Cameo - Style (1983) (vinyl Lp) - €7,00

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Style is the ninth studio album by the American funk band Cameo, released in 1983. 

It was their first album to introduce their Atlanta Artists label, with which they maintained their distribution through PolyGram.

At the time, Cameo was going through a transition, having gone from five members (Alligator Woman, 1982) to four, with an extreme makeover in their sound. 

Their former big funk band sound was now being replaced by all the elements of the electronic age (i.e., keyboards, synthesizers and Simmons drums).

Their music was self-proclaimed as "21st Century Bebop".

Released in 1983, Style is more high-tech than 1979's Secret Omen or 1980's Cameosis but not as high-tech as 1985's Single Life or 1986's Word Up! It is also an LP that finds singer/producer Larry Blackmon leading a downsized Cameo -- while the band had ten members at the start of the 1980s, it only has four on Style: Tomi Jenkins, Charles Singleton, Nathan Leftenant, and Blackmon himself. 

(And by Single Life in 1985, Cameo would only be a trio.)

Having cut way back on the horns on Style, Blackmon makes sure that keyboards and synthesizers play a major role on snappy funk items like "Cameo's Dance," "Aphrodisiac," "Slow Movin'," and the hit title song. 

On Cameo's late-'70s albums, keyboards took a back seat to horns -- on Style, it's just the opposite. Even on a remake of the standard "Can't Help Falling in Love" (a ballad that had been recorded by everyone from Elvis Presley to Doris Day), Cameo is more technology-minded. 

Style isn't among Cameo's essential albums, but it's an enjoyable effort that will appeal to die-hard fans.

Side one

1.  Aphrodisiac - 5:00

2.  This Life Is Not For Me - 3:30

3.  You’re A Winner - 3:30

4.  Can’t Help Falling In Love - 3:05

5.  Interlude (Serenity) - 1:30

Side two

1.  Style - 5:12

2.  Cameo’s Dance - 3:23

3.  Let’s Not Talk Slot - 3:31

4.  Slow Movin’ - 3:24

5.  Heaven Only Knows - 3:37

Cameo

• Larry Blackmon – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, drums, percussion
• Tomi Jenkins – lead and backing vocals
• Charlie Singleton – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, guitars, bass guitar
• Nathan Leftenant – trumpet, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Kevin Kendrick – Prophet-5, Roland Jupiter-8, Fender Rhodes, grand piano, Minimoog, Yamaha grand piano

Production

• Larry Blackmon – producer, mixing
• Tom Race – engineer, mixing
• Charlie Singleton – mixing
• Kenny LaMorta – assistant engineer
• Jack Skinner – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
• Bill Levy – art direction
• Garrett/Lewis/Johnson – art design
• Anthony Barboza – photography
• Yolanda McCoy – hair stylist
• Atlanta Artists Management, Inc. – management and direction

Notes

Release: 1983

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Funk / Soul

Label:  Casablanca

Catalog#  811 072-1

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €7,00