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Personnel includes: Cat Stevens (vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic & electric pianos, Clavinet, organ, ARP & RMI synthesizers, bass) Phil Upchurch (guitar); Jean Roussel (elctric piano, bass); Paul Martinez, Herbie Flowers (bass); Gerry Conway (drums, percussion); Bernard Purdie (drums); Patti Austin, Tasha Thomas, Barbara Massey (background vocals).
Producer: Cat Stevens.
Reissue producer: Bill Levenson.
Recorded at Dynamic Studios, Kingston, Jamaica in 1973. Originally released on A&M (4391).
Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (December 1999, Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
This is a limited edition digipack.
Personnel includes: Cat Stevens (vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic & electric pianos, Clavinet, organ, ARP & RMI synthesizers, bass) Phil Upchurch (guitar); Jean Roussel (elctric piano, bass); Paul Martinez, Herbie Flowers (bass); Gerry Conway (drums, percussion); Bernard Purdie (drums); Patti Austin, Tasha Thomas, Barbara Massey (background vocals).
Producer: Cat Stevens.
Reissue producer: Bill Levenson.
Recorded at Dynamic Studios, Kingston, Jamaica in 1973. Originally released on A&M (4391).
Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (December 1999, Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
Between 1970 and 1972, Cat Stevens recorded four albums in the same manner, using the same producer and many of the same musicians, painting the album covers, and assigning the records ponderous titles. Things changed with his next album, Foreigner. The recording itself had been produced by Stevens, and while a couple of Stevens' usual backup musicians had been retained, New York session musicians appeared, and second guitarist Alun Davies was gone. With him went the acoustic guitar interplay that had been the core of Stevens' sound, replaced by more elaborate keyboard-based arrangements complete with strings, brass, and a female vocal trio featuring Patti Austin. It's easy to look at the 18-plus minute "Foreigner Suite" that took up the first side and accuse Stevens of excess and indulgence. What should be kept in mind, however, is that his peers in 1973 were acts like Jethro Tull and Yes, who in turn were taking their cue from the Beatles' Abbey Road and the Who's Tommy. Call Foreigner ambitious, then, rather than indulgent. Actually, the suite is full of compelling melodic sections and typically emotive singing that could have made for an album side's worth of terrific four-minute Cat Stevens songs, if only he had composed them that way. As it is, the suite is a collection of tantalizing fragments. But the album's second side, featuring the Top 40 hit "The Hurt," demonstrates that, even in the four-minute range, his songwriting and arranging were becoming overly busy. On the whole, Foreigner marked a slight fall-off in quality from Catch Bull at Four, which itself had marked a slight fall-off from Teaser and the Firecat. The decline seemed more extreme, though, because Foreigner clearly was intended to be better than its predecessors. That's the risk of ambition. ~ William Ruhlmann
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Foreigner Music | List Price | $9.95 (You save $3.46) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter | | Label | A & M | | Orig Year | 1973 | | All Time Sales Rank |  10760  | | CD Universe Part number | 1094896 | | Catalog number | 546887 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 25, 2000 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Engineer | John Middleton | | Personnel | Cat Stevens - vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic & electric pianos, Clavinet, organ, ARP & RMI synthesizers, bass Phil Upchurch
Herbie Flowers - bass
Tasha Thomas
Gerry Conway - drums, percussion
Jean Roussel - elctric piano, bass
Barbara Massey - background vocals
Paul Martinez
Also: Phil Upchurch, Patti Austin, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie | | Additional Info | Remastered |
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Personnel: Cat Stevens (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Alun Davies (guitar); Peter Gabriel (flute); John Fell Ryan (bass instrument); Harvey Burns (percussion).
Cat Stevens virtually disappeared from the British pop scene in 1968, at the age of 20, after a meteoric start to his career. He had contracted tuberculosis and spent a year recovering, from both his illness and the strain of being a teenage pop star, before returning to action in the spring of 1970 -- as a very different 22-year-old -- with Mona Bone Jakon. Fans who knew him from 1967 must have been surprised. Under the production aegis of former Yardbird Paul Samwell-Smith, he introduced a group of simple, heartfelt ...
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Personnel: Cat Stevens (vocals, guitar); Alun Davies (guitar); John Rostein (violin); John Ryan (bass); Harvey Burns (drums).
This is a limited edition digipak.
Personnel: Cat Stevens (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Alun Davies (guitar); John Rostein (violin); John Ryan (bass); Harvey Burns (drums).
Producer: Paul Samwell-Smith.
Reissue producer: Bill Levenson.
Digitally remastered by Bill Levenson (December 1999, Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
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NEPO SOTERISOULFUL AFRICAN POP, WORLD BEAT JAZZ“Creative, rhythmic, sensitive…I knew he was going somewhere with his music.”Jimmy WoodeFormer bass player w/ Duke Ellington“Nepo plays with rhythmic fire and cool gentleness!”Ibrahima CamaraFormer percussionist w/ Stevie WonderNEPO SOTERI is a survivor of the Rwandan civil war. His music is directly influenced by the raw rhythms and stylized sounds unique to such African countries as Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia where he spent his youth traveling as a refugee. Now living in New York, guitarist-bassist, singer, composer and virtuoso instrumentalist, draws inspiration from the music of his youth, to create his own trademark sounds filled with soulful, World Jazz, spiced with a twist of Funk and R&B and mellowed with an ageless African World Beat.His childhood experiences of daily struggle simply to survive as a refugee from a civil war-torn nation, hardened Nepo’s determination to become educated. This drove him to escape from the Kimuli Refugee Camp in Tanzania to head to Kenya for opportunities of schooling, leaving his family behind. But he never forgot his experiences of singing in the church, his mother’s encouragement to keep singing , drumming and filling his life with music and the thrill he would get when sneaking away at night to watch the Watwa pigmies play their infectious music and dancing all night long. These memories would instill in Nepo the beginning of a lifelong thirst to learn and play music incessantly. His first performance was at the age of ten, when he sang and danced before the President of Tanzania. It’s been a long journey from that first performance in Tanzania to his regular appearances throughout New York City’s clubs and prestigious venues. He began playing in local bands in Nairobi’, Kenya’s famous Starlight Club. He moved about from city to city in Kenya and Ethiopia. In each new city he picked up new sounds, like the blending of African and Arab elements , the use of five-tone melodic structures of Ethiopian pop, Congolese guitar driven, rumba based grooves, afro beat style of Fela Kuti,or the world beat style of African band Osibisa. He also loved many of the different American styles of music and was inspired by various artists such as George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. Nepo’s music evolved into his own unique eclectic style that blended pieces of all these different styles and rhythms. Nepo’s world travels continued into Europe, and finally to his golden dream of America, to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston Ma. He had heard of Berklee from reading a Down Beat magazine given to him by, Jimmy Woode, the former bass player for Duke ...
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