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合計収録時間 | 00:59:38

Swing Out Sister: Corinne Drewery (vocals); Andrew Connell (keyboards, programming). Additional personnel: Jimmy Webb (conductor); Vini Reilly, Phil Palmer, Tim Cantsfield (guitar); Jerry Hey (trumpet, horns); Phil Todd, Jamie Talbot, Dan Higgins, Dave Bishop, Chris Davis (saxophone); Guy Barker (trumpet, flugelhorn); Gary Grant, Simon Gardner, John Barclay (trumpet); Pete Beachill, Bill Reichenbach (trombone); Frank Ricotti (vibraphone, glockenspiel, percussion); Chris Whitten (drums); Jess Bailey, Paul O'Duffy, Martin Jackson (programming), Luis Jardim (percussion); Dee Lewis, Nat Augustin, Clare Torrey, Chyna, Derek Green, Stephanie De Sykes (background vocals). Engineering: Howard Bernstien, Roland Herrington, Richard Edwards, Stuart James, Paul O'Duffy. All songs written by Connell/Drewery except "You On My Mind" (Connell/Drewery/O'Duffy), "Tainted" and "Between Strangers" (Connell/Drewery/Jackson). Personnel: Corinne Drewery, Derek Green (vocals, background vocals); Chyna, Lance Ellington (vocals); Tim Cansfield (guitar, electric guitar); Phil Palmer (guitar); Vini Reilly (Spanish guitar); Luis Jardim (berimbau); Fiona Hibbert (harp); Mark Berrow, Peter Oxer, Bill Benham, Godfrey Salmon, Rolf Wilson, Wilfred Gibson, Tim Good, James Archer, Roger Garland, John Kitchen, Gavyn Wright, Elizabeth Edwards (violin); George Robertson , Roger Chase, David Emanuel (viola); Roger Smith , Ben Kennard, Paul Kegg, Helen Liebmann (cello); Andy Findon (flute); Tommy Reilly (harmonica); Chris Davis , Dan Higgins , Jamie Talbot, Philip Todd, Dave Bishop (saxophone); Guy Barker (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jerry Hey (trumpet, horns); John Barclay, Gary Grant, Simon Gardner (trumpet); Edward Hobart, Graham Ashton (flugelhorn); John Pignegny, John Rooke (French horn); Pete Beachill, William Frank "Bill" Reichenbach Jr. (trombone); Andy Connell (keyboards, drum programming, background vocals); Martin Phillipps (synthesizer, programming); Jess Bailey (synthesizer); Frank Ricotti (vibraphone, glockenspiel, snare drum, timpani, tubular bells); Mike Brittain, Chris Laurence (double bass); Chris Whitten (drums); Martin Jackson, Paul Staveley O'Duffy (drum programming); Dee Lewis, Stephanie de Sykes, Nathaniel Augustin (background vocals). Unknown Contributor Role: Levine Andrade. After the, er, "Breakout" success of Swing Out Sister's initial releases, co-founder Martin Jackson took a back seat to the contributions of Andy Connell and vocalist Corinne Drewery. With legendary pop songwriter and producer Jimmy Webb providing arrangements, Kaleidoscope World is perhaps as pure a pop album as there could be in the two-dimensional plastic world of the late '80s. The record is chock full of lush, lively arrangements dominated by big, boisterous horns and Drewery's rich, Dusty Springfield-esque vocal. It's not surprising that Swing Out Sister found their biggest audience in Japan; that country's Pizzicato Five draws upon the same honey pot of influences, adding an electronic twist. SOS employs synths, too, most effectively as the bubbling undercurrent of "Waiting Game" or on the theatrical instrumental "Kaleidoscope Affair." But the group's ability to replicate classic forms with new technology is still its strongest suit. The technicolor horns and rich strings of cuts like "You on My Mind" and "Where in the World" draw a direct line from the 1960s, while "Tainted" grooves on an organ that suggests the later cut-and-paste work of pop experimentalists Stereolab. This CD reissue of Kaleidoscope World fleshes out the set list with instrumental versions of "Precious Words" and "Masquerade," a string mix of "Forever Blue," and the additional instrumental "Coney Island Man," which is perfect Nehru suit-wearing music. ~ Johnny Loftus

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