 01:16:50

Personnel: Raul Midon (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Josh Milan, Anane (vocals, background vocals); Jose Luis Pardo (guitar); Albert Sterling Menendez (strings, piano, keyboards); John Scarpulla (flute, tenor saxophone); Jay Rodriguez (flute, baritone saxophone); Jay Collins (saxophone, horns); Richard Boulger, Carl Fischer (trumpet); Raymond Angry (electric piano, keyboards); Selan Lerner (keyboards, background vocals); Etienne Stadwijk, Didi Gutman, Marc Cary, Armando Figueredo (keyboards); Efrain "Junito" Davila (mini-Moog synthesizer); Jose "Cochi" Claussell (congas, percussion); Daniel Moreno (congas); Luisito Quintero (tambourine, timbales, percussion); Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez (drum programming); Claudia Acuna (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Frankie Feliciano; Hiroyuki Sanada; Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez; Little Louie Vega; Steven Barkan. Audio Remixers: Marc Pomeroy; Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez; Brian Tappert. Recording information: East Side Sounds, New York, NY; Mirror Image, New York, NY; Pulse Studios, Staten Island, New York, NY; Skylight Studios, NJ; Studio Davout, Paris, France. Photographer: Atsuko Tanaka. Arrangers: Joaquin "Joe" Claussell; Little Louie Vega. Louie Vega's Elements of Life album was a fun and funky excursion into a broad range of variations on modern international club music, incorporating everything from salsa and soca to bossa nova and Afro-jazz, and bringing in singers who performed in English, French, Yoruba, Spanish, and more. Elements of Life: Extensions is the inevitable remix project, one that features tracks from the original album in sometimes radically different versions mixed by such dancefloor notables as DJ Spinna, Jazzy Jeff, Joe Claussell, and even Masters at Work (the duo in which Vega does most of his production and DJ work). Maudlin and sentimental lyrics continue to mar both "Sunshine" and the rhythmically pedestrian "Let the Children Play" ("Let them heal the world with the way we feel when they play," etc.), but the jazz-meets-soca bump of "Cerca de Mi" and the exuberantly funky "Nos Vida" more than make up for those soggy interludes, and the House of Rhumba cameo on "Steel Congo" ends the album with a pleasing bang. Recommended. ~ Rick Anderson

録音 | ステレオ (Studio)