Book Of Love

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:46:39
Air Supply: Graham Russell (vocals, acoustic, nylon string & electric guitars, harp, keyboards, programming); Russell Hitchcock (vocals); Mark Williams (conductor, drums, percussion, programming); Jed Moss (piano); Cliff Rehrig (bass). Additional personnel: Michael Sherwood (vocals); Rex Goh (electric guitar); Martin Tillman (cello); Phil Shenale (strings, keyboards); Guy Allison (keyboards, programming); Randy Kerber (keyboards); Abraham Laboriel, Larry Antonino (bass); Rafael Padilla, Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); The Waters Family (background vocals). Recorded from February to September, 1997. Personnel: Graham Russell (vocals, guitar); Russell Hitchcock (vocals); Rex Goh (guitar, electric guitar); Martin Tillman (cello); John Philip Shenale (strings, keyboards); Guy Allison (keyboards, drum programming); Randy Kerber (keyboards); Mark Towner Williams , Bobby Gilcken (drums); Paulinho Da Costa, Rafael Padilla (percussion). Audio Mixer: Alejandro Rodriguez . Recording information: Runs With The Wild, UT (02/1997-09/1997); WEstlake Studios, Los Angeles, CA (02/1997-09/1997). Photographer: Michael Wilson . The Book of Love was a serious attempt by Air Supply to regain their position as pre-eminent adult contemporary artists. During the early '90s, they released a couple of records that went ignored, but none were as carefully-considered as The Book of Love, which places them squarely in the '90s adult pop tradition, instead of finding them stuck in the '80s. That alone makes the album worthwhile, but it doesn't excuse the uneven songwriting. There's a few songs that are sparkling updates of the Air Supply formula -- "So Much Love" and "When I Say" both are lush, appealingly melodramatic and sappy ballads that work -- but there are more that simply fall flat. Still, the very fact that some of The Book of Love works makes it Air Supply's best record in nearly a decade. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)