Regarding the Human Condition

Description

Regarding the Human Condition is the debut album by the Antigua born, American based singer and songwriter Patsy Moore, released on Warner Alliance in June 1992, the CCM division of Warner Bros. Records, a Time Warner Company. The album was recorded by Tom Flye at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles, California, and at The Loft and Javelina in Nashville, Tennessee; with John Hug producing for Electric Storm Productions. Mixed by Tom Flye at Alpha And Omega in San Rafael, California. Arranged by John Hug and Patsy Moore. All songs written by Patsy Moore.

Anyone going along to see Martyn Joseph‘s live appearances with Joan Armatrading could be forgiven for asking why Christendom has failed to produce a singer/songwriter with the passion and elegance of that lady. Maybe they have now. For the album debut of this lass from Los Angeles has many of the hallmarks of Arma-trading’s finest – the same acoustic based rhythms with their undulating hints of Latin, jazz and African, the same skilled phrasing using chunks of syllables to create deliciously lazy rhythms and the same way with imagery taking the listener on a guided tour of the human condition. Currently my favourites are a rock-funk opus «A City On A Hill» with a girl chorus coming on like the Raelettes and the moodily atmospheric «Lies (That I Have Known)» but everywhere there are new delights, while the playing from the likes of super-sessioner Dean Parks and ex-Eagle Bernie Leadon is nothing short of superlative. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, February 1993]

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CD tracklist:

01. These Loving Eyes – 4:21
02. A City On A Hill – 4:34
03. Grace – 4:50
04. Dispensation – 1:07
05. Lies (That I Have Known) – 4:35
06. Shooting The Breeze – 4:22
07. With Regard – 5:25
08. The Pilgrim Song – 2:29
09. I Remember – 6:01

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Warner Alliance.

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CREDITS. Produced by John Hug. Arranged by John Hug and Patsy Moore. String Arrangement on track 9 by John Hug. Recorded and mixed by Tom Flye. Mixing Assistant: Mark Hutchins. Additional Engineering: Robert Tassi. Recorded at Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, CA, The Loft, Nashville, TN and Javelina, Nashville, TN. Mixed at Alpha and Omega, San Rafael, CA. Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, New York.

Musicians: Patsy Moore (Lead Vocals, BGV, Synthesizer track 07), Neil Larsen (Organ, Synthesizer, Mellotron, Piano, Fender Rhodes, Tack Piano, Vocoder), Greg Phillinganes (Acoustic Piano, Synthesizer, Organ, Wah Wah Clavinet, Synth Programming), John Jarvis (Piano track 09), Bernie Leadon (Acoustic Guitar, Mandocello, Mandola, Mandolin, Tiple), Buzz Feiten (Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar), Bruce Gaitsch (Acoustic Guitar track 03), Larry Tredwell (Electric Guitar track 02), Dean Parks (Acoustic Guitar, 12 String Guitar, Solo on track 01), John Hug (Acoustic Guitar, Synthesizer), Carole Koenig (Hammer Dulcimer track 01), Zakir Hussain (Tables track 03), John Catchings (Cello), Mark Douthit (Soprano Saxophone, EWI Synth French Horn, Classical Trumpet, Muted Trumpet), Lauren Wood (Vocal Percussion track 03, Vocals from another world on track 04), Willie Weeks (Bass), Abraham Laboriel (Bass track 06), Jeff Porcaro (Drums, Percussion), Lenny Castro (Percussion), Terri Lyne Carrington (Drums track 03). Background Vocals: Vince Ebo, Vicki Hampton, Michael Mishaw, Michael Mellett, John Mandeville, Donna McElroy, Patsy Moore.