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ska invita said:
anyone know who the vocalist is on Mr Fingers - What About This Love?
I cant find a credit anywhere
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According to this interview it's Larry Heard himself singing:

GERD JANSON

So this song was completely done by you, right, in terms of lyrics, vocals?

LARRY HEARD

Yeah, it was actually a milestone for me, it was the first song that I sang the lead vocals to. But actually there is an interesting story behind it, because David Hollister was the one who was planned to sing the song, but he didn’t show up at the studio that day and so I just ended up laying down a rough vocal track, so I could remember the basic melody I had thought of for the lyrics, and pretty much everybody that was present at the studio that day was saying that they liked what I had done and thought I should probably keep it that way. To my good fortune I took their advice and we actually released this as a single
 
Spandex said:
According to this interview it's Larry Heard himself singing:

GERD JANSON

So this song was completely done by you, right, in terms of lyrics, vocals?

LARRY HEARD

Yeah, it was actually a milestone for me, it was the first song that I sang the lead vocals to. But actually there is an interesting story behind it, because David Hollister was the one who was planned to sing the song, but he didn’t show up at the studio that day and so I just ended up laying down a rough vocal track, so I could remember the basic melody I had thought of for the lyrics, and pretty much everybody that was present at the studio that day was saying that they liked what I had done and thought I should probably keep it that way. To my good fortune I took their advice and we actually released this as a single
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wow... i think its a beautiful bit of singing...the little falsetto on "what about our promise to each other" - what a legend

LARRY ❤️❤️
 
Larry sings lead vocals on most of his '92 album Introduction, which I'm sure you'll be into if you don't know it already Ska - loads of lush soulful late night deep shit
 
Spandex said:
According to this interview it's Larry Heard himself singing:

GERD JANSON

So this song was completely done by you, right, in terms of lyrics, vocals?

LARRY HEARD

Yeah, it was actually a milestone for me, it was the first song that I sang the lead vocals to. But actually there is an interesting story behind it, because David Hollister was the one who was planned to sing the song, but he didn’t show up at the studio that day and so I just ended up laying down a rough vocal track, so I could remember the basic melody I had thought of for the lyrics, and pretty much everybody that was present at the studio that day was saying that they liked what I had done and thought I should probably keep it that way. To my good fortune I took their advice and we actually released this as a single
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really interesting interview that,thanks (im a bit alergic to red bull stuff for no good reason really, a bit like boiler room something doesnt sit right, but grinching aside) was interesting to hear of his background as a drummer and also digging reggae as I think his tracks have a smiliar barebones dub approach, and he also often touches some echo too
...also love his innocence and outsiderishness to the whole scene
 
Do you remember the day you produced “Can You Feel It”?

LARRY HEARD

I just remember that it was in the winter and at that time I was living in this apartment that had these really big windows, kind of a loft place, and I had a view of downtown Chicago and it was snowing. All of my friends that were over that night, they all remember that visual of the snow falling and this music playing.

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Hah love to read that - i always suspected snow was involved in these moods!!
Great music for winter

Fez
 
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