フォーマット |
CD |
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構成数 |
1 |
国内/輸入 |
輸入 |
パッケージ仕様 |
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発売日 |
2015年08月21日 |
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規格品番 |
5 |
レーベル |
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SKU |
616892309345 |
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 00:39:01
Audio Mixers: Zo!; Phonte; Nicolay. Recording information: East Wing Studios, Silver Spring, MD; The Beach House, Wilmington, NC; The Peanut Gallery, Raleigh, NC. Director: Aimee Flint. Only two months after Nicolay issued his collaborative City Lights, Vol. 3: Soweto, the producer and instrumentalist, along with singing, songwriting, and arranging partner Phonte, returned with the most varied Foreign Exchange album. It's also the one that most emphasizes the duo's extended family of collaborators. The cover of this, their fifth proper full-length, displays Carmen Rodgers and Tamisha Waden -- two of their co-lead and background vocalists -- as well as Lorenzo "Zo!" Ferguson. The FE nucleus and Zo! go way back and take it to another level here, with Zo! -- similar to Nicolay, a studio wiz who typically works in isolation -- a co-songwriter and co-producer of every song. Perhaps proximity and a history as performing partners partly explain why so much of this sounds like a party, as free and easy as the group's shows. FE previously went house with "So What If It Is," a deep and cleansing track, but when they return to the form here, it's with the humorous and rhythmically tougher early-'90s throwback "Asking for a Friend," where Phonte affects a distinguished Englishman accent akin to that of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's Geoffrey Butler. On first listen, the song sounds merely like an amusing novelty until the stellar Waden-led chorus enters and takes it somewhere else. (No R&B group before them has maintained such a strong balance between female and male voices.) A different stunt is pulled with "Work It to the Top," bumping boogie that touches on 1979-1981 Slave -- just a little bit -- down to Phonte's spirited Steve Arrington mannerisms. Beyond those two songs and the pair of delighted Brazilian fusion-styled title tracks that begin and end the album, what remains largely refines the sweet and blissful grooves of Love in Flying Colors. That's not a bad thing, not when the writing is as sharp, with rich harmonies laced through rhythms that bound and wind with unforced finesse and warmth. Even with a disarming ballad on each side, Tales from the Land of Milk and Honey is one of the funnest R&B albums in some time. ~ Andy Kellman
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1.[CD]
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1.Milk and Honey
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2.Work It to the Top
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3.Truce
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4.Disappear
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5.Sevenths and Ninths
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6.Asking for a Friend
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7.Body
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8.As Fast as You Can
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9.Face in the Reflection
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10.Until the Dawn (Milk and Honey, Pt. 2)
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ニコレイとフォンテによる越境型R&B/ヒップホップ・ユニットの2年ぶりとなる新作。今回は常連のゾー!やカーメン・ロジャーズ、タミーシャ・ワデンを準メンバー的なポジションに置き、いまやすっかりソウル・シンガーとなったフォンテのヴォーカルを中心に、クラブ・ボッサや80sディスコ、ヒップ・ハウス調の曲をテンポ良く展開していく。メロウなブギー"Work It To The Top"など、パーティー感溢れる快作だ。
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