Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Donna Summer (vocals, background vocals); Robert "Crit" Castillo (guitar); Miri Ben-Ari (violin); Fred Kron (keyboards, bass synthesizer, programming); Sebastian Arocha Morton (keyboards, Moog synthesizer, programming); Jamie Houston (percussion, programming, background vocals); Davey Warf Rat Chegwidden, Iki Levy (percussion); Lester Mendez, Toby Gad (programming); Josue Sejour, Danielle Brisebois, Bruce Sudano (background vocals); Charles Waddhams, Mary Gaines Bernard, Jenny Berggren, Jakob Petren, Francisco Tomaselli, Nathan DiGesare, Angelo Petrucci, Ron Taylor , Tom Hemby, Dave Chegwidden. | | Audio Mixers: Manny Marroquin; Jamie Houston; John Jaszcz; Sebastian Arocha Morton; Serban Ghenea; John Hanes ; Toby Gad; Brian Malouf. | | Recording information: Chalice Studio, Los Angeles, CA; Criteria Studios, Miami, FL; DY Studios, Venice, CA; Eargasm Studios, Santa Monica, CA; Echo Studios; Henson Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA; Hit Factory, Miami, FL; Rocasound Studios, Burbank, CA; Strawberrybee Studios, New York, NY; Studio City Sound, Los Angeles, CA; The Village Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Westlake studios. | | Photographer: Michael Brandt. | | Arrangers: J.R. Rotem; Toby Gad. | | Preeminent pop diva Donna Summer returned with CRAYONS in 2008, 17 years after her last studio album, and some 30 years after her tenure as the reigning queen of disco. Always a flexible, powerhouse vocalist, Summer sounds as good as ever on CRAYONS, offering up her patented combination of smooth sultriness and gospel punch. | | But the effort is no mere rehash of Summer's glory days. The old dance-pop vibe is still paramount, but the sensibility is contemporary, drawing on the sounds of 21st-century club music with strains of hip-hop, Caribbean sounds, techno, and Euro-pop, as well as adult contemporary balladry, all of it beautifully bound together by Summer's still inimitable style. |
Producer: J.R. Rotem; Greg Kurstin; Jamie Houston; Lester Mendez; Sebastian Arocha Morton; Toby Gad; Chris Gehringer; Joe Wohlmuth; Jared Nugent; Noah Passavoy; J.R. Rotem; Manny Marroquin; Greg Ogan; Erik Madrid; Fred Kron; Shinnosuke; John Chominsky; Greg Kurstin |
Engineer: Joe Wohlmuth; Greg Ogan; John Chominsky; Greg Kurstin; Jamie Houston; Ron Taylor; Sebastian Arocha Morton; Toby Gad |
Musical Guests | | Ziggy Marley |
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