RAIDER OF THE LOST ARK

Caress // Caress
P&P Records LP, 1977

Side One

A1 Opportunity
A2 I Just Want To Be A Part Of You
A3 Just Like In The Movies
A4 I Just Want To Spend My Life With You

Side Two
B1 Brand New Love
B2 Family Man
B3 Lies, Lies, Lies
B4 I Can't Let You Walk Away



Producer, Arranged By - Patrick Adams
Vocals Arranged By - Ed Carpenter
Producer - William "Wild Bill" Scholl (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B3)


Recorded at Minor Sound Studios
White Plains, N.Y.

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A massively soulful album from legendary producer Patrick Adams and a key transitional set that bridges his earlier work on the east coast harmony scene, and his later club classics for P&P! Caress have a sweetly breaking vocal style that's simply wonderful, as great as any of the older groups that Adams worked with, like Ace Spectrum or Black Ivory.

An incredibly soulful lush string and horn arrangements give Caress a very mellow laid back sound. They really sparkle on the gentle tunes and update an early 70s harmony soul approach with a few nicely placed mellow soul touches. A few tunes pick up the groove a bit more, sliding into a sweet Philly-styled groove that features Caress and Adams running neck and neck with the best of the Sigma scene at the time, all warmth, love, and rhythm, without any of the colder touches that show up more on the P&P work. The whole thing's great; an overlooked east coast classic that rivals the best indie underground harmony soul albums of the decade.


Un grandisimo album, salido de la mente de Patrick Adams, que anteriormente ya habia trabajado en Sigma y que tras el abandono de Vincent Montana Jr., se hizo cargo de la Salsoul Orchestra.
Para definir este album solo se me ocurre una palabra: soulful. Con un aire increiblemente philly con unos arreglos ultra soulful, es una de las sorpresas mas agradables de entre las rarezas de los 70.