Pre-Order: Allen Toussaint - Life Love & Faith [180 Gram] (Can) (LP) (New (N))

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Allen Toussaint had it all around him - the voices and spirits of black music, rhythm 'n' blues, funk and soul. He was born in New Orleans and grew up there, the birthplace of jazz. As from 1960, he worked as a record producer and an A&R man at Minit Records, an independent label, which was closely associated with the transformation of the New Orleans Sound. His compositions for fellow musicians landed them in the charts, he frequently participated by performing with them on the piano, and so became a connoisseur and master of all possible sounds. ""Life, Love And Faith"" marks his launch into his solo career, and quite rightly so. In the songs, Toussaint amalgamates all he had mastered with a rocking R&B, funky rhythms and expressive soul to create his highly personal sound. Although it is a soul album through and through, one has the feeling that one is listening to an album from Reprise's stable of singers/songwriters - including such artists as Randy Newman, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat and Joni Mitchell - rather than what usually came out of New Orleans in the early Seventies. And also because ""Life, Love And Faith"" captures an eccentric genius who pursues his own idiosyncratic vision. It is a structured, multi-layered album, which does not show Toussaint in his purest form, but it is his only album that shows just how widely ranged and profound his many talents were. This Speakers Corner reissue LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.

Tracklist:

  1. Side A
  2. Victims of the Darkness
  3. Am I Expecting Too Much
  4. My Baby Is the Real Thing
  5. Goin' Down
  6. She Once Belonged to Me
  7. Out of the City (Into Country Life)
  8. Side B
  9. Soul Sister
  10. Fingers and Toes
  11. I've Got to Convince Myself
  12. On Your Way Down
  13. Gone Too Far
  14. Electricity

UPC: 4260019716118
Label: Speakers Corner
Release Date: 9.4.26
Format: Vinyl

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    Allen Toussaint had it all around him - the voices and spirits of black music, rhythm 'n' blues, funk and soul. He was born in New Orleans and grew up there, the birthplace of jazz. As from 1960, he worked as a record producer and an A&R man at Minit Records, an independent label, which was closely associated with the transformation of the New Orleans Sound. His compositions for fellow musicians landed them in the charts, he frequently participated by performing with them on the piano, and so became a connoisseur and master of all possible sounds. ""Life, Love And Faith"" marks his launch into his solo career, and quite rightly so. In the songs, Toussaint amalgamates all he had mastered with a rocking R&B, funky rhythms and expressive soul to create his highly personal sound. Although it is a soul album through and through, one has the feeling that one is listening to an album from Reprise's stable of singers/songwriters - including such artists as Randy Newman, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat and Joni Mitchell - rather than what usually came out of New Orleans in the early Seventies. And also because ""Life, Love And Faith"" captures an eccentric genius who pursues his own idiosyncratic vision. It is a structured, multi-layered album, which does not show Toussaint in his purest form, but it is his only album that shows just how widely ranged and profound his many talents were. This Speakers Corner reissue LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.

    Tracklist:

    1. Side A
    2. Victims of the Darkness
    3. Am I Expecting Too Much
    4. My Baby Is the Real Thing
    5. Goin' Down
    6. She Once Belonged to Me
    7. Out of the City (Into Country Life)
    8. Side B
    9. Soul Sister
    10. Fingers and Toes
    11. I've Got to Convince Myself
    12. On Your Way Down
    13. Gone Too Far
    14. Electricity

    UPC: 4260019716118
    Label: Speakers Corner
    Release Date: 9.4.26
    Format: Vinyl

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