€ 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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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. 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. Gonna Lift You Up
02. Let Me Love You
03. Never Find a Better Love
04. Don't Leave Me
05. I Just Wanna Dance with You
06. You're My Sunny Day
07. Get Ready, Get Down
08. Girl I’m up for your lovin’
01. I’ll Do My Best (For You Baby) 5:22
02. This Love’s On Me 4:51
03. One and Only 4:30
04. You Can Always Count On Me 4:15
05. Walk With Me 4:19
06. Alright On The Night 5:04
07. Tonight I Need To Have Your Love 4:08
08. You’ve Got Me Dancin’ 4:50
Merge – Merge
01. Take It To The Top 5:00
02. Changin' 5:05
03. Volcanic Voodoo 4:35
04. What Makes You Wanna Lie To Me 5:25
05. Worry 5:14
06. Show Him The Way To Go 4:38
07. Heavenly 4:30
08. You're My Everything 5:24
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. 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. Freaky (4:16)
02. Sexy Body (3:45)
03. Give It Up (3:20)
04. Hold Tight (3:03)
05. Stand Up (3:28)
06. Shake (3:34)
07. Get Off (3:10)
08. Red Hot Stuff (3:37)
09. When we Love (2:46)
01. Genie (6:02)
02. Main Attraction (5:43)
03. Won't you be with me tonight (4:32)
04. Don't force it (4:53)
05. Minutes Away (3:15)
06. On the shelf (5:14)
07. Dreamer (5:45)
08. Riccochet (4:10)
Bonus Tracks:
09. Dreamer (Shep Pettibone / Long vocal version) (7:10)
10. Riccochet (Ben Liebrand Mix) (5:56)
11. Dreamer (Shep's Dream Version) (6:06)
12. Main Attraction (The finest Remix) (6:37)
13. Dreamer (No. 1 Remix) (6:12)
14. Dreamer (Shep Pettibone / Short vocal version) (3:55)
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
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