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Friday Oct 04, 2019
Featherweight
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Friday Oct 04, 2019
How much production can you do without and still have disco? Must you have a beat, even? Here we have disco light as a feather inspired by Carli Bruni’s 2017 rethink of the Stones’ “Miss You,” delivered as a samba whisper that may be funkier than Mick & Co. Persia is also a find; it came from the final days of disco at Casablanca and seems to have been so slender as to have made nary an impression. “Comme Ci, Comme Ca” is choice, nevertheless. The Strutt contribution is an instrumental version that becomes soufflé fluffy with the vocals removed. (Reminds me of Young-Holt Limited’s “Soulful Strut.”) Demi Roussos’ “L.O.V.E.” is lighter because this is the pared-back album version, not the full-on disco single. El Coco’s “Afrodesia,” however is the extended ’82 Collectables which feels lighter to me than the more concentrated ’78 Dancing in Paradise version. And then there’s Chic who slow things way down for “At Last…” and pare things way down for “I Love…” with Johnny Mathis; as light as a track can be and still be disco, I think.
Keep on Making Me High – Unyque ’79; Symphonic Soul – Henry Mancini ’75; By the Time I Get to Phoenix – the Vast Majority ’76; Afrodesia – El Coco ’82; Let Me Be Your Fantasy – Love Symphony Orchestra ’78; Georgia – Panama ’78; Boogie Oogie Oogie – the New Fifty Guitars ’78; Another Star – California Smoker ’78; L.O.V.E. Got a Hold on Me – Demis Roussos ’78; That Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady – Gonzalez ’79; Comme Ci, Comme Ca – Persia ’79; I Love My Lady – Johnny Mathis ’80; Miss You – Carla Bruni ’17; Said You Didn’t Love Him — Strutt ’75; Soul Je T’Aime – Sylvia ’75; At Last I Am Free – Chic ’78
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