Funky Unit: funky Abba (2004)

Product Summary Label: Justin Time UPC: 00068944851027 Release Date: 10/26/2004 Buy.com Sku: 63911672 Item#: MUMD3E Buy.com Sales Rank: 25654 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Money, Money, Money ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 2. Knowing Me, Knowing You ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 3. Voulez-Vous ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 4. Thank You For the Music ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 5. Super Trouper ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 6. Summer Night City ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 7. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 8. Name of the Game, The ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 9. Dancing Queen ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 10. Take a Chance on Me ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 11. S.O.S. ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit 12. When All is Said and Done ~ Nils Landgren Funk Unit   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Tributee: ABBA. The Nils Landgren Funk Unit: Nils Landgren; Karl-Martin Almqvist (tenor saxophone); Henrik Janson, Magnum Coltrane Price, Roberto Di Gioia, Wolfgang Haffner, Jesper Nordenstr?m, Lars DK Danielsson, Per Lindvall. Personnel: Nils Landgren (vocals, trombone); Magnum Coltrane Price (vocals, synthesizer); Sharon Dyall, Viktoria Tolstoy (vocals); Henrik Janson (guitar); Karl-Martin Almqvist (tenor saxophone); Till Br?nner (trumpet); Benny Andersson (piano); Roberto Di Gioia, Jesper Nordenstr?m (keyboards); Lars Danielsson (electric bass); Wolfgang Haffner (drums, background vocals); Per Lindvall (drums). Additional personnel: Benny Andersson. Audio Mixers: Nils Landgren; Magnum Coltrane Price; Stefan Boman. Liner Note Author: Nils Landgren. Recording information: Budzilla Studios (09/01/2003-09/04/2003); Polar Studio A, Stockholm, Sweden (09/01/2003-09/04/2003). Photographer: Siegfried Lock. In the '70s and early '80s, ABBA was one of the groups that most rock critics loved to hate. How could ABBA's bubblegum Europop be so huge, critics wondered, at a time when challenging visionaries like Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Lou Reed were making records? But music doesn't always have to be challenging, daring or provocative -- it can simply entertain as long as it's well done -- and time has been much kinder to the Swedish outfit than those '70s critics. Long after ABBA's 1983 breakup, their recordings continue to sell -- and in the '90s and 2000s, ABBA covers have come from some unlikely places (including metal, industrial rock, techno and darkwave). This intriguing 2004 release finds Swedish trombonist/producer Nils Landgren putting a funk/neo-soul/hip-hop spin on ABBA's songs, which works surprisingly well in an R&B-oriented environment. Then again, it isn't all that surprising when you consider that ABBA had funk and disco influences. In their own glossy, sugary way, some of ABBA's hits were funky -- mildly funky, but funky nonetheless. So in some cases, Landgren takes Europop gems that already had a little funk to begin with -- including "Voulez-Vous," "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight")" and "Money, Money, Money" -- and gives them a great deal of funk. And even though ABBA's classic versions of "Dancing Queen," "SOS" and "Knowing Me, Knowing You" were a long way from hardcore R&B (more like hardcore Europop/Top 40), the tunes are certainly R&B-minded after Landgren interprets them. Employing various male and female vocalists, Landgren gives us some idea what the ABBA songbook might sound like in the hands of Jill Scott, R. Kelly, En Vogue or Erykah Badu. None of those artists are actually on this CD; regardless, Funky ABBA is, from an R&B standpoint, a creative success. ~ Alex Henderson Producer: Nils Landgren Funk Unit; Magnum Coltrane Price Engineer: Magnum Coltrane Price; Stefan Boman Musical Guests Benny Andersson   Technical Info Release Date : 10/26/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 8510 Label : Justin Time Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00068944851027    Related Videos Randy Jackson: Randy Jack...