Feel

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Release Date: 25 February 2022

Label: MPS

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4029759149439

Genres: Jazz Fusion

Release Date: 21 September 2018

Label: MPS

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4029759128564

Genres: Jazz Fusion

Description
Reissue of George Duke's classic 1975 jazz-funk-fusion album 'Feel', featuring Flora Purim, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler and Airto Moreira.

This album with the strange psychedelic sci-fi cover draws a tighter circle around Duke's fusion language. The keyboard master ventures deep into his synthesizer laboratory. Their textures become a more essential component of his pieces, attaining orchestral dimensions, as evidenced in the opener, Funny Funk, with its smacking, squishing tongue-in-cheek dialogue between the synths. A virtuoso layering of the keyboards is also central to Cora Joberge, and on Rashid, Duke's electronic orchestra explodes over the stormy drums of Leon "Ndugu" Chancler.

Duke shows himself to be a singer with a soulful sound. Shortly before this recording he had shelved his trombone so that he could communicate more directly with the audience, as can be heard in the hymnal, dreamlike title piece. The guest list of players make for an especially exciting concoction. No less than Duke's playing companion Frank Zappa, under the cryptic pseudonym Obdewl'l X, performs some adventuresome guitar passages on Love and Old Slippers. On the California-sunshine pop samba, Yana Aminah, we have a surprise visit by Brazilian Flora Purim, wife of percussionist Airto Moreira, who opens up his bag of tricks on The Once Over, and plays on three more tracks.

Description
This album with the strange psychedelic sci-fi cover draws a tighter circle around Duke's fusion language. The keyboard master ventures deep into his synthesizer laboratory. Their textures become a more essential component of his pieces, attaining orchestral dimensions, as evidenced in the opener, Funny Funk , with its smacking, squishing tongue-in-cheek dialogue between the synths. A virtuoso layering of the keyboards is also central to Cora Joberge , and on Rashid , Duke's electronic orchestra explodes over the stormy drums of Leon Ndugu Chancler. Duke shows himself to be a singer with a soulful sound.Shortly before this recording he had shelved his trombone so that he could communicate more directly with the audience, as can be heard in the hymnal, dreamlike title piece. The guest list of players make for an especially exciting concoction. No less than Duke's playing companion Frank Zappa, under the cryptic pseudonym Obdewl l X, performs some adventuresome guitar passages on Love and Old Slippers . On the California-sunshine pop samba, Yana Aminah , we have a surprise visit by Brazilian Flora Purim, wife of percussionist Airto Moreira, who opens up his bag of tricks on The Once Over , and plays on three more tracks.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting