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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PRODUCTION: Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner...
Never a band per se, Steely Dan was actually a constellation of crack musicians that revolved around the core of Walter Becker, who played guitar and bass, and Donald Fagen, whose keyboards and reedy, world-weary vocals helped give Steely Dan its inimitable sound. The duo reached a stylistic apotheosis with the 1977 album Aja, a seamless amalgam of rock and jazz idioms that spawned the single Peg. Three years later, Becker and Fagen joined forces one last time for Gaucho, before, in Fagen's words, reaching "a dead...
...parting was amicable: Becker went off to produce a series of jazz records and Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album; Fagen released 1982's The Nightfly, a consummately crafted solo effort that echoed with the bebop percolations of his East Coast adolescence. Then came an 11-year hiatus, which Fagen attributes to a serious bout of writer's block. "I was kind of depressed at the time," he explains. "And it took me a while to figure out what I wanted...
Kamakiriad is worth the wait. Produced by Becker, who also pitches in on bass and solo guitar, the album picks up where Gaucho and The Nightfly left off and goes one step further, meshing Fagen's urbanely elliptic lyrics with the sonic sass and snap of Steely Dan. The faithful will be glad to know that Becker and Fagen are already writing songs together for a new album, and plans are under way for a Steely Dan tour this summer. Meanwhile, Kamakiriad continues the Steely Dan legacy while deftly sidestepping the quicksand of nostalgia...
PRODUCTION: Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner...