1.Love Makes The World (C.King/D.Schommer/S.Hollander)
2.You Can Do Anything (C.King/C.Bayer Sager/Babyface)
3.The Reason (C.King/M.Hudson/G.Wells)
4.I Wasn't Gonna Fall In Love (C.King/C.Bayer Sager)
5.I Don't Know ((C.King/G.Burr/P.Brady/M.Hudson)
6.Oh No Not My Baby (G.Goffin/C.King)
7.It Could Have Been Anyone (C.King/C.Bayer Sager/D.Foster)
8.Monday Without You (C.King/P.Brady/M.Hudson)
9.Uncommon Love (C.King/R.Hyman/R.Wayland)
10.You Will find Me There (C.King)
11.Safe Again (C.King)
12.This Time (C.King)
MI OPINION
Después de varios años sin sacar un álbum, sale a la luz el espléndido Love Makes The World. En él hay varias composicones co escritas con gente con la que había estado componiendo en estos últimos años, como Carole Bayer Sager o Paul Brady. En el disco colaboran muchos artistas muy diferentes, desde el mismo Paul Brady, a Celine Dion, pasando por Babyface, Steven Tyler o K.D.Lang, Producido por Carole King en colaboración con el famoso Humberto Gatica, el disco es tildado por algunos de los más críticos de demasiado elaborado. Sin embargo las críticas en general fueron muy positivas y teniendo en cuenta que es lanzado por un sello independiente (su propio sello "Rockingale"), vendió muy bien. De hecho estuvo en el Top 20 del Top Internet. Destacan "Safe Again" y varios temas, entre los cuales se encuentran. el dúo con Kd Lang en "Uncommon Love" o el dúo con Babyface en "You Can Do Anything".También hace un remake del tema "Oh No Not My Baby" compuesto por ella y Gerry Goffin en los sesenta, y que ya había grabado en su álbum Pearls.
Carole King: Piano, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Vocal Arrangement, String Arrangement
Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds: Keyboards, Backing Vocals, Vocal Arrangement, Guitar, Drums, Programming,
David Foster: Piano, Keyboards,
Randy Waldman: Keyboards, Programming
Paul Brady: Piano, Electric Piano, Backing Vocals, Vocal Arrangement
C.J. Vanston: Piano, Programming, Track Arrangement
Rudy Guess: Guitar, Electric Guitar
Steve Hamilton: Acoustic & Electric Guitar
Dean Parks: Acoustic Guitar & Electric Guitar
Gary Burr: Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals, Vocal Arrangement
Michael Landau: Guitar, Electric Guitar
Rusty Anderson: Electric Guitar
Paul Jackson, Jr.: Electric Guitar
Greg Wells: Guitar, Drums
Charlie Larkey: Acoustic Bass, Bass
Nathan East: Bass
Armand Sabal-Lecco: Bass
Russ Kunkel: Drums
Michael Fisher Duke Mushroom-Percussion
Wynton Marsalis: Trumpet
David Boruff: Saxophone
Jim Thatcher: French Horn
Barbara Northcutt: Oboe
David Shostac: Flute
Strings: Endre Granat, Julie Ann Gigante,Jacqueline Brand,Miran Kojian, Michael Rishik, Amy Hershberger, Brian Dembow, David Walther, John Walz, Arman Ksajikian
Celine Dion: Vocals, Backing Vocals
k.d. lang: Vocals
Steven Tyler: Backing Vocals
Mark Hudson: Backing Vocals, Vocal Arrangement
Dan Woods: Backing Vocals
Simon Franglen Lester Mendez Dave Schommer Michael McCoy: Programming
Carole King, Humberto Gatica,Babyface,David Foster, Pop Rox, Carole Bayer Sager: Producers
Recorded by: Humberto Gatica, Chris Brooke, Rudy Guess, Felipe Elgueta, Alex Rodriguez, Paul Botin, Michael McCoy, Bobby Arnold, & Erik Gillberg.
Assistant Engineers: Chris Brooke, Cesar Ramirez,
Christian Robles, Frederik Sarhagen, Kevin Guarnieri,
Kevin Meyers, Jesse Gorman, & Mike Tocci.
Mixed by: Huberto Gatica at Westlake Audio, L.A.
Mastered by: Vlado Meller & Steve Kadison at
Engineering by: Pablo Munguia
Vocal Editing by: Kenny O'Brien
Album Coordinators: Rudy Guess, Lorna Guess,
Lisa Goich-Andreadis, Stacey Crockett, & Kristine Ezrin
Art Direction & Design: Vigon/Ellis
Photography: Joyce Tenneson
LOVE MAKES THE WORLD / REVIEW by Mathew Greenwald
I firmly believe that the older you are, the better you get,Bob Dylan said that a few years ago when he go the standard query, How much longer can you keep doing this? Well, it's certainly been true in the case of many artists, the most recent example being Carole King.
She's just uleashed a bona fide masterpiece, "Love Makes The World", on her own Rockingale Records. She's a national treasure, with her extensive song catalog standing firmly in the rarified air with songwriters such as George Gershwin, Brian Wilson and Jerome Kern. "Love Makes The World" doesn't just remind us of that, but shows her taking her art to even greater hights.
What Carole King does on this album is something she is quite adept at (especially throughout her solo career)- making the world and the distance between people smaller. There is a universal quality to her work, even her most intimate love songs. Compositions such as "Monday without You" and "The Reason" distill emotions that we all feel from time to time, and usually often throughout our lives. In this way, I ofen look at King as almost a folk writer, as opposed to only a (brilliant) pop songwriter.Performance-wise, it's the one of her strongest albums. Simple yet effective arrangements and a great diversity of styles and the albums' programming is pure genius. For example, following the two gorgeous, midtempo opening songs (thetitle
track and "You Can Do Anything"), "The Reason" - which is short of a centerpiece to the record- begins deceptively with a melancholy, gospel-style piano pattern. The song slowly builds, resolving itself on a dynamic, powerful chorus. Yet, the following a stately bridge that is somehat remincent of John Lennon, King throws in a modulation that ends the song through the roof, aided and abatted by a powerful electric guitar solo and King's own gospel-soaked vocal wailing.There's a lot more to discover on "Love Makes The World" and part of the fun is getting there, therefore I won't give away too much here, as the listener will no doubt find his or her favourites. Mark my words, this record is going to age very, very well, and will become one of those albums that folks will bring to a party in lieu of a bottle of fine wine. In these days of doubt, this album will make you feel to use Carole's own words - "Safe again".
Like many veteran artists, Carole King has found artistic and marketing freedom by releasing the album herself, on her own label (Rockingale). Although it will be available at all traditional retail outlets, it's also available online, namely at www.caroleking.com.
