V.A. / OUR LIVES ARE SHAPED BY WHAT WE LOVE: MOTOWN'S MOWEST STORY 1971-1973 モーウェストの全貌がついに明らかに
V.A. / モータウンズ・モーウエスト・ストーリー 1971-1973 (MAGNUM CAT / MC0046)
V.A. / OUR LIVES ARE SHAPED BY WHAT WE LOVE: MOTOWN'S MOWEST STORY 1971-1973 (LIGHT IN THE ATTIC / LITA065CD)
V.A. / OUR LIVES ARE SHAPED BY WHAT WE LOVE: MOTOWN'S MOWEST STORY 1971-1973 (LIGHT IN THE ATTIC / LITA065LP)
40年の時を経て、ようやくフォーカスされることとなった“モーウエスト”！本家モータウンでもお馴染みの名シンガー〜シングル・オンリーのマニアックなシンガーまで、怒涛のアンソロジー!! オリジナル・マスターテープからのリマスター音源による至極のレーベル・コンピレーション！
60年代にデトロイトから数々の伝説を作り出したモータウンの存在は、音楽ファンであれば知らない人はいないだろう。しかし70年代のモータウンとは？ソウル・ファン以外では、なかなかどのようなものか答えられる人は少ないであろう。事実、デトロイトから、ロスアンゼルスに拠点を移動した時期、未だ多くが謎に包まれている。そんな中、モータウンがロスアンゼルス、すなわちウエスト・コーストで新しい試みをし、その時期に生まれたレーベル、それこそが、本作のアンソロジーであり、今回ようやく、40年の時を経てフォーカスされることとなった“モーウエスト”である。
本家モータウンでもお馴染みのG.C.キャメロン、コモドアーズから、当時スティーヴィーの愛妻であったシリータ、フリー・ソウルで人気の高いオデッセイ、またUKのノーザン・ソウルでプレイされるフランキー・ヴァリ等のツボを押さえたトラックを始めに、アルバム・リリースのなかった、NU PAGEや、モータウン初の日系シンガー、スージー・イケダ等のレア音源まで収録!! オリジナル・マスターテープからのリマスター音源になります。貴重写真を含む、ブックレットも素晴らしい。イイ仕事っぷりです、米LIGHT IN THE ATTIC！
by 営業部 Ｈ氏
TRACK LIST
1. Frankie Valli & Four Seasons - You're A Song (That I Can't Sing)
2. Odyssey - Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love
3. Sisters Love - Give Me Your Love
4. G.C. Cameron - Act Like A Shotgun
5. Syreeta - I Love Every Little Thing About You
6. Syreeta - Black Maybe
7. Frankie Valli & Four Seasons - Sun Country
8. Odyssey - Battened Ships
9. Suzee Ikeda - I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You
10. The Commodores - Don't You Be Worried
11. Sisters Love - You've Got To Make Your Choice
12. Odyssey - Broken Road
13. Nu Page - A Heart Is A House
14. Lodi - I Hope I See It In My Lifetime
15. Frankie Valli & Four Seasons - The Night
16. Thelma Houston - I Ain't Going Nowhere
祝！初のレーベル・コンピレーション度 ☆☆☆☆☆ | 未だ知られざるその全貌度 ☆☆☆☆☆ | デトロイト・ミーツ・ウェスト・コースト度 ☆☆☆☆☆ | 丁寧な仕事はいかにも米LIGHT IN THE ATTIC度 ☆☆☆☆☆
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* First ever Mowest anthology
* Extensive liner notes and photos
* Lovingly re-mastered from the original tapes
* Double LP housed in an old school gatefold tip-on jacket.
You know the old saying, “Go west, young man?” Well, it's far from cliche. Over the years, some have hit the road in search of Hollywood's glitz and glamour, others, simply for warmer climes, but in the early 1970's, Detroit-native and Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. brought his musical family to the left coast, one piece at a time. He began by launching the Mowest subsidiary in 1971, a new L.A.-based label dedicated to coastal grooves and an eye towards the top of the charts. In 2011, Light In The Attic Records is completely honored to present the first ever compilation of this now legendary label: Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown's Mowest Story (1971-1973) (LITA 065), an adult portion of sweet soul, heavyweight funk, and even a dose of potent West Coast hippy rock.
Regardless of talent, quality, and financial backing, Mowest faced an uphill battle. With the majority of Motown's focus on the already established names of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, and their latest chart dynamos, The Jackson 5, there wasn't as much attention being given to the diverse Mowest roster. Acts like Syreeta, Sisters Love, and G.C. Cameron seemed to get lost in the shuffle. Though the label released over forty singles and close to a dozen albums from up and comers like Odyssey to established veterans Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, the expected hits never materialized and the imprint quietly folded in 1973. While Mowest artists The Commodores, Thelma Houston, and the aforementioned Cameron continued on with Motown proper, the sub label's catalogue quickly gathered dust in the cut-out bins of record stores throughout the States.
Gone but not completely forgotten, the best of Mowest gently reverberated around the world in the way that great yet under-appreciated music usually does, from word-of-mouth praise and burning hearts like UK Northern Soul devotees adopting Frankie Valli's “The Night” as a dance floor anthem, Japanese rare groove DJs spinning Odyssey's “Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love” at Tokyo free soul events, and NYC cut-and-paste king Danny Krivit's notorious Sisters Love “Give Me Your Love” edit. Forty years later, it's time for the rest of the world to rediscover what a treasure trove of soulful sounds Mowest left behind. Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love is a lovingly prepared 16-track CD, 2 LP set with epic re-mastering from the original master tapes by engineer Dave Cooley (Blue Note, Warp, Stones Throw, Now Again), extensive liner notes from project curator Kevin “Sipreano” Howes (Jamaica-Toronto series, Doug Randle, Rodriguez, Monks), and Strath Shepard's (Pacific Standard) impeccable graphic design. This is a slice of Motown like you've never heard or seen before, so let's head to the beach, set up shop, and max out to the rhythm. Looking at the Pacific, it appears that Mowest's surf is just about to break.