Risque (Vinyl LP) Indie Punk & Alternative

Risque (Vinyl LP) Indie Punk & AlternativeReleased in 1979, the same year as Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall' and Earth Wind & Fire's 'I Am.' Despite a generic association with these symphonic disco classics, Chic had as much in common with Talking Heads' Fear of Music and PiL's Metal Box, also from 1979. and focusing on a darker kind of dance music. Risqu was most definitely dark, from the grainy black and white sleeve to the songs about degradation and despair. Chic at there effortless and

to be a moral person means to be a criminal

Drawing its name from a form of welcome typical in the Arabian peninsula

And within four more years

"Fortune Smiles" is a jazz fusion LP that sees all ve musicians experimenting equally with their outstanding music qualities

fragile and brilliant like the album which it opens

which range from the funky "Street Scene" and the samba "Love Drops" to a spacy "Trip Merchant" and the complex "Visions

All of human life is here - tracking a drizzly Northern gothic of last bus loneliness

but you faithfully leap in

This new release is a vast leap into an ocean of space and sound

original copies fetch $1000 and upwards

Washington also wrote all of the album's 6 tracks - really fresh numbers that burn with intensity

on such tracks as Usher