Chaka Khan - Chaka Khan
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Artist: Chaka KhanEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1998-06-30
Music Label: Import [Generic]
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Over the years there's been quite a little artist cult that's developed surrounding this album. Many music review books I've read name dropped it again and again as being a crownign achievment of her early career and the album even won her a grammy. All the same it would up being the most obscure Chaka Khan album during the CD reissue era. It's never been issued domestically and even Chaka's compilation Epiphany: The Best of Chaka Khan, Vol. 1 doesn't include any of it's songs. Having heard it on CD for the first time I have to say that in many ways this album very much lives up to all the hype surrounding it;one of the few albums that actually does so. One of the main reasons for that is that album sounds like nothing else in her vast catalog. This came out around the same time Chaka joined back up with Rufus for a reunion tour and interestingly enough this album is among the more consistantly funk oriented of her solo albums. Earlier recordings were open ended explorations of soul,pop-jazz,funk and disco yet this album features a somewhat electronic,bassy,thrusting sound that is very much in keeping with electro-funk style of the era but at the same time is still distinctly Chaka Khan. Her group of musicians on this album including Robbie Buchannon,Will Lee,Hiram Bullock as well as AWB members Hamish Stuart and Steve Ferrone absolutely cook musically throughout the album and that results in every song containing some of the finest vocal performances of Khan's career,marked by the fact she's relying more on strengh here than scaling up and down as is her trademark singing style. "Tearin' It Up" pulls this all together right from the start with Chaka and the bassy synth funk of the groove all in a deep framework. The Rick James duet of "Slow Dancin'" and the pounding,epic "Twisted" emphasizes a slower groove than was common during the naked funk era and that is much to Chaka's credit as she understands funk by it's nature tends to be a tad of a slower music to start with. The majority of the tunes here are uptempo however including th cowboy/funk send up "Best In The West",complete with fiddle solo and one of those hooky melodies Chaka seemed to be able to so easily turn out during her earlier Arif Mardin era. Much has been said about "Be Bop Medly" and trust me;it's all deserved. She links a medly of her be-bop era favorites,everything from Monk's "Epistrophy" and Coltrane's "Giant Steps" in and around this fast paced,bass synthesizer led naked funk jam and the music and melodies all work with eachother wonderfully. In this case she does do more vocal scaling but it's needed;she does really well with jazz composition and this song really takes the cake. Her powerhouse version of "Got To Be There" and "So Not To Worry" are the slower tunes here but are more midtempo than ballads and are the more relaxed,organically textured of the tunes here. "Pass It On (A Sure Thing)" is another uptempo funk scorcher to the end the album off on. In terms of funk music construction and intense musical dynamics there are very few albums I can think of offhand that match it. It is still a shame that today the only CD version of this album comes from the boxed set Original Album Series:Chaka/Chaka Khan/I Feel For You/Naughty/What Cha' Gonna Do For Me. If you don't have any Chaka Khan albums,pick that up without a second thought. But if you only are missing this one,this CD edition is essential to pick up if you find it reasonably because it represents an important creative step in her musical development as a solo artist.
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