VANESSA FERNANDEZ: USE ME (180G - 45 RPM)

Performer: Vanessa Fernandez. vocal
Author: Vanessa Fernandez
Label: Groove Note
Number of discs: 2
Support: LP 45 rpm
Genre: Jazz
Year: 2019

Groove Note Records is proud to present Vanessa Fernandez's album Use Me on the high-quality analog format. This audiophile-quality album presents a program of great soul and R&B classics from the seventies and eighties, which were recorded with a strictly unplugged approach with acoustic instruments and very refined arrangements. Fernandez's voice is rendered with simply exceptional dynamics (in which not the slightest compression or technical device is perceived), a superb presence and a spectacular rendering of the details of all the instruments, including the drums and percussion. The resolution is of the highest level, a fact that contributes to making this disc an absolutely unmissable title both from an artistic and technical quality point of view. This limited edition One-Step edition was remastered and cut by the legendary Bernie Grundman from the original 30 inch and a quarter per second analog tapes. This album has the merit of putting the fantastic vocals of Singaporean singer Vanessa Fernandez under the spotlight. The program includes a beautiful anthology of songs by Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Earth Wind & Fire, Bill Withers, Al Green and others. Among the instrumentalists who accompany Fernandez on this album, the great bassist Lee Sklar (Phil Collins, Rita Coolidge, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt and Lyle Lovett), the acoustic guitarist Tim Pierce (Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion) deserve to be mentioned , Roger Waters, Tina Turner and Eric Clapton), electric pianist Jim Cox (Willie Nelson, BB King, Aaron Neville, Ringo Starr and Lyle Lovett), drummer Victor Indrizzo (Macy Grey, Marianne Faithfull, Meatloaf and Emmylou Harris), percussionist Rafael Padillo (Julio Iglesias, Celine Dion, Luciano Pavarotti and Gloria Estefan) and harmonica player Stanley Behrens (Willie Dixon, Canned Heat and Ruth Brown). A great band made up of excellent musicians active in the Los Angeles area, which accompanies the superlative performances of a great singer in dizzying rise.

Vanessa Fernandez, vocals
Tim Pierce, guitar, arrangements
Alex Al, double bass (ex Michael Jackson)

Victor Indrizzo, drums
Jeff Babko, keyboards
Luis Conte, percussion
Charlie Bisharat, violin
Ricky Woodard, tenor and alto sax

Tracklist
Side A:
1. Right On For The Darkness
2. I Want You
3. Human

Side B:
1. Every Time You Go Away
2. Hey Stranger (Album Mix)
3. Angel Dust

Side C:
1. Tripping Out
2. Billie Jean
3. Creep

Side D:
1. I Will Survive!
2. Back To Black
3. Hey Stranger (Alternate Mix)