music.wikisort.org - CompositionOne Down is a 1982 album by the New York based no wave music group Material, produced by Material, recorded by indie producer/engineer Martin Bisi in Brooklyn and musician/engineer Robert Musso in Manhattan.[3] The album sees the band reduced to a duo of keyboardist Michael Beinhorn and bassist Bill Laswell, collaborating with different musicians and singers on each track. Whitney Houston made her recording debut as a lead vocalist on this album, for a version of the song "Memories".
1982 studio album by Material
One Down |
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Released | May 19, 1982 (1982-05-19) |
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Recorded | O.A.O Studio, Brooklyn, New York and RPM Sound Studio, New York City |
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Label | Celluloid, Elektra, 60206 |
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Producer | Material |
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Bustin' Out (1981) |
One Down (1982) |
Seven Souls (1989) |
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Source | Rating |
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Allmusic |     [1] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |     [2] |
Song background
"Let Me Have It All" is a cover from Sly and the Family Stone's 1973 album Fresh.
"Memories" featured vocals by Whitney Houston accompanied by Archie Shepp on tenor saxophone. The track marks Houston's first appearance on record as a lead vocalist on an album, prior to her own albums and she would perform it at select dates during her first major tour in 1986, The Greatest Love World Tour. The song was written by Hugh Hopper and originally recorded by The Wilde Flowers with vocals by Robert Wyatt.
A dance mix by John Luongo of "I'm the One"/"Don't Lose Control" was released as a 12" single in 1982 (Celluloid/Elektra, 0-67970). Mixes of "Time Out" was released as a 12" single in 1983 (Elektra, 0-67916).[4]
Track listing
- "Take a Chance" (Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn) – 4:31
- "I'm the One" (Laswell, Beinhorn, R. Bernard Fowler) – 5:25
- "Time Out" (Laswell, Thi-Linh Le, Beinhorn) – 4:52
- "Let Me Have It All" (Sly Stewart) – 5:23
- "Come Down" (Laswell, Beinhorn, Fowler) – 4:43
- "Holding On" (Laswell, Beinhorn, Brian Eno) – 4:40
- "Memories" (Hugh Hopper) (featuring Whitney Houston) – 3:58
- "Don't Lose Control" (Laswell, Beinhorn) – 4:18
CD bonus track
- "Bustin' Out" (Laswell, Beinhorn, Fred Maher) – 8:03
Personnel
- Material
- Michael Beinhorn – Prophet-5, Oberheim OB-Xa, Oberheim DMX sequencer, Roland TR-808 drum machine, Roland VP330 vocoder, tapes, percussion
- Bill Laswell – Music Man Sting Ray bass, Fender Precision bass, effects
- vocalists
- Nona Hendryx – vocals ("Take a Chance", "Let Me Have It All", "Bustin' Out")
- B.J. Nelson – vocals ("Take a Chance", "Let Me Have It All", "Holding On")
- R. Bernard Fowler – vocals ("I'm the One", "Come Down")
- Thi-Linh Le – voice ("Time Out")
- Noris Night – voice ("Let Me Have It All")
- Whitney Houston – vocals ("Memories")
- Jean Karakos – voice ("Don't Lose Control")
- musicians
- Nile Rodgers – guitar ("I'm the One", "Come Down")
- Fred Frith – guitar ("Time Out")
- Nicky Skopelitis – guitar ("Take a Chance", "Holding On")
- Ronnie Drayton – guitar ("Let Me Have It All", "Holding On", "Bustin' Out")
- J.T. Lewis – drums ("Take a Chance", "Time Out", "Holding On")
- Yogi Horton – drums ("Let Me Have It All", "Memories")
- Tony Thompson – drums ("I'm the One", "Come Down", "Don't Lose Control")
- Fred Maher – drums ("Bustin' Out")
- Nicky Marrero – percussion ("Take a Chance", "Time Out", "Holding On")
- Daniel Ponce – bongos ("I'm the One", "Don't Lose Control")
- Oliver Lake – tenor and alto saxophone ("Come Down")
- Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone ("Memories")
- Raymond Jones – Yamaha CP-70B electric grand piano ("Memories")
Production
- Produced by Material
- Recorded at O.A.O Studio (Brooklyn, New York) by Martin Bisi and at RPM Sound Studio (Manhattan, New York) by Robert Musso
Release history
- 1982 – Celluloid / Vogue (Fr.), CEL 541003 (LP)
- 1982 – Elektra (USA), 60206 (LP)
- 1982 – Celluloid, CELCD 5504 (CD)
- 1983 – CBS / Sony (Jp.), 25 AP 2754 (LP)
