Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sing We Noel: Christmas Music from England & Early America (The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen director, Nonesuch). Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour Noel; Senate a Six (The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen director, Desmar). The album of folk-inspired Christmas music, a welcome change from today's homogenized carols, ranges from a 12th century Latin tune, Ad cantus leticie, to a rousing Gloucestershire Wassail from modern Britain. Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Mass, based on French Christmas carols, is a graceful work, and the voices of The Boston Camerata are perfectly balanced...
ONCE, CHAKA KHAN sang lead for a band called Rufus. Now, winding through an adventurous debut solo album, she continues to display her special technique of fusing her voice with loud instruments, but this time there is something solid and infinitely dynamic happening...
...Every Woman," a livid example of her pulsating style, is a vibrant track complete with a voice soaring for an almost flawless sound. Almost. The music here is for dancing, not for understanding the muffled lyrics. It's not the album's best, but it's good...
...SOME ARTISTS, the need for such aid on a solo album would be considered poor. But it's all right here; Khan is not overshadowed. The album's vocals, arrangements, instruments, and lyrics all unite towards one aim--to give insight into the feelings and attitude of an artist who likes to sing...
...album itself is not a string of musical commentaries, nor is it dedicated to selling a million-plus copies. "A Woman In a Man's World" and "I Was Made To Love Him" are not titles you would expect to find on albums designed to keep up with current opinions on relations between sexes. But this is simply a Chaka Khan-oriented album, with room for anyone else who agrees with her. And the agreement is very important. For Khan's last album with Rufus, Streetplayer, the group operated under one management and Khan had another. The split widened...