DJ Harrison
Shades of Yesterday
AllMusic 80点相当
出だしから、なんか聞いたことあるなぁ
といううろ覚えのtracが結構あり、
調べるとカヴァー楽曲集だった。
https://www.allmusic.com/album/shades-of-yesterday-mw0004167748
Butcher Brown's DJ Harrison is so open about his inspirations that each one of his varied projects has come across as a celebration of Black music with strong attestation to his place in the lineage. Overt and hidden references are threaded throughout his catalog, from titles like "Erykah's Gun" to his Street Corner Music effort Slyish, a wildly creative tribute to early-'70s Sly & the Family Stone. For his third Stones Throw album, the Virginian turns in a funky and unvarnished all-covers set on which he does almost all of the instrumentation. Coming off extensive work on Kurt Elling's Grammy-nominated albums SuperBlue and SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree, and Butcher Brown's own Solar Music, Harrison here crafts 11 interpretations that brim with joy. The set is neatly bookended by nods to outsider studio boffins. He begins by applying some grease to Gary Wilson's scuttling "You Were Too Good to Be True" (1977) and concludes with Shuggie Otis' puttering "Pling!" (1973), adding some dreamy vocalizations that evoke Deodato's "Univac Loves You." A couple mid-'70s fusion classics are handled with élan.