Sonny Sharrock - Highlife (1990) {Enemy EMY 119-2}
Sonny Sharrock - Highlife (1990) {Enemy EMY 119-2}
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© 1990 Enemy Records | EMY 119-2
Jazz / Fusion / Avant-Garde Jazz / Guitar
Highlife was Sonny Sharrock's first studio album in three years, and it bore witness to several slight modifications in the guitarist's approach. Gone were bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer Pheeroan akLaff, who had moved on to other projects; they were replaced by Charles Baldwin and Lance Carter, respectively, who joined additional drummer Abe Speller. Dave Snider's Korg synthesizer also makes its studio debut (he had appeared on the Live in New York set), which immediately makes the overall ensemble sound simultaneously brighter and tinnier. Even past the added timbre of the keyboards, Sharrock seems to be searching for ways to push his music forward, as he begins going farther afield for material and revisiting his past in the process.
In addition to three full-fledged originals, he covers two traditional folk songs, the West African standard "Highlife" (learned in one of his earliest gigs with drummer Babatunde Olatunji) and the Harry Belafonte-associated "All My Trials"; he adapts several themes from Kate Bush's prog pop hit "Wuthering Heights" into "Kate"; and he returns to his legendary appearance on Pharoah Sanders' Tauhid album with a medley of two Sanders themes, "Venus/Upper Egypt." It's fascinatingly eclectic, but the results are undercut to a degree by all the keyboard polish, which tends to rob Sharrock's most furious licks of a certain element of danger (even if it does occasionally bring out his more playful and spiritual sides). In the end, Highlife is something of a transitional album, catching Sharrock in the midst of figuring out where to take his music next, yet that searching quality makes it a compelling listen for fans.
Sonny Sharrock - Highlife (1990) {Enemy EMY 119-2}
Personnel:
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Dave Snider - Keyboards
Lance Carter - Drums
Abe Speller - Drums
Charles Baldwin - Bass
tracklist:
01. No More Tears
02. All My Trials
03. Chumpy
04. Highlife
05. Kate (Variations On A Theme By Kate Bush)
06. Venus / Upper Egypt
07. Your Eyes
08. Giant Steps
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EAC extraction logfile from 15. January 2013, 11:34
Sonny Sharrock / Highlife
Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-S203N Adapter: 0 ID: 2
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy-NEW\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%x" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%v" -T "ALBUM ARTIST=%v" -T "COMMENT=EAC V1.01b1, Secure Mode, Test & Copy, AccurateRip, FL
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.32 | 5:38.55 | 32 | 25436
2 | 5:39.12 | 8:01.10 | 25437 | 61521
3 | 13:40.22 | 5:40.25 | 61522 | 87046
4 | 19:20.47 | 4:14.18 | 87047 | 106114
5 | 23:34.65 | 5:51.15 | 106115 | 132454
6 | 29:26.05 | 8:38.70 | 132455 | 171374
7 | 38:05.00 | 5:48.52 | 171375 | 197526
8 | 43:53.52 | 0:38.23 | 197527 | 200399
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==== Log checksum 695819013516B5E7C211E88981EB252ED947E5154280784F687FAE1D2594E993 ====
Sonny Sharrock - Highlife (1990) {Enemy EMY 119-2}
Sonny Sharrock - Highlife (1990) {Enemy EMY 119-2}
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