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| !:. | . album : Magical Sheperd . | .:! |
| ::. | artist : Miroslav Vitous | .:: |
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| !:. | label : Wounded Bird | .:! |
| !:. | cat.nr. : n/a | .:! |
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| !:. | year : 2003 genre : Jazz+funk | .:! |
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. Magical Shepherd was Weather Report bassist Miroslav .
. Vitous' fourth effort as a leader, released after he left .
. the band. It's a deep, raw, funky fusion record that .
. features -- besides one of the most hideously stupid .
. covers imaginable -- appearances by Herbie Hancock, Jack .
. DeJohnette, drummer James Gadson, and percussionist .
. Airto. Vocalists Cheryl Grainger and Onike contribute as .
. well, making this as much a basement-party and groove .
. record as a jazz one. Vitous played as much synth as .
. Hancock on this set and took it to the limit on "Basic .
. Laws," a nearly 12-minute excursion into space funk with .
. all the grease attached. The nine-and-a-half-minute "New .
. York City" was vying to be produced by Giorgio Moroder as .
. a disco slab, while the completely gone singing on the .
. title track made it a precursor to Sun Ra's Lanquidity .
. album a few years later. (Imagine Star Trek doing the .
. "Space Is the Place" episode brought to you by T.J. Swan .
. or Boogie Down Wine.) While this album is very much a .
. product of it's time, that doesn't make it bad -- not by .
. a long shot. Magical Shepherd is one of the better, .
. darker, and weirder fuzak albums of the time. There is no .
. soul-jazz here -- this is pedal-to-the-metal, .
. booty-grindin' R&B crossed with edgy monitors bleeding .
. into the red-jamming and dark-angel vocals, sending the .
. whole thing off into the stratosphere. This Wounded Bird .
. reissue on CD sounds fantastic and, while there are no .
. extra tracks, you don't need them. For anyone interested .
. in the wilder, woolier music of the mid-'70s, Magical .
. Shepherd holds up exceedingly well. ~ Thom Jurek .
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. Miroslav Vitous is best known as one of the foremost .
. young bassists in the jazz-rock movement of the late 60's .
. and early 70's. He was a founding member of Weather .
. Report and made numerous solo albums. This album, Magical .
. Shepherd, is making its worldwide CD debut. It features .
. such jazz luminaries as Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette & .
. Airto Moreira. It was originally issued on LP in 1976 on .
. Warner Brothers. Wounded Bird. 2003. .
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. Recorded at Wally Heider Recording Studios and Funky .
. Features, San Francisco, California. .
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. Personnel: Miroslav Vitous (guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, .
. synthesizer, guitar synthesizer, mini-Moog synthesizer); .
. Onike, Cheryl Grainger (vocals); Herbie Hancock (electric .
. piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, keyboards, .
. synthesizer, string synthesizer); Jack DeJohnette, James .
. Gadson (drums); Airto Moreira (percussion). .
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. Audio Remixer: David Rubinson. .
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. Recording information: Funky Features, San Francisco, CA; .
. Wally Heider Recording Studios, San Francisco, CA. .
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. Unknown Contributor Role: Cheryl Grainger. .
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. Personnel: Miroslav Vitous (synthesizer, Mini moog, .
. guitar, bass); Cheryl Grainger, Onike (vocals); Herbie .
. Hancock (Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, synthesizer); .
. Jack DeJohnette, James Gadson (drums); Airto Moreira .
. (percussion). .
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| !:. | 02 09:32 New York City | .:! |
| !:. | 03 05:10 Synthesizers Dance | .:! |
| !:. | 04 06:10 Magical Shepherd | .:! |
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