Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (1969/2003)
Жанр: R&B, Funk, Memphis Soul, Soul
Носитель: SACD
Год издания: 1969/2003
Издатель: Mobile Fidelity
Номер по каталогу: UDSACD 2005
Аудиокодек: DSD64 2.0
Тип рипа: image (iso)
Продолжительность: 00:45:24
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да
Образ снят с помощью: Sony PlayStation 3 и утилиты sacd-ripper version 0.21
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Треклист:
01.Walk On By 12:04
02.Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic 09:39
03.One Woman 05:10
04.By The Time I Get To Phoenix 18:43
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Hot Buttered Soul
Hot Buttered Soul was Isaac Hayes’ second studio album. Released in 1969, it is recognized as a landmark in soul music.
The album almost never came to be. Hayes’ solo debut, Presenting Isaac Hayes, had been a poor seller for Stax Records, and Hayes was about to return to his behind-the-scenes role as a producer and songwriter at the venerable soul label when it suddenly lost its complete back catalog after splitting with Atlantic Records in May 1968. Stax executive Al Bell decided to release a new, almost instant, back catalog of 27 albums and 30 singles at once, ordered all of Stax’s artists to record new material, and encouraged some of Stax’s prominent creative staff, including Hayes and Steve Cropper, to record solo albums.
Burned by the retail flop of Presenting Isaac Hayes, Hayes told Bell that he would not cut a follow-up unless he was granted complete creative control. Since Bell had encouraged Hayes to record Presenting… in the first place, he readily agreed.
The album begins with a cover of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David classic, “Walk On By.” Second was “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic”, an uptempo funk song with wah-wah guitar and rolling pianos. “One Woman”, at just over five minutes the shortest track on the album, focuses on the pangs of infidelity. An extended reinterpretation of Jimmy Webb’s country music composition “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” closes the album. After an eight-minute spoken introduction, the song slowly builds to a climax of horns, strings, organs and vocals. (On most commonly heard versions of this song, there is an edit before the lyric “when he reached the age of maturity..” during the spoken intro – early vinyl pressings of the album do not feature this edit, and reveal a brief section that includes a technical error, where the sustained organ note briefly drops out.)
The album was notable for its use of innovative Bell/Hayes production and Terry Manning engineering techniques, and has deeply influenced a great deal of subsequent soul, hip hop and Motown music. Both “Walk on By” and “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic” have been sampled extensively, the former showing up on tracks by the likes of Compton’s Most Wanted, 3rd Bass, Wu-Tang Clan and Hooverphonic, while the latter song was sampled by Public Enemy for “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos”. “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic” also appears on the soundtrack to the film Zodiac, while “Walk On By” appears along with Hayes’ version of “The Look Of Love” on the soundtrack to the film Dead Presidents.
Much of the final production was done as part of the package of products brought to Detroit by producer Don Davis to expedite the production process. The project strings and horns were recorded at United Sound Studios by engineer Ed Wolfrum with vocals and final mix at Terra-Shirma by engineer Russ Terrana. The pre-delay reverberation technique, recorded in part by Manning on the tracking session, had been used at Artie Fields productions in Detroit in late 1950s, and at Columbia Records; it was also used by Wolfrum and others for numerous productions and commercials previous and after the release of this project including the Marvin Gaye What’s Going On project, with orchestration also recorded at United. Russ Terrana went on to the engineering staff of Motown Records and was responsible recording and mixing of many hits on that label.
Audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissued Hot Buttered Soul in SACD format in 2003.
All Music Review
Released at the tail end of the ’60s, Hot Buttered Soul set the precedent for how soul would evolve in the early ’70s, simultaneously establishing Isaac Hayes and the Bar-Kays as major forces within black music. Though not quite as definitive as Black Moses or as well-known as Shaft, Hot Buttered Soul remains an undeniably seminal record; it stretched its songs far beyond the traditional three-to-four-minute industry norm, featured long instrumental stretches where the Bar-Kays stole the spotlight, and it introduced a new, iconic persona for soul with Hayes’ tough yet sensual image. With the release of this album, Motown suddenly seemed manufactured and James Brown a bit too theatrical. Surprising many, the album features only four songs. The first, “Walk on By,” is an epic 12-minute moment of true perfection, its trademark string-laden intro just dripping with syrupy sentiment, and the thumping mid-tempo drum beat and accompanying bassline instilling a complementary sense of nasty funk to the song; if that isn’t enough to make it an amazing song, Hayes’ almost painful performance brings yet more feeling to the song, with the guitar’s heavy vibrato and the female background singers taking the song to even further heights. The following three songs aren’t quite as stunning but are still no doubt impressive: “Hyperbolicsyllabicsequedalymistic” trades in sappy sentiment for straight-ahead funk, highlighted by a stomping piano halfway through the song; “One Woman” is the least epic moment, clocking in at only five minutes, but stands as a straightforward, well-executed love ballad; and finally, there’s the infamous 18-minute “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and its lengthy monologue which slowly eases you toward the climactic, almost-orchestral finale, a beautiful way to end one of soul’s timeless, landmark albums, the album that transformed Hayes into a lifelong icon.
Musicians:
Isaac Hayes - vocals, keyboards
With "The Bar-Kays" (rhythm section):
Ben Cauley - trumpet
James Alexander - bass
Harvey Henderson - saxophone
Michael Toles - guitar
Ronnie Gorden - organ
Willie Hall - drums
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