€ 16.90
€ 16.90
Phyrework – Phyrework
01. Put Your Hands Up 3’23
02. Do You Feel The Same 3’54
03. Comin’ For Your Love 3’33
04. More than a Dream 4’28
05. Fly Away 3’20
06. My Funk 4’16
07. Make It Last 3’32
08. Mystic Mariner 5’00
09. Dance With Me 6’11
Phyrework – Phyrework
Phyrework is great lost soul/funk album from the late seventies, with a smooth sound that sounds a bit like a Wayne Henderson production, but which has a lot more soul than a lot of his other work from that time. Phyrework was an obscure, little-known soul/funk outfit that recorded for Mercury in 1978. It’s safe to say that 99 percent of the world’s R&B fans have never heard of Phyrework.
Mercury/PolyGram didn’t give this LP a very aggressive promotional push, and as a result, most R&B fans at the time didn’t even know that it existed. Produced by Con-Funk-Shun guitarist Michael Cooper, Phyrework is generally competent and didn’t deserve to be ignored. Although Con-Funk-Shun was big at the time, Phyrework received hardly any attention.
The record contains a few examples of tough, hard, Bar-Kays-like funk, including “Put Your Hands Up” and “My Funk”. But most of the material favors a much smoother, lighter style of soul-pop. Think of the Average White Band performing “Soul Searching” or George Benson singing “Give Me the Night”, and you will have an idea what type of sound Phyrework is going for on tunes like “Fly Away,” “Make It Last,” and “Dance With Me.”
Phyrework takes a sharp left turn on the totally unexpected “Mystic Mariner”, a jazz-fusion instrumental. But make no mistake: this is an R&B release first and foremost. When Phyrework didn’t sell, Mercury dropped the seven-member band, which never recorded a second album. The members of Phyrework included lead singer Clarence Pitts, guitarist Willie Smith, bassist Gerald Calhoun, keyboardist Frank Hames, trumpeter Jim Foster, saxophonist Bill Eden, and drummer John Bryant. It’s too bad the album did not get the attention it deserved.
Perhaps now after more than 30 years this reissue of PTG Records finally gives Phyrework the attention from soul/funk fans worldwide which it deserves.
01. Put Your Hands Up 3’23
02. Do You Feel The Same 3’54
03. Comin’ For Your Love 3’33
04. More than a Dream 4’28
05. Fly Away 3’20
06. My Funk 4’16
07. Make It Last 3’32
08. Mystic Mariner 5’00
09. Dance With Me 6’11
Weight | 0.110 kg |
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Howard Johnson – Keepin' Love New
01. Keepin' Love New
02. So Glad You're My Lady
03. Say You Wanna
04. Forever Falling In Love
05. So Fine
06. Take Me Through The Night
07. This is Heaven
08. Jam Song
Starpoint – All Night Long
01. Bring your sweet lovin' back(5:03)
02. Get your body up (5:37)
03. All night long (6:07)
04. Show me (4:39)
05. I like it (5:35)
06. I can give you love (5:44)
07. Miracle love (4:37)
08. It's you (5:43)
01. We should be lovers (5:19)
02. I've got to be with you (4:33)
03. Just like in the movies (3:03)
04. I've got to love you again (4:39)
05. I never give up on love (4:39)
06. Love came today (3:13)
07. We belong in love (4:03)
08. Last night made my day (4:23)
01. Let it whip (4:41)
02. Gamble with my love (3:59)
03. I’ll keep on loving you (3:36)
04. Just can’t wait ‘till the night (3:37)
05. Shake what you got (3:39)
06. Keep it live (on the K.I.L) (4:55)
07. Just believe in love (4:57)
08. Can we dance (4:40)
09. Let me love you until (3:55)
Bonustrack:
10. Let it whip (12 inch version) (6:09)
01. Can You Feel The Groove Tonight (4:13)
02. Indiscreet Sweet (3:55)
03. Baby, I'm Hooked (Right Into Your Love) (4:09)
04. Thinking About You, Baby (4:27) 05. Don't Let Your Love Grow Cold (3:52)
06. Lovin' Fever (4:09)
07. Hard Lovin' (4:56)
08. If I'm Your Lover (4:01)
01. She's the master (of the game) (4:53)
02. Love is what I'm after (5:53)
03. Stay with me tonight (5:54)
04. Hold on to my love (3:38)
05. Baby's got another (4:06)
06. This is the moment (6:31)
07. Don't go walking out that door (6:31)
08. How I miss you (3:39)
01. Shake it up (5:05)
02. Invitation to love (5:01)
03. Magnetized (4:00)
04. Hello Girl (4:24)
05. Skate Lovers (4:20)
06. Carry on (4:24)
07. Do it again (4:57)
08. Sooner or later (3:42)
09. Beyond the horizon(4:32)
Bonustrack:
10. Invitation to love (Single version) (3:28)
01. Get what you want (5:04)
02. Hot Flashes (4:50)
03. Love look good on you (4:05)
04. Crazy me (4:00)
05. Tighten it up (4:04)
06. A friend ain't a friend (3:50)
07. Expose yourself (5:05)
08. La Bimini (5:02)
Starpoint – Keep On It
01. I just want to be your lover (5:39)
02. For you (5:25)
03. Interlude (0:28)
04. Keep on it (6:35)
05. I want you closer (5:26)
06. Baby let me do it (5:11)
07. We're into love (4:33)
08. Starpoint's here tonight (6:12)
01. The Feeling 3:24
02. Just As You Are 4:28
03. This Time 3:54
04. Don't Leave Me Now, Stay With Me 5:39
05. Looking Glass 3:35
06. Suite Chocolate
a. Mounds (Instrumental) 2:00
b. Spread Of The Future 4:40
c. The Party 0:29
d. A Chocolate Jam 4:40
e. “C” Of Chocolate 4:29
T-Connection – Everything Is Cool
01. Groove City 5:20
02. Spend The Night With Me 4:57
03. Spinnin' 4:37
04. Paradise 5:22
05. Everything Is Cool 4:27
06. Give Me Your Love 4:50
07. Heaven In Your Eyes 5:36
08. We've Got A Good Thing 4:14
T-Connection – Take It To The Limit
01. Take It To The Limit 4:31
02. Right Place, Wrong Time 4:35
03. You Can Feel The Groove 4:55
04. In Another Life 5:07
05. Anything goes 5:12
06. Travellin’ Man 4:08
07. Burnin’ With Desire 5:30
08. You found someone new 3:15