Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire
Posté : 27 mai 2011 10:31
Édition vinyle
Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire (Sundazed Music LP 5313, 2009)
Édition CD
Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire (Light In The Attic LITA 047, 2009)
Titres
A1 Is This Love Or Desire
A2 It's So Good
A3 Whorey Angel
A4 Crashin' From Passion
A5 When Romance Says Goodbye
B1 Bottom Of The Barrel
B2 Stars Starve, You Know
B3 Let's Get Personal
B4 Bar Hoppin'
B5 For My Man
Cet album, enregistré en 1976, est resté plus de trente ans dans les caves. Il a été réédité en 2009 par le label Light In The Attic, avec un livret copieux.
Extraits des liner notes:
"Originally entitled Crashin' From Passion, Is It Love Or Desire was recorded and completed in Bogalusa, Louisiana during the summer of 1976 before promptly vanishing into a hole for the next 33 years. Even for an artist as enigmatic as Betty Davis, Is It Love Or Desire has been the ultimate mystery - no singles, no promos, not even so much as a bootleg. It’s as if the album never existed; a cruel fate to bestow on what was universally considered as Betty’s crowning achievement by those who worked on it.
Fate is fickle though. For years, people knew of the album’s existence; a one-of-a-kind acetate test pressing even quietly circulated in private hands. Yet all this time, the original master tapes sat forgotten - not lost - in vaults in New York and Louisiana. After the success of the Betty Davis and They Say I’m Different reissues in 2007, momentum gathered to finally give Is It Love or Desire? a proper release that’s been three decades in the making."
La sortie de l'album aurait été bloquée car le studio n'aurait pas été payé pour les sessions, et le propriétaire aurait refusé de donner les bandes à Chris Blackwell du label Island.
Le personnel est le même que sur Nasty Gal. Il s'agit du groupe The Funk House.
Voici une interview de Fred Mills, le claviériste (et accessoirement chanteur)
http://lightintheattic.net/news/?p=849
L'album est excellent, puissant, mais à mon sens moins explosif que les précédents. Le mix y est peut-être pour quelque chose...
Extraits:
Is It Love Or Desire
Stars Starve You Know
Let's Get Personal
Un extrait des paroles qui résume le disque et la carrière de BEtty:
> « Take off that disco and put on some good music »
Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire (Sundazed Music LP 5313, 2009)
Édition CD
Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire (Light In The Attic LITA 047, 2009)
Titres
A1 Is This Love Or Desire
A2 It's So Good
A3 Whorey Angel
A4 Crashin' From Passion
A5 When Romance Says Goodbye
B1 Bottom Of The Barrel
B2 Stars Starve, You Know
B3 Let's Get Personal
B4 Bar Hoppin'
B5 For My Man
Cet album, enregistré en 1976, est resté plus de trente ans dans les caves. Il a été réédité en 2009 par le label Light In The Attic, avec un livret copieux.
Extraits des liner notes:
"Originally entitled Crashin' From Passion, Is It Love Or Desire was recorded and completed in Bogalusa, Louisiana during the summer of 1976 before promptly vanishing into a hole for the next 33 years. Even for an artist as enigmatic as Betty Davis, Is It Love Or Desire has been the ultimate mystery - no singles, no promos, not even so much as a bootleg. It’s as if the album never existed; a cruel fate to bestow on what was universally considered as Betty’s crowning achievement by those who worked on it.
Fate is fickle though. For years, people knew of the album’s existence; a one-of-a-kind acetate test pressing even quietly circulated in private hands. Yet all this time, the original master tapes sat forgotten - not lost - in vaults in New York and Louisiana. After the success of the Betty Davis and They Say I’m Different reissues in 2007, momentum gathered to finally give Is It Love or Desire? a proper release that’s been three decades in the making."
La sortie de l'album aurait été bloquée car le studio n'aurait pas été payé pour les sessions, et le propriétaire aurait refusé de donner les bandes à Chris Blackwell du label Island.
Le personnel est le même que sur Nasty Gal. Il s'agit du groupe The Funk House.
Voici une interview de Fred Mills, le claviériste (et accessoirement chanteur)
http://lightintheattic.net/news/?p=849
L'album est excellent, puissant, mais à mon sens moins explosif que les précédents. Le mix y est peut-être pour quelque chose...
Extraits:
Is It Love Or Desire
Stars Starve You Know
Let's Get Personal
Un extrait des paroles qui résume le disque et la carrière de BEtty:
> « Take off that disco and put on some good music »