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Track Listing
1. Desire Develops An Edge
2. What Is This Dance, Anyway?
3. Two (Still In Half-Light)
4. Early Fall
5. Velasquez
6. Don't Complicate The Life (La Vie)
7. Edge You Always Loved In Me, The
8. Sara Wade
9. Far From Freetown
10. All Us Working Class Boys (For Jack Bruce)
11. Child Song
12. Nocturnal Heart (Coracao Nocturna For John Stubblefield)
13. Meaning A Visa
14. Her Boyfriend Assesses His Value & Pleads His Case
15. Trust Me Yet?
16. Nancy (The Silence Focuses On You...)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Kip Hanrahan (vocals, percussion); Elysee Pyronneau, Ti'Plume Ricardo Franck, Arto Lindsay (vocals, electric guitar); Jack Bruce (vocals, electric bass); Puntilla Orlando Rios (vocals, congas, quinto); Olufemi Claudette Mitchell (vocals, chekere, percussion); Molly Farley (vocals); Teo Macero (alto saxophone); Ricky Ford, John Stubblefield, Ned Rothenberg (tenor saxophone); Jerry Gonzalez (trumpet, congas, clave, percussion); Hannibal Peterson (trumpet); Steve Swallow (piano, electric bass); John Scofield, Jody Harris, Alberto Bengolea (electric guitar); Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Sergio Brandao (electric bass); Tico Harry Sylvain, Ignacio Berroa, Anton Fier (trap drums); Milton Cardona (congas, chekere).
Recorded in New York, New York in 1982-1983. Includes liner notes by Kip Hanrahan.
Kip Hanrahan creates highly cinematic albums; the individual songs themselves are smartly arranged, and in addition, the overall structure of the album itself flows with its own organic logic. DESIRE DEVELOPS AN EDGE was his second release and is also one of his best.
It opens with the title song, an extended instrumental percussion piece and then leaps right into a Caribbean-derived dance song featuring Jack Bruce on vocals and bass. The horn section wails, punctuating the rhythmic festivities with sassy vigor. Composer and leader Hanrahan is a smart collaborator, calling on a wide variety of players and giving them plenty of room to leave their own mark. Highly percussive throughout, the songs are rich with passion and tropical sexuality.
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