I Thought It Was You
skel
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Does anyone know the album that contains the live version of 'I Thought It Was You'?Surely it must be Hancock, featuring a Japanese female vocalist (Kimiko Kasai?)Surely not a Kasai live album with the Herbie in the band.....no that's a step too farPlease folks be so kind as to clue me in.....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyiGi-6ZXdQ
not sure I can live with that album cover in my collection though.....
i gots a spare... it's also on the herbie directstep album (alternate version)...
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I've looked at the Butterfly LP on sites before, and quizzed an ebay seller - he said there was no ITIWY version....
If you can confirm ITIWY is on there, pls let me know if it is a live version
PM me with price and condition, let's see if we can sort it out
Many thanks
Funky in a slightly sanitised Japanese way
but Paul Jackson on bass with that upfront 'Black Octopus' sound helps a lot
theres soundclips all over the place
You can't beat Jap jazz, when it hits the right spot there's none better....
Domo arigato gozaimashita
Please stop making references to this as "Jap" jazz. I'm sure you are from some place in Europe and you don't mean any harm, but "Jap" is an offensive racial slur.
I work at a Japanese bank and they love it.....
So chill out!
Didn't some of the guys from Steely Dan have something to do with this?
Fuck I've been looking for a copy of this ever since Aki played it for my at Cosmos.
This has been a big rare groove track since the early 90's.
Not in Palm Springs
same version though.
you defintely need light of the world "london town" to go with it. same producer, same song basically with different lyrics.
(if you need 320s let me know, i just ripped both)
Kimiko rocks ! the version sung by Herbie on Direct Steps sucks....
beside Paul Jackson on that butterfly Lp played SS favourite Alphonse Mouzon
Kimiko rocks ! the version sung by Herbie on Direct Steps sucks....
beside Paul Jackson on that butterfly Lp played SS favourite Alphonse Mouzon
Can't agree!
The Direct Steps LP is a beautiful recording in a fine and understated sleeve, delicate Obi strip, and widely spaced big grooves for a big sound.
As for ITIWY, it's about an hour of vocoder scat jazz funk percussive madness
What's not to like?
Can't agree!
The Direct Steps LP is a beautiful recording in a fine and understated sleeve, delicate Obi strip, and widely spaced big grooves for a big sound.
As for ITIWY, it's about an hour of vocoder scat jazz funk percussive madness
What's not to like?
I just don't like the way Herbie uses the vocoder : that cold Robot-like sound
and the disco-dressing of the rhythm arrangments for the track sung by kimiko suits better the song....
but that's just my 2 cents...
I've got her cover of "Use Me" which was booted over here in the early 90's. It's really good. Not only that, but it haz braekz.
WARNING: I remember "As" includes the Vocoder as well.... I remember "Use me" waws way better...
Bit of a Kimiko fan club going on....
I also have a boot of hers (probably same one), with Butterfly on it;
then on side 2 are 2 Bill Doggett tracks, Honky Tonk Popcorn etc
What a bizarre boot that was, there's zero connection there
Anyone know who did it? the wolfman?
Nah, this was the one with the 11-minute version of "Bump 'n' Hustle Music" on side 2, along with "Little B's Poem" by Dee Dee Bridgewater. I think the other side had the Kimiko tune, Eramus Hall's "Just You and Me", and "For Real" by Flowers.
It may have originated from the London Borough of Brixton, if you know what I mean, and I'm sure you do...
say no more....
that 12'' 'version' of For Real is a bit pants I reckon
seems like it was stapled together on a Mac
must have a listen tonight
she did Tell me a bedtime story too right?
It is indeed pants and the sound on that whole LP was pretty poor although some nice tunes. When I said this to a certain feller he got very shirty indeed. Made my own resolution there and then not to buy from him ever again.
Possible post up? I don't think I know this one.
right, even if credited to Kimiko Kasai alone, Butterfly was more an Hancock project, with him at the twilight of his "funky era" trying to rearrange his best (then recent) material with a disco feel for the japanese market.
However. the result is outstanding, thanks to Kimiko - a real jazz singer !- and the rest of the crew (basically the Hudhunters with Mouzon on drums !)