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Faces is the tenth studio album by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire released on October 14, 1980, on ARC/Columbia Records. The album reached number 10 on the Billboard Top LPs chart,
Faces was partly recorded in the Caribbean island of Montserrat and produced by EWF leader Maurice White.
Faces is the first E, W & F album that doesn't really shift things up to a significant degree, or at least doesn't focus on any specific new direction (very crudely, you could say that All n All was their "Latin" album and I Am was their "disco" album, for example).
What Faces does is consolidate all the group's strands - the funk (e.g. 'Let me Talk', 'Pride'), the joyous "roller-pop" ('Turn It Into Something Good', 'Sparkle'...), the widescreen ballads ('You', 'You Went Away') and even a streamlined, rather spectacular return to jazz-fusion ('Faces').
The double album format (well, as was) is not used to experiment per se, nor is it used for filler - there's shockingly little filibustering here (take that, Chicago) - but a fair amount is instead given over to illuminating the contributions of less-exposed group members and collaborators.
The double album format (well, as was) is not used to experiment per se, nor is it used for filler - there's shockingly little filibustering here (take that, Chicago) - but a fair amount is instead given over to illuminating the contributions of less-exposed group members and collaborators.
While fitting neatly into the overall tapestry, this approach is characterised by the Maurice-free weepy 'You Went Away' and the Doobie Brothers-esque 'Back on the Road', a cowrite with guitarist Al McKay which both pokes more emphatically rock-wards than previously whilst acting as a showcase for McKay's lyrical jazz-rock soloing.
While it would be difficult to call either song inspired, exactly, both are undeniably solid, highly enjoyable and - excepting one or two subjective picks - that's how this generous album plays out as a whole.
The group seem somehow to have surpassed themselves in performance terms, too: White and Bailey hold the fort; McKay's fluid guitar flourishes invest the record with a character it otherwise might lack (he seems to be auditioning for Steely Dan and I'm frankly alarmed he didn't get the gig); whilst the Phenix Horns seem on a superhuman rampage (and no, I'm not talking about the varispeeded intro).
Side one
1. Let Me Talk (4:09)
2. Turn It Into Something Good (4:10)
3. Pride (4:11)
4. You (5:10)
Side two
1. Sparkle (3:50)
2. Back on the Road (3:33)
3. Song in My Heart (4:17)
4. You Went Away (4:24)
Side three
1. And Love Goes On (4:05)
2. Sailaway (4:37)
3. Take It to the Sky (3:50)
4. Win or Lose (3:53)
Side four
1. Share Your Love (3:17)
2. In Time (4:13)
3. Faces (8:02)
Companies
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc.
- Copyright © – CBS Inc.
- Made By – Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd.
- Produced For – Kalimba Productions
- Published By – Saggifire Music
- Published By – Verdangel Music
- Published By – Cherubim Music
- Published By – Steelchest Music
- Published By – Sir & Trini Music
- Published By – Ninth Music
- Published By – Ross Vannelli Publishing
- Published By – Rutland Road Music
- Published By – Almo Music Corp.
- Published By – Foster Frees Music, Inc.
- Published By – Irving Music, Inc.
