HIDEAWAY

Well ... the reason I write this album is because I have the cassette version of it with a very good quality as this was produced decades ago...but the audio quality is really good and in fact I prefer to play this casssette at my Tandberg TCD 440A than playing any CD with my NAD player. The sound of this cassette is really natural where I can get a full blast of balanced combination among treble , bass and midrange nicely. I do enjoy this cassette record, really, eventhough I played it "zero gain" or flat at my amplifier where the bass and treble were set to 0 level. It's a great experience, really.

My excitement on the audio quality is not really matched at all with my satisfaction against the music presented by Stanley Clarke with this album. In fact, I listened to it with many regret as I don't believe that a musician with such a brilliant capacity and talent like Stanley Clarke created this very mediocre quality of music - not even good ...sorry to say. Well ... if you look at the perspective of pop or R&B music this album might have served good for you. But even under pop or R&B scene there are still many groups that are more ear candy that pleases you such as Incognito or Jamiroquai ... I think. You might then question me why do I mention these two names? It's because this Hideaway album is not that faraway from those kind of music only that this one less funky, overall.

Well ... I can find the album title track is quite good as it presents Clarke's bass guitar solo as melody as well so that it provides some sort of enjoyment. But the problem is that everything was composed using R&B scene, so there is no challenge at all in listening this album. In fact the track where Angela Bovil fill up the vocal work, it's totally a pop music and I wonder why this kind of music is featured here at this website. It's much better to include Chick Corea where the music is much jazz and much complex to what the R&B music offers. I a not saying R&B is not good but it's not suitable for this prog website - I believe. Chick Corea album like "The Mad Hatter" is much more suitable here ....there are lots of prog components eventhough it's 85% jazz.

So to say ... I can only give this album with only two stars as the facts tell me that. You should try it and you might agree with me ....

Peace on earth and mercy mild - GW

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