The Immigrants

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共8首歌曲

艺人: Joe Zawinul
语种: 英语
厂牌: Columbia Records
发行时间: 1988年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by Richard S. Ginell

Although Zawinul tried touring alone in the immediate wake of the breakup of Weather Report, he soon returned to a group format, first with Weather Update in 1986 and a couple of years later with the raffishly named Zawinul Syndicate. The multi-national Syndicate basically expands the Weather Report format into a sextet, with a rock guitar (Scott Henderson) replacing the sax, an extra percussionist on board to join WR's Alex Acuna, and more vocal support then ever -- and if a Wayne Shorter-like melody line was needed, Zawinul would play it himself on his new Korg Pepe wind synthesizer. If anything, The Immigrants burrows even further into the world-music bloodstream than WR ever did, with vocals in Spanish and wordless syllables on top of Zawinul's one-chord Third World grooves. There is also a heavier pop emphasis (again nothing new for Zawinul), including a recomposition of &Mercy Mercy Mercy& called &No Mercy for Me,& now an assertive paean to self-reliance that is soulfully sung by the Perri sisters. Some of the tunes and grooves fall short of Zawinul's irresistible best, but &King Hip& swaggers at a high level and &From Venice to Vienna& -- another of Zawinul's nostalgic memoirs of Europe -- lingers hauntingly at the album's close.