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1981 Jimmy Cliff: Give the People What They Want?
Modesty and humility the mark of the truly great
1982 Grace Jones Living My Life?
curious question on "Living My Life", the third album about which there was nothing special to remember, a certain routine is finally being installed, compared to the first two, "Warm Leatherette" and "Nightclubbing" which, for once, were much richer in emotions as they were those of the encounter and discovery ...
1982 Joe Cocker Sheffield Steel?
A warm and authentic being, nothing manufactured. And probably thanks to the expertise of Alex Sadkin, engineer co-producer, this album is the sonically most successful of the Compass Point All Stars.
1986 Fela Ransome Kuti Teacher Do Not Teach Me NonSense?
He had brought the village in the studio ... There were so many people that Mick Hucknall (Simply Red) did not even know who was responsible for what when he came by, like all the curious to say hello. Fela did not know me back then, and I wanted to leave him entirely free to make his music as he intended, contenting myself to ensure that the technical follow him and not the other way around. He was grateful to me. Such a hero that even today I have difficulty to realize the opportunity that was mine to just work with him.
1988 Manu Dibango Electric Africa?
Our oldest brother all of us, he is the one who first, after my release of my military service, called me to a meeting, a decisive phone calls over in my decision to make music my profession; it’s him who also who, while speaking about me during an interview, made me aware of the fact that I was ultimately: a painter.
1988 Melissa Etheridge?
A great lady in a superb album which I had the honor of working with, without ever having the chance to meet ... Things of Life.
1988 Julio Iglesias Libra?
An affable and funny person, far from the polished image of the crooner that we have, wearing shorts and t-shirt, and bare feet he came to my studio to talk to me, like a connoisseur, about his passion for Pro -tools a just emerging technology back then, the first digital recorder finally affordable.
Serge Gainsbourg?
Gainsbourg was ... Gainsbourg, nothing surprising. At five, with Alain Chamfort, Lio, and Bamboo, we formed a strange assemblage in this house rented to an actress in Beverly Hills. It was my first trip to Los Angeles. feeling of strangeness, quickly diluted in the serious of the studio atmosphere.
Herbie Hancock?
Again, the genius is recognized by its charisma and hospitality. It remains one of my absolute masters, and I still do not know by what star how our roads eventually intersected.
Stevie Wonder?
He's a legend: I have never met - and even less - worked with him. It is also one of my absolute masters. But, oddly, I never really wanted to meet him (neither he nor any of my heroes indeed). I do not think it's for fear of being disappointed. I simply do not believe that our meetings can really produce anything
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