Morph The Cat [CD+DVD-Audio]

構成数 : 2枚
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Personnel: Donald Fagen (melodica, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, background vocals); Donald Fagen (vocals); Ken Wessel, Frank Vignola, Hugh McCracken, Jon Herington, Ken Emerson (guitar); Lawrence Feldman (flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone); Illinois Elohainu (flute); Howard Levy (harmonica); Roger Rosenberg (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone); Walt Weiskopf (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Mark Patterson (trombone); Ted Baker (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Phonus Quaver (vibraphone, marimba); Harlan Post, Jr. (acoustic bass); Art Smith (drums); Jennifer Battista, Candice Predham, Eddie Jackson, Camille Meza (clappers); Gordon Gottlieb (percussion, background vocals); Jerry Barnes, Amy Helm, Carolyn Leonhart (background vocals); Wayne Krantz (guitar); Marvin Stamm (trumpet); "Ready" Freddie Washington (bass guitar); Keith Carlock (drums); Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Cindy Mizelle (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Elliot Scheiner; Brian Montgomery. Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY; Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY; Sear Sound, New York, NY; Sugar Sound, Kauai. Photographer: Danny Clinch. Donald Fagen may be one of the most subversive artists in the pop/rock world. Unlike, say, Prince or Sinead O'Connor, who've worn their subversion on their sleeves, Steely Dan main man Fagen has wormed his way into the American consciousness (and pop charts) with a deceptively harmless sound. Like the Dan catalog and Fagen's previous solo albums, MORPH THE CAT seems on the surface like ear candy that goes down easy. Lurking just below the skin of Fagen's trademark bouncy grooves and pristine, lite-jazz production, however, is a seamy, disconsolate underworld that bespeaks both a lifelong cynicism and a deliciously morbid sense of humor. Though MORPH isn't Fagen's first post-9/11outing (that would be Steely Dan's EVERYTHING MUST GO), it deals more explicitly with that world. For all the foreboding expressed in "Mary Shut the Garden Door," though, it takes a narrator as willfully perverse as Fagen to find himself turned on by the airport security officer giving him the once-over in "Security Joan." MORPH THE CAT is prime Fagen, existing in that singular Twilight Zone where Bob James plays the Leonard Cohen songbook and makes you love it.