180g Audiophile Vinyl!
Secrets (1976) is a Jazz-Funk fusion album by acclaimed keyboard player Herbie Hancock. Following up on his previous album Man-Child, the album again features Paul Jackson on bass, and reedist Bennie Maupin continued to provide most of the solos alongside Hancock. Man-Child had seen the addition of electric guitar to Hancock's sound, and Secrets saw the guitar's place in the arrangements rise to crucial importance throughout. The flamboyant rhythm guitar contributions of top Motown session musician Wah Wah Watson are a particularly notable feature of the album.
Where Man-Child was evenly divided between up-tempo and laid-back tracks, Secrets emphasised the more mellow, softly rounded mood. Even the more up-tempo tracks, "Doin' It" and "Cantaloupe Island", are suffused with a relaxed Caribbean influence, and overall the album tends towards restrained, rolling grooves rather than overtly high-energy Funk. Appropriately, Hancock spent much of his time using the mellow tones of the Rhodes piano, and took advantage of the new polyphonic synthesizers to contribute thick pads, foreshadowing ambient music.
Features:
180g Audiophile Vinyl
Import
Musicians:
Herbie Hancock, piano, Rhodes electric piano, Yamaha electric grand piano, arp odyssey, arp string ensemble, Hohner D6 clavinet, Moog micro-moog, oberheim polyphonic synthesizer, echoplex
Bennie Maupin, soprano sax, tenor sax, saxello, lyricon, bass clarinet
Wah Wah Watson, guitar, maestro universal synthesizer system
Ray Parker, guitar
James Levi, drums
Paul Jackson, bass
Kenneth Nash, percussion
Selections:
Side One:
1. Doin It
2. People Music
3. Cantelope Island
Side Two:
1. Spider
2. Gentle Thoughts
3. Swamp Rat
4. Sansho Shima
Secrets (1976) is a Jazz-Funk fusion album by acclaimed keyboard player Herbie Hancock. Following up on his previous album Man-Child, the album again features Paul Jackson on bass, and reedist Bennie Maupin continued to provide most of the solos alongside Hancock. Man-Child had seen the addition of electric guitar to Hancock's sound, and Secrets saw the guitar's place in the arrangements rise to crucial importance throughout. The flamboyant rhythm guitar contributions of top Motown session musician Wah Wah Watson are a particularly notable feature of the album.
Where Man-Child was evenly divided between up-tempo and laid-back tracks, Secrets emphasised the more mellow, softly rounded mood. Even the more up-tempo tracks, "Doin' It" and "Cantaloupe Island", are suffused with a relaxed Caribbean influence, and overall the album tends towards restrained, rolling grooves rather than overtly high-energy Funk. Appropriately, Hancock spent much of his time using the mellow tones of the Rhodes piano, and took advantage of the new polyphonic synthesizers to contribute thick pads, foreshadowing ambient music.
Features:
180g Audiophile Vinyl
Import
Musicians:
Herbie Hancock, piano, Rhodes electric piano, Yamaha electric grand piano, arp odyssey, arp string ensemble, Hohner D6 clavinet, Moog micro-moog, oberheim polyphonic synthesizer, echoplex
Bennie Maupin, soprano sax, tenor sax, saxello, lyricon, bass clarinet
Wah Wah Watson, guitar, maestro universal synthesizer system
Ray Parker, guitar
James Levi, drums
Paul Jackson, bass
Kenneth Nash, percussion
Selections:
Side One:
1. Doin It
2. People Music
3. Cantelope Island
Side Two:
1. Spider
2. Gentle Thoughts
3. Swamp Rat
4. Sansho Shima
