Re: 4Hero's 'Les Fleur'

From: Mark Allerton (Mark@warmspot.cix.co.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 18:33:05 CET

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    Yes and no...

    Check out 4Hero's version of Patrice Rushen's "Wishful Thinking",
    or their remix of Nuyorican Soul's cover of "Black Gold of The
    Sun". The Rushen cover is 99.9% identical to the original. The
    first 4 minutes of the "Black Gold" remix sound a _lot_ more like
    the original version than they did Nuyorican's cover. So I don't
    think anyone should be that surprised to hear "Les Fleur" come out
    the way it did. It does have the trademark breakdown in the middle,
    which is pretty nice - but if anything I'd have liked them to strip
    down the chorus. Oh well. I am surprised that it was put out as a
    single.

    The version of "2000 Black" on the album is pretty damn straight
    too - especially when compared to the Pavel Kostiuk version on "The
    Good Good".

    On a related note: did anyone else notice that Dego and Marc Mac
    don't seem to have co-written or co-produced anything on the LP?
    Assuming that Brad Somatik is not another Dego alias, I don't think
    that there's one track on the LP that has both names in the credits.

    ..Mark..

    On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 03:16 AM, Elson Trinidad wrote:

    > I just heard this finally...um, it's not really that much
    > different than the original Minnie Riperton tune. In fact, it's a
    > spitting image of the original.  I was expecting to hear this tune
    > in "the classic 4-hero style" but, I dunno, all it just seems to
    > be showing is that they know how to make it sound like the
    > original.  Whoopee. Any thoughts...?
    >
    >
    >
    > - 30 -
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    > : . elson@westworld.com  :  www.westworld.com/~elson
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    > trinity.org and www.mp3.com/etrinity
    >
    > UNIVERSAL TRUTH #107317: If a band has the word "soul" in their
    > name, chances are they do NOT play soul music.
    >



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