Shakatak - Nightbirds '2008

Tracks list

Tracklist

01 - Night Birds
02 - Streetwalkin'
03 - Rio Nights
04 - Fly The Wind
05 - Easier Said Than Done
06 - Bitch To The Boys
07 - Light On My Life
08 - Takin' Off
09 - Go For It (bonus track)

personnel : 

Bill Sharpe – Bösendorfer grand piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano;
Oberheim OB-X synthesizer, ARP Odyssey and Prophet-10 synthesisers
Nigel Wright – Fender Rhodes electric piano, Oberheim OB-X & Prophet-10
synthesisers, trombone, brass arrangements
Keith Winter – Yamaha SG2000 & Gibson ES-345 electric guitars, Ovation
acoustic guitar; Mesa Boogie amplification and Custom Pedal Board
George Anderson – Music Man StingRay and G&L 2000E electric basses
Roger Odell – Sonor drums, Avedis Zildjian cymbals
Jill Saward – vocals
Jackie Rawe – vocals (also lead vocal on "Streetwalkin'")

Additional personnel:

Vocals by Lorna Bannon; lead vocal on "Light on My Life"
Percussion, Portuguese translation and vocal on "Rio Nights" by Simon Morton
Trumpet by Stuart Brooks
Saxophone solos on "Streetwalkin'" and "Light on My Life" by Dick Morrissey
(courtesy of Beggars Banquet)

Shakatak was an underground instrumental dominated jazz-funk band at a time when
the genre hadn't really hit the mainstream, mainly showcasing the keyboard
skills of Bill Sharpe and the jazz guitar of Keith Winter. Taking a chance on a
female vocalist, Jill Saward, they released their second album, Nightbirds,
which featured a radio-friendly vocal over the top of their jazz meanderings,
and suddenly the pop market opened up for them with the hit single "Easier Said
Than Done" with its mainly piano based tinkling and a dance beat, and Saward's
vocal on the chorus. They followed this with an even bigger hit, "Night Birds"
which became the title track of the second album, still with the trademark piano
and jazz bassline. Taking a break from the danceable pop/jazz was the track "Rio
Nights," which slowed the pace down, perfectly reminiscent of a balmy night out
in the Caribbean or Latin America. One could almost feel the warm breeze as the
George Benson style guitar played. The first track, "Taking Off," was an
instrumental with some scat singing at the end, and "Light of My Life" would
predate the soulful singing of Anita Baker and Mica Paris by half a decade, but
Nightbirds would prove to be the high point for Shakatak who never troubled the
Top Ten again.~Sharon Mawer 

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