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Kerri Chandler
A Basement, A Red Light & A Feelin' Vol 2
(Madhouse)
There are a few producer/remixer in the house genre that, once they have developed their own style, stick to it...namely Blaze and Kerri Chandler spring to mind. Even with the addition of afro and latin house elements to his sound you can usually recognize a Kerri Chandler tune immediately. This doesn't mean there's no development and every track may sound alike.
With the second part of A Basement, A Red Light & A Feelin' we get 11 songs (if you have purchased the CD there's even a second CD including the same tracks mixed live by Kerri) with the usual suspects of guest singer like Anthony Flanagan with Your Embrace, Arnold Jarvis (who sang the wonderful Inspiration some years ago) with Music Is My Friend or Christopher 'Gate-Ah' McCray with Even Though.
There are also contributions by Roy Ayers, who seems to appear on nearly everybody's album right now (think of Erykah Badu, Sandra St. Victor, MAW or Leena Conquest's The Breeze) and here adds his magic to Vibrations, or Jerome Sydenham, who is featured on Powder (already released as a 12" on Madhouse some time ago).
But the good things don't stop there, there's Love To The World with Karlon Brooks Sr. and Jr. on vocals, Isis with Hanging On and Jennifer Morrison with Don't Hide Your Love from Me...all very good vocal house songs with the typical Kerri Chandler trademark.
And for the track lovers there are also Fingerprintz with Feel It, Grampa's Sound Of Music which features some vocals from Kerri's grandfather and the afro-influenced Central Africa.
All in all one of the best house records in the last years and not to be missed if you like your house soulful with great singers.
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