Chaka Khan - What'Cha Gonna Do for Me
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Artist: Chaka KhanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1996-04-29
Music Label: Warner Bros UK
Soundtracks:
- We Can Work It Out
- What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
- I Know You, I Live You
- Any Old Sunday
- We Got Each Other
- And The Melody Still Lingers On (Night In Tunisia)
- Night Moods
- Heed The Warning
- Father He Said
- Fate
- I Know You, I Live You (Reprise)
Free Music Notes for What'Cha Gonna Do for Me
Free Music Review: Paving The Way For Generations
Hit: 5 Stars
Sometimes there's a point in an artists career,and they never know exactly where there comes a time when there is a perfect match of musicianship,production,songwriting and vocals that just come together. This is also one of those cases where the album art actually says a lot about the sort of music contained within. We see a beaming,airbrushed Chaka looking enraptured with life and having just experienced a revelry of excitment. And that's exactly the same feeling I got after listening to this album. After two albums that placed Chaka in something of an urban,late 70's disco-funk context here Chaka is fully back to the power and vitality of her Rufus days. Her voice is an instrument that's part of the band,part of the song and fully involved in the entire musical experience. She never overwelmes the music and it never overwhelms her but.....it in a way is ALL overwelming. The arrangements are dramatic,cosmic,surprising and give me goosebumps just listening to the very involving virtuosity of what's here. This album has more electronic textures than before but they're used in the classiest possible way and you can really hear Chaka's noted high musical standards oozing out of every song. Billy Preston really bumps up the production to the N'th degree on the hard hitting,bass keyboard/horn led version of "We Can Work At Out" that has Chaka as pretty much the rest of the orchestra as it were.It comes to an abrupt start and you feel as if you've heard a whole album but....it goes on. Then you come to the urban fusion-jazz dynamics of the title song where Chaka's voice is yearning,searching,imagining and give you to feel she's living the song she's singing and she very likely was. "I Know You,I Live You" really kicks it out with one of the catchiest latin funk jams I've ever heard;after Chaka's done her thing vocally on the song it kicks into this amazing reverbed bass/drum interaction before she's right back in action. "Any Old Sunday" is the more relaxed of the tunes here,not a ballad but more of an interpretive piece for Chaka. "We Got Eachtother",sung with her brother Mark who obviously shares her tremendous vocal instrument is another reverb heavy sonic funk monster finding Chaka absolutely BAKED HIGH on love alone and singing in the most eurphoric way one can imagine. "And The Melody Still Lingers On (Night In Tunesia)"...well lets just say if nothing else here was that great this alone would make it a classic. With Stevie Wonder's brooding bass keyboard leading the way as Chaka takes her imrpovisational instrument right to the heart of the song. "Night Moods" says it all here as the only ballad-the musical again some of the most beautifully euphoric,non sentimental tribute to romance imaginable as Chaka goes from sensual,uncertain and moody at the change of a note and it's one of those handful of ballads that just punches you right out. "Heed The Warning" is this amazing,spiky keyboard led funk-rock jam that anyone with a heart will get instant goosebumps from. And...well aside from an honorable mention for the breezy disco-funk of "Fate" I cannot really say anymore about this album because just thinking about this music overwhelms me some. For anyone now who sees the key to making successful funk and R&B lies in unadorned,unproduced "real" instrumentation and understated vocals this album stands as an important reminder of how important the right kind of production flourishes and a strong voice with the ability to act as it's own musical instrument to greating truly magical funk and R&B that shimmers,sparkles and truly withstands the test of time.
What'Cha Gonna Do for Me Poster
Ms. Khan's Third Solo Album on Warner Bros. Is Arguably her Best Collaborative Effort with Legendary Producer Arif Mardin. The Repertoire Here Has More of an Overt Nod to Jazz with the Inclusion of "And the Melody Lingers on (Night in Tunisia) which features a Lyrical Tribute to Jazz Heroes and Cameo Appearances from the Late Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock and an "Excerpted" Passage from Charlie Parker. The Biggest Hit on the Charts this Album Produced was "i Know You, I Live You", While the Title Track was Favoured by Many FM Stations at the Time. An Oh So Solid Effort from One of R&b's Greatest Voices.Blues Music CDs
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