5036436132126

The Collection & The Collection Vol 2

Shakatak

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: SECDD258

Release Date:  03 December 2021

Label:  Secret Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5036436132126

Genres:  Jazz  Smooth Jazz  

  • Description

    This 2 CD collection features some of Shakatak's best known work, including a number of remixes from 1991's Remix Best Album.


    Enjoy the radical reworking of "Easier Said Than Done", original club edit of "Down On The Street" as well as the originals of some of the groups earliest (and many would argue purest) work such as the classics:" Brazilian Dawn", "Living In The UK" and "Feels Like The Right Time".


    Shakatak provided the bridge between high-quality jazz and dance music in the early '80s and continue to this day producing sophisticated and well received work. Formed in the late '70s, the line-up has remained stable: Bill Sharpe on keyboards, George Anderson on bass, Roger Odell on drums and Jill Saward on vocals. A huge homegrown underground movement began to swell in the late '70s, influenced by key American artists such as Ronnie Laws, Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd. The genre became known as Jazz-Funk, and momentarily Shakatak blazed at the vanguard of it alongside groups such as Level 42 and Light Of The World.




  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Down On The Street
      • 2. Day By Day Featuring Al Jarreau
      • 3. Invitations
      • 4. Dark Is The Night
      • 5. You'll Never Know
      • 6. Don't Blame It On Love
      • 7. Lady (To Billie Holiday)
      • 8. Holding On
      • 9. Streetwalkin'
      • 10. Night Birds
      • 11. Easier Said Than Done
      • 12. Out Of This World
      • 13. Dr. Dr.
      • 14. Bitter Sweet
      • 15. Something Special
      • 16. Light On My Life
      • 17. Turn The Music Up
      • 18. Mr. Manic And Sister Cool

      Disc 2

      • 1. Brazilian Dawn
      • 2. Feels Like The Right Time
      • 3. If You Could See Me Now
      • 4. Living In The UK
      • 5. Rio Nights
      • 6. Stranger
      • 7. Walk The Walk (Hip Mix)
      • 8. Lose Myself
      • 9. Lonely Afternoon
      • 10. Don't Say That Again
      • 11. Easier Said Than Done (Remixed By Nigel Wright)
      • 12. Night Birds (Remixed By Nigel Wright)
      • 13. Invitations (Remixed By Nigel Wright)
      • 14. Out Of This World (Remixed By Steve Mac)
      • 15. Dark Is The Night (Remixed By Steve Mac)
      • 16. Down On The Street (Original Club Edit)