Chic (Remastered) Chic

• 1 Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) (Remastered) 08:22
• 2 Sao Paulo (Remastered) 05:03
• 3 You Can Get By (Remastered) 05:44
• 4 Everybody Dance (Remastered) 06:42
• 5 Est-Ce Que C'est Chic (Remastered) 03:56
• 6 Falling In Love With You (Remastered) 04:32
• 7 Strike Up The Band (Remastered) 04:33
• Total Runtime 38:52

Info zu Chic (Remastered)

Although their follow-up album, C'EST CHIC, was the one that contained their anthemic disco hit 'La Freak,' this 1977 debut set the stage for the band's ultimate success as one of the iconic vocal groups of the disco era. CHIC album Songwriters Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards (guitarist and bassist, respectively) were masters at concocting simple, driving grooves with percussive, hooky bass lines, and an aura of decadent fun, underscored by the indiscriminate dropping of French expressions.

Lead singer Norma Jean Wright was particularly expressive in her upper range, creating a template for the hot-to-trot, feline sound associated with female disco vocalists. Backing singer Alfa Anderson holds her own here, too, and the women's voices blend well on such hits as 'Dance, Dance, Dance' and 'Strike Up the Band.'

There can be little argument that CHIC was disco's greatest band; and, working in a heavily producer-dominated field, they were most definitely a band. By the time CHIC appeared in the late '70s, disco was already slipping into the excess that eventually caused its downfall. CHIC bucked the trend by stripping disco's sound down to its basic elements; their funky, stylish grooves had an organic sense of interplay that was missing from many of their overproduced competitors. CHIC's sound was anchored by the scratchy, James Brown-style rhythm guitar of Nile Rodgers and the indelible, widely imitated (sometimes outright stolen) bass lines of Bernard Edwards; as producers, they used keyboard and string embellishments economically, which kept the emphasis on rhythm. CHIC's distinctive approach not only resulted in some of the finest dance singles of their time, but also helped create a template for urban funk, dance-pop, and even hip-hop in the post-disco era. Not coincidentally, Rodgers and Edwards wound up as two of the most successful producers of the '80s.

Norma Jean, vocals
Alfa Anderson, vocals
Nile Rodgers, guitar & vocals
Bernard Edwards, bass & vocals
Tony Thompson, drums

Additional personnel:
Luther Vandross, David Lasley, Norma Jean, Alfa Anderson, Robin Anderson, Diva Gray (vocals); Gloria Augustini (harp); George Young, Vito Rendace (flutes, tenor saxophones); Kenny Lehman (woodwinds); Jon Faddis (trumpet); Barry Rodgers (trombone); Robert Sabino, Andy Schwartz, Tom Coppola (keyboards); David Friedman (vibraphone, orchestral bells); Sammy Figueroa (percussion).

Recorded at Electric Lady Studios and The Power Station, New York.
Producers: Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, Kenny Lehman, Bob Edwards.
Engineers: Robert Drake, Mike Frondelli, Ron Johnson, Tom Savarese, Bob Clearmountain.

Digitally remastered.

Keine Biografie vorhanden.

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet