- 12inch
- Digital
La Famille & Caron Wheeler
Dancer
Freestyle Records
- Cat No: FSR116
- Release: 2022-05-20
名門Freestyleが新たにレーベル内でスタートした、レアでクラシックなUKファンク、ソウル＆ブギーの知られざる名品を発掘リイシューするシリーズ第二弾！！！限定盤12インチ。45回転。音質バッチリ。
Track List
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1. La Famille & Caron Wheeler - Dancer (Vocal Mix)
05:26 -
2. La Famille & Caron Wheeler - Dancer (Instrumental Mix)
05:26
24bit/44.1khz [wav/flac/aiff/alac/mp3]
Freestyle comes with it again - presenting the first officially licensed reissue for a previously white label-only slice of fantastic 1982 UK boogie funk, featuring the vocal talents of a then 19 year-old Caron Wheeler!
La Famille were a group put together at the turn of the 1980s by seasoned reggae & jazz guitarist (and later band-member with the award-winning Jazz Jamaica) Alan Weekes. The band's main line-up consisted not only of a young Wheeler, but also a young Cleveland Watkiss - as well as the late Claudia Fontaine (who would go on to pair with Caron as Afrodiziak) & Roy Hamilton - with guitar, arrangement and production provided by Weekes.
While the group was short-lived - recording only this 12" alongside a couple of singles for Leonard "Santic" Chin's Sanity label (a stellar cover of the Mary Jane Girl's classic All Night Long) and Alan's later Bpop label (the down-tempo groover Lost in Paradise, co-arranged alongside Watkiss) - there is no denying the talent on display here, as the years and decades that followed can surely attest.
La Famille were a group put together at the turn of the 1980s by seasoned reggae & jazz guitarist (and later band-member with the award-winning Jazz Jamaica) Alan Weekes. The band's main line-up consisted not only of a young Wheeler, but also a young Cleveland Watkiss - as well as the late Claudia Fontaine (who would go on to pair with Caron as Afrodiziak) & Roy Hamilton - with guitar, arrangement and production provided by Weekes.
While the group was short-lived - recording only this 12" alongside a couple of singles for Leonard "Santic" Chin's Sanity label (a stellar cover of the Mary Jane Girl's classic All Night Long) and Alan's later Bpop label (the down-tempo groover Lost in Paradise, co-arranged alongside Watkiss) - there is no denying the talent on display here, as the years and decades that followed can surely attest.
第一弾、Candy McKenzie「Remind Me」リイシューも最高でしたが、今作も極上です。その後は言わずもがな、SOUL Ⅱ SOULでの活躍でもお馴染み、当時19歳だった若かりしCaron Wheelerをフィーチャーしたシャラマー・マナーの素晴らしきトロピカル爽快UKブギーファンクが初のオフィシャル・ライセンス盤としてリリース。La Familleは、1980年初頭、ジャズ・ジャマイカのメンバーでもあったレゲエ＆ジャズのベテラン・ギタリストAlan Weekesによって結成されたグループで、若き日のCaron Wheelerだけでなく、若き日のCleveland Watkiss、後にCaron WheelerとAfrodiziakを結成するClaudia Fontaine、Roy Hamiltonというメンバーで構成されていたグループで、この12インチ含めた数枚シングルのみを残して解散してしまったという短い期間のみ活動していたグループであったという。よりトロピカルな心地よさ、それぞれの楽器とアンサンブルの魅力が伝わるBPM113ほど、ミッドテンポ・インストバージョンSide-B「Dancer（Instrumental Mix）」も珠玉。 (コンピューマ) (12inchのコメントから参照)