- Published By – Golden Cornflake Music
- Published By – Silver Sun Music
- Published By – Charleville Music
- Published By – Newton House Music
- Published By – Criga Music
- Recorded At – George Massenburg Studios
- Recorded At – AIR Studios, Montserrat
- Recorded At – Davlen Sound Studios
- Recorded At – Filmways/Heider Recording
- Recorded At – Royce Hall
- Mixed At – AIR Studios, Montserrat
- Mixed At – Davlen Sound Studios
- Mixed At – Filmways/Heider Recording
- Mixed At – Royce Hall
- Mastered At – The Mastering Lab
- Pressed By – CBS, Haarlem – 01-88498
Credits
- Arranged By [Horn, Strings] – Erich Bulling (tracks: B4, C2), Tom Tom 84 (tracks: B1, B2, C3, D1,)
- Arranged By [Horn] – Jerry Hey (tracks: A1, A2 to A4, B3, D2, D3, C1)
- Arranged By [Strings] – David Foster (tracks: A1, A4, B3, C1, D1, D3), James Newton Howard (tracks: A2), Jerry Peters (tracks: C4)
- Art Direction, Design – Roger Carpenter
- Bass – Verdine White
- Bells [Uncredited], Bells [Orchestra Bells, Uncredited] – Gary Coleman
- Cello – Albert Gill, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Karmazyn, Earl Madison, Frederick Seykora, Jacqueline Lustgarten, Larry Corbett, Marston Smith, Louise Zeyen, Miguel Martinez, Olivier Nils, Nina Deveritch, Raymond Kelley, Ronald Cooper
- Concertmaster – Assa Drori, Harris Goldman, Janice Gower
- Drums, Percussion – Fred White
- Engineer – Ernie Sheesley, Franklin Allen, Geoff Irons, George Morgan, Jeff Borgeson, John Silcott, Mark Touhy, Ray Gonzales, Reuben, Robert Wolstein, Ron Pendragon, Steve Jackson, Tchad Thompson, Wally Heider
- French Horn – Alan Robinson, Arthur Maebe, George Price, Marilyn Robinson, Vincent DeRosa
- Guitar – Al McKay, Johnny Graham, Marlo Henderson, Steve L. Lukather
- Harp – Dorothy Jeanne Ashby
- Illustration [Photo-light Illustration] – Kenvin Lyman
- Keyboards – David Foster, Garry Glenn
- Keyboards, Organ – Jerry Peters
- Management [Exclusive Representation] – Cavallo-Ruffalo Management
- Mastered By – Michael Reese
- Other [Casting] – Kathy Kowles
- Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa, Ralph Johnson
- Photography By [Assistant] – C. Ness, Francie Moore
- Photography By [Inside Cover] – Bruce Talamon
- Photography By [Outside Cover, Poster] – Jim Shea
- Piano, Synthesizer, Programmed By [Synthesizers] – Larry Dunn
- Producer, Vocals, Drums, Kalimba – Maurice White
- Recorded By – George Massenburg
- Recorded By, Mixed By – George Massenburg, Ken Fowler
- Saxophone [Uncredited] – Jeff Clayton
- Saxophone, Flute – Fred Jackson Jr., Lawrence Williams
- Tenor Saxophone – Andrew Woolfolk
- Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Don Myrick
- Trombone – William Reichenbach, Fred Wesley, George Bohanon, Louis Satterfield
- Trumpet – Bobby Bryant, Chuck Findley, Gary E. Grant, Jerry Hey, Michael Harris, Nolan Smith Jr., Oscar Brashear, Steve Madaio
- Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Rahmlee Michael Davis
- Tuba – John Johnson
- Typography [Typographic Design] – Jim Wood
- Viola – Allan Harshman, Barbara Thomason, Brenton Banks, Bryana Sherman, David Schwartz, Gareth Nuttycombe, Harry Hyams, Herschel Wise, James Ross, Laury Woods, Leanna Sherman, Marilyn Baker, Patricia Matthews, Renita Koven, Roland Kato, Rollice Dale, Ronald Strauss
- Violin – Arkady Shindelman, Barry Socher, Bernard Kundell, Don Palmer, Endre Granat, Gina Kronstadt, Glenn Dicterow, Haim Shtrum, Harold Dicterow, Henry Ferber, Henry Roth, Irvin Giller, Isabelle Daskoff, Jack Gootkin, Janet Lakatos, Jerome Reisler, Jerome Webster, John Wittenburg, Joseph Goodman, Joseph Shoenbrun, Joy Lyle, Karen Jones , Mari Tsumura Botnick, Mark Cargill, Marvin Limonick, Mary Lundquist, Michael Markman, Michael Nowack, Norman Carr, Pavel Farkas, Reginald Hill, Bobby Dubow, Robert Jung (2), Robert Lipsett, Ron Clark, Ronald Folsom, Shari Zippert, Sheldon Sanov, Sid Page, Sidney Sharp, Vicky Sylvester, William Henderson , William Kurasch
- Vocals, Congas, Percussion – Philip Bailey
Notes
Release: 1980
Format: 2LP
Genre: Soul, Funk
Label: Columbia Records
Catalog# CBS 88498
Vinyl: Excellent
Cover: Excellent (Gatefold)
Prijs: €20,00
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