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In 1997, Motown Records released the posthumous Marvin Gaye album, "Vulnerable". The album, which was to be released sometime in 1979 as "Ballads", was shelved for years due to possible commercial reasons.
Finally released, the album brings way to one of the singer's most poignant concept projects he ever put out. Reviving some 1960s recording sessions, Marvin put all of his emotions from his tumultuous personal life and bared his heart in the way that was more cathartic than what created "Here, My Dear", recorded around the same time frame as this one was. All the tracks are exquisite and this album produces some of Marvin's greatest vocals yet. A tragic masterpiece in more ways than one indeed.
Among the best is "Why Did I Choose You" both in the final cut and the alternate version, "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" - which included ...
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The late Marvin Gaye remains the most definitive male voices in Soul music. He truly was an utter genius and had such a creative and artistic flair and remains one of the key influences with todays new generation of wannabe Soul/R&B singers.
In October 1982, Marvin released his first (and his last) studio album for CBS Records, after fleeing from Motown Records in a bid, much like Diana Ross' exact reasons for escaping Motown, for wanting to exert total control over his career, an exercise he was most certainly capable of. The album would be the classic, Midnight Love, which though offered no social commentary or made any sort of profound political statement like much of his previous efforts had, it still stands as a compelling, solid production and a last triumph for the unbeatable legend of soul.
Marvin wrote all 8 songs ...
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To anyone who has listened to any part of his body of work, it isn't a surprise that Marvin Gaye was a huge jazz fan. Take his vocals, for instance. It was his love of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Frank Sinatra along with the stirring orchestras of vocal harmonies that surrounded him as a member of the doo wop group The Moonglows and his Hebrew Pentecostal background that served as his vocal influences. And for his first twenty years as a performer he thrilled audiences by forging an artistic style that combined exquisite phrasing and intensely personal vocal interpretations along with the ritual of discovery and submission through extravagant praise that he heard as a boy: that need to reach and be reached, to touch and be touched, to heal and be healed through majestic prayer to one's maker. You could hear that ...
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Product details
Title
Be Exalted
Performer
Marvin Sapp
Genre
R&B
Sub Genre
Soul
Release Date
25/07/2005
Recomended Retail Price
15.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2005
Label / Distributor
Verity / Integrity Music Europe
Engineer
Danny Duncan; Aaron Lindsey; Phil L
Producer
Aaron Lindsey; Israel Houghton; Ste
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
828766995121
Catalogue Number
82876699512
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel include: Marvin Sapp (vocals); Steve White (various instruments); Eric Brice (guitar); Nashville String Machine (strings); Jeff Robbins (tenor saxophone); Ryan Sharp (trumpet); Arthur Strong (organ); James Poyser (keyboards, percussion); Aaron Lindsey (keyboards); Darrell Freeman (bass instrument); Jeremy Haynes (drums); Javier Solis (percussion). Recording information: Platinum Lab, Nashville, Tennessee; Audio Bay, Rockford, MI; Whatbox, Houston, TX. Marvin Sapp's BE EXALTED opens with a burst of thunderous crowd noise that leads directly into the glorious "Be It Unto Me," a song that combines the sanctified fury of prime Staple Singers with the wild R&B power and hooky chorus of a classic Prince single. The rest of BE EXALTED continues in a similar vein, setting lyrics of devotion and praise to music based on old-school '70s and '80s soul. When Sapp testifies in the middle of a powerful ballad like "Trust In You," he sounds as much like Bill Withers as he does a minister, and his vocals are as strong as his belief. Al Green's spiritual albums are the most obvious touchstone, but on songs like the ultra-catchy electro-pop of "Changed," Sapp makes fine use of post-disco musical trends. As a result, BE EXALTED is that rarity, a contemporary gospel album that even non-believers are likely to enjoy.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Be It Unto Me
2.
Do You Know Him (Trendsetters mix)
3.
Be Exalted
4.
Trust In You
5.
Changed
6.
Perfect Peace
7.
Holy
8.
Everything That I Am
9.
That Name
10.
Smile
11.
Strong Tower
12.
He Won't Fail
13.
Do You Know Him (Tommygunn 1965 mix/bonus track)
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