Carole King - Fantasy
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Artist: Carole KingEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Fantasy Beginning
- You've Been Around Too Long
- Being at War With Each Other
- Directions
- That's How Things Go Down
- Weekdays
- Haywood
- A Quiet Place to Live
- Welfare Symphony
- You Light Up My Life
- Corazón
- Believe in Humanity
- Fantasy End
Free Music Notes for Fantasy
Free Music Review: In Fantasy You Can Be Whatever You Please
Hit: 5 Stars
It goes without saying Carole King had one of the most amazing career of anyone who entered the singer/songwriter movement of the early 70's.A year and a half earlier her Tapestry really broke the door wide open on this movement.True Carole,James Taylor and Carley Simon really helped popularize the style but at the same time the black community were paying attention as well. Funk and soul were beginning to come into their own as artists from Detroit,Chicago and Memphis began expressing themselves more freely in the creative sense,and taking more control over their music.The social statements baught on by this hybrid resulted in a kind of R&B version of the singer/songwriter movement that result in classics by the like of Bill Withers' Just as I Am,1970's Donny Hathaway or even such obscure latter day gems as Terry Callier'sWhat Color Is Love or 1976's Joan Armatrading. Basically speaking this style of singer/songwriter soul made it's impact on Carole King early on,and this album is the next logical step. In many ways this is King's most R&B oriented release-somewhat of a continuation of what Laura Nyro started in the 1960's.Only the musical tide has changed and Laura employs members of the jazz funk band The Crusaders to beef up her sound that put her in the vanguard of this relatively new subgenre.Interwoven between more intros,interludes and almostr jazzy instrumentals such as "Welfare Symphony" are down and out funk such as "You've Been Around Too Long" and the story song "Haywood",both weaving personal tales loosely interelating with themes of everyone in an inner city area in with sweet,string drenched,horn soaked grooves right out of the Curtis Mayfield style school. "Believe In Humanity" is a more blatant humanist statement set to a more blatant groove out of the Billy Preston style school;all of this is extrodinarily funky stuff.This album is laregely remembered for it's it "Corazon'",a tune that actually fairly uncommerical in it's Brazillian jazz-funk groove kind of way.This is the kind of thing that makes you realize how random the selection of hits are from respective albums. Of course that doesn't mean the ballads aren't soulful;Carole's always were but "Directions","A Quiet Place" and even the softer "Being At War With Each Other" definately have it in abundance. Taken together this suite of songs do not merely showcase some kind of stylistic excercise but how close Carole's music (as well as much of singer/songwriter pop to begin with) is to soul and funk in many ways. James Taylor's 1976 album In the Pocket has the very same quality in many ways. But this is one of the earlier concepts of blending the two genres so one could'nt tell where it ended or began. And it's more then worth anyones time who chooses to give it a chance.
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