- 1992 – Metronome / Restless, 7 72654-2 (CD)
- 1992 – Demon / MauMau, MauCD 624 (CD)
- 1992 – Jimco, Jp., JICK 89047 (CD)
- 1997 – Movie Play Gold, MPG 74047 (CD)
- 2005 – Golden Stars, GSS 5406 (CD, Portugal, retitled CD 1)
References
Material |
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- Michael Beinhorn
- Fred Maher
- Cliff Cultreri
- Kramer
- Don Davis
- Bill Bacon
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Contributors | Vocal | |
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Rap |
- Rammellzee
- Jungle Brothers (Afrika Baby Bam and Mike Gee)
- Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin
- Kool Keith
- Flavor Flav
- Killah Priest
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Guitar | |
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Bass | |
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Keyboard | |
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Drums |
- Charles K. Noyes
- J.T. Lewis
- Yogi Horton
- Tony Thompson
- Sly Dunbar
- Ginger Baker
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Percussion |
- Nicky Marrero
- Daniel Ponce
- Aïyb Dieng
- Foday Musa Suso
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Saxophone |
- Byard Lancaster
- Henry Threadgill
- Oliver Lake
- Archie Shepp
- Wayne Shorter
- Horny Horns (Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Pee Wee Ellis)
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Brass |
- Olu Dara (cornet)
- George E. Lewis (trombone)
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String |
- Billy Bang (violin)
- Simon Shaheen (violin)
- L. Shankar (violin)
- Karl Berger (string arrangement)
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Studio albums | |
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Live albums | |
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EPs | |
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Singles | |
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Collaborations | |
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Related |
- Discography
- Massacre
- Deadline
- Curlew
- The Golden Palominos
- Last Exit
- Praxis
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Archie Shepp |
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise. |
Leader |
- Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962)
- The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin, 1963)
- Four for Trane (1964)
- Fire Music (1965)
- On This Night (1965)
- New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane, 1965)
- Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966)
- Mama Too Tight (1966)
- The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967)
- For Losers (1968–69)
- Kwanza (1968–69)
- The Way Ahead (1968)
- Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969)
- Black Gipsy (1969)
- Blasé (1969)
- Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969)
- Pitchin Can (1969–70)
- Poem for Malcolm (1969)
- Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969)
- Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970)
- Coral Rock (1970)
- Doodlin' (1970)
- Things Have Got to Change (1971)
- Attica Blues (1972)
- The Cry of My People (1972)
- A Sea of Faces (1975)
- Bijou (1975)
- Body and Soul (Horo, 1975)
- Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975)
- Mariamar (1975)
- Montreux One (1975)
- Montreux Two (1975)
- There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975)
- Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog, 1976)
- Steam (1976)
- Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan, 1977)
- On Green Dolphin Street (1977)
- Duet (and Dollar Brand, 1978)
- Lady Bird (1978)
- Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1980)
- Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980)
- Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof, 1982)
- Soul Song (1982)
- Down Home New York (1984)
- California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985)
- Little Red Moon (1985)
- Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan, 1987)
- Splashes (1987)
- Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988)
- Body and Soul (and Richard Davis, Enja, 1989)
- Blue Ballads (1995)
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