ARTIST: Terry Callier
TITLE: What Color Is Love
LABEL: Verve
GENRE: R&B
BITRATE: 193kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 40min total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-00-00
RIP DATE: 2009-12-11
Track List:
1. Dancing Girl 9:02
2. What Color Is Love 4:06
3. You're Goin' Miss Your 7:20
Candyman
4. Just As Long As We're In Love 3:41
5. Ho Tsing Mee (A Song Of The 4:21
Sun)
6. I'd Rather Be With You 6:40
7. You Don't Care 5:28
Like the artist himself, the music on this brilliant album defies all
categories, embracing Terry Callier's wide range of influences and experiences.
Callier's musical kaleidoscope is filled with funk, rock, folk, jazz, and even
classical influences. "Dancing Girl" opens the album with Charles Stepney's
majestic orchestration. This opus is the album's pinnacle, moving with soft
intensity toward soul-stirring crescendos. Songs like "What Color Is Love" and
"Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun)," an elegant antiwar prayer of confusion,
somehow avoid clichΘs or take them to another level. "You Goin' to Miss Your
Candyman" was made popular by Urban Species when they sampled it on "Listen" in
the early '90s, and not surprisingly, it sounds better in its original form. No
matter where you turn, Callier's passionate voice captures the sweeping drama of
the human condition. A lost romantic amid "concrete front yards," this album is
a must-have for any music connoisseur.