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Product Information for "Eye Of The Beholder - Chick Corea" »
Product details
Title
Eye Of The Beholder
Performer
Chick Corea
Genre
Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre
Keyboard/Synthesizer
Release Date
03/03/2003
Original Release Year
1988
Label / Distributor
Universal IMS / Universal Music
Engineer
Bernie Kirsh
Producer
Chick Corea
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
11105956420
Catalogue Number
E595642
SPAR code
ADD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Chick Corea Elektric Band: Chick Corea (piano, synthesizer); Eric Marienthal (saxophone); Frank Gambale (guitar); John Patitucci (bass); Dave Weckl (drums). Additional personnel: John Novello (synthesizer). Recorded at Mad Hatter Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California. Includes liner notes by Chick Corea. After a highly impressive debut album and a stylistically simpler sophomore release, the Chick Corea Elektric Band proceeded to produce an album that was musically more advanced than anything they had accomplished before. The result, EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, is arguably the best record the band produced in their seven-year existence. With saxophonist Eric Marienthal and guitarist Frank Gambale on board to enhance the core trio of Corea, Dave Weckl (drums) and John Patitucci (bass), EYE is the perfect balance of the group's stunning technical chops, musical artistry and technological wizardry. The most obvious difference on this record is the incorporation of more natural, acoustic sounds into the "electric" format. Corea's use of acoustic piano (enhanced by synthesizers), Weckl's natural drum and percussion sounds, Marienthal's sax and even Gambale's use of some acoustic guitar lend a much warmer vibe to EYE than previous efforts. What's more, many compositions, including "Home Universe," "Eternal Child," "Beauty" and "Ezinda" have a very chamber-ensemble feel with many varied textures and dynamics. Finally, the title track is a spectacular Spanish-flavored barnburner in the style of Corea's "Spain" that showcases each member's strengths to the fullest.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Home Universe
2.
Eternal Child
3.
Forgotten Past
4.
Passage
5.
Beauty
6.
Cascade (part I)
7.
Cascade (part II)
8.
Trance Dance
9.
Eye Of The Beholder
10.
Ezinda (bonus track)
11.
Amnesia (bonus track)
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