Fourplay - The Best Of Fourplay (1997/2020) [DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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Fourplay - The Best Of Fourplay (1997/2020)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time - 67:38 minutes | 1,82 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 67:38 mins | 1,55 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

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The collection opens with 'Max-O-Man', a strongly melodic composition co-written by drummer Harvey Mason and taken from the group's debut album, Fourplay, in 1991. Plucked from the same album is '101 Eastbound', a jazz-funk groove propelled by Nathan East's percussive bass. It is Fourplay's most played song on Spotify with over five million plays and East says he wrote it with his brother, Marcel. 'Higher Ground', recorded in 1997, is the first of four covers on the album. It's Fourplay's reimagining of a Stevie Wonder tune from the Motown maestro's Innervisions LP, though it's much slower than the 1973 original and features the slick, soulful harmonies of US vocal sextet, Take 6. Also recorded in 1997, '4 Play And Pleasure', was written by guitarist, Ritenour, who begins the song playing staccato notes as the prelude to a slick, funkified groove, where he then plays a smooth melody using octaves a la Wes Montgomery. Characterised by varieties of texture, the song is distinguished by fine musical interplay between each member of the group. 'Chant', is an elegant Bob James' tune that first appeared on Fourplay's second album, 1993's Between The Sheets and as a single reached No. 98 in the US R&B charts. It's propelled by a chugging funk rhythm and features Nathan East supplying soft, atmospheric vocals as well as a sinewy bass line. The new reissue of The Best Of Fourplay concludes with a bonus track in the shape of 'The Closer I Get To You', taken from the group's Elixir album. R&B fans will recall that the memorable James Mtume-Reggie Lucas-penned song was a hit duet for Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway in 1977. Fourplay revamped the song in 1995 using the exquisite voices of noted soul singers Patti Austin and Peabo Bryson.