Kaleidoscope World (1989)
Quick Album Details
Release Date(s): May 25 1989 | Fontana Records
Formats / Catalog Number: LP / 838 293-1
Tape / 838 293-4
CD / 838 293-2
Chart Performance: Unknown
 
 

 
  Track List

 

   Samples Length (Min.Sec) Writers

1.

 You On My Mind .mp3 3.32 Connell / Drewery / O'Duffy

2.

 Where In The World .mp3 5.33 Connell / Drewery
3. Forever Blue .mp3 4.17 Connell / Drewery
4. Heart For Hire .mp3 4.25 Connell / Drewery
5. Tainted .mp3 3.59 Connell / Drewery
6. Waiting Game .mp3 4.15 Connell / Drewery
7. Precious Words .mp3 4.13 Connell / Drewery
8. Masquerade .mp3 4.46 Connell / Drewery
9. Between Strangers .mp3 4.06 Connell / Drewery
10. The Kaleidoscope Affair .mp3 3.09 Connell / Drewery
11. Previous Words (Instrumental) .mp3 4.11 Connell / Drewery
12. Forever Blue (String Mix) .mp3 4.13 Connell / Drewery
13. Masquerade (Instrumental Mix) .mp3 4.46 Connell / Drewery
 
  Liner Notes
  Swing Out Sister are Corinne Drewery & Andy Connell
All tracks produced and engineered by Paul Staveley O'Duffy except for Coney Island Man - produced by Swing Out Sister and engineered by Stuart James

All synthesizer and computer programming - Martyn Phillips
Additional engineering - Howard Bernstein at Lillie Yard; Roland Herrington at Master Rock; Richard Edwards at Sam West

All songs published by Virgin Songs, Inc (BMI)
Except "You On My Mind" by Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI)/Copyright Control
Photography by Mark Bayley
Sleeve design by Johnson/Panas
Our thanks to Jimmy Webb for is invaluable contribution to this album
Special thanks to Martin Jackson

Also thanks to:
Matthew Sztumpf; Jamie Spencer; Cathy Cornford; Nick Angel; Rick Hunt and all at Phonograpm and Polygram Worldwide; Brian Carr; Bruce Kirkland; and all at 2nd Vision; Kaz Utsunomiya and all at Virgin Music; Martyn Phillips; Alma Caesari; Stuart James; Johnny & Angie; Vini; John Robinson; Helen Woodward; Pete Frith; Phil Da Costa; Michael J. Ade

For further information contact: Sterling Artistes Management
132 Liverpool Road, London N1 1LA
Album Notes:
Swing Out Sister: Corinne Drewery (vocals) and Andrew Connell (keyboards, programming)

Additional personnel: Phil Palmer, Tim Cantsfield (guitars), Jerry Hey (trumpets, horns), Phil Todd, Jamie Talbot, Dan Higgins, Dave Bishop, Chris Davis (saxophones), Gary Grant, Simon Gardner, John Barclay (trumpets), Guy Barker (trumpets, flugelhorn), Pete Beachill, Bill Reichenbach (trombones), Frank Ricotti (vibraphones, glockenspiel, percussion), Chris Whitten (drums), Jess Bailey, Paul O'Duffy, Martin Jackson (programming), Luis Jardim (percussion), Dee Lewis, Nat Augustin, Clare Torrey, Chyna, Derek Green, Stephanie De Sykes (background vocals).
Orchestra conducted by Jimmy Webb
Additional engineering: Howard Bernstien, Roland Herrington, Richard Edwards
All songs written by Connell/Drewery except "You On My Mind" (Connell/Drewery/O'Duffy), "Tainted" and "Between Strangers" (Connell/Drewery)
  Reviews
  Send in your reviews of "Kaleidoscope World"
   
  It's an abrupt step into the past which is identifiably Swing Out Sister in execution but bears little resemblance to their previous cool funk. Instead it draws heavily on Burt Bacharach and John Barry - the Sixties soundtrack set. The orchestration is impeccable throughout.

- Bob Stanley, Melody Maker

 
  Kaleidoscope World is positively out of time. Imagine Bacharach-style orchestral sweeps allied with '60s film themes and weird cocktail jazz and you'll understand where they're coming from. Corinne's voice acts as an anchor. It is by turns light and frothy, deep and chocolate-like, as if someone had poured molasses down your lughole, occasionally hinting at granier textures or gravel-like breathing exercises. Swing Out Sister are down-to-earth in the best sense of the term. Almost the aural equivalent of well-crafted pulp fiction in fact. A new kind of soul, pregnant with emotion, but not too syrupy." (7/10)

- Dele Fadele, New Musical Express

 
  The soundtrack quietly and precisely echoes soft mainstream jazz and swing. Brass and strings are its primary colours. Guitars are picked at chest height. It's a warm, crafted pop record, moodier than its predecessor - clean, subtle, dreamy but just the right side of dippy. Amid the prevailing clatter of remixes and the whine of production-line honey blond(e) poppets, this tailored romantic revivalism has a rare grace and quality. (3/5)

- Paul Elliott, Sounds

 
  Q Magazine - 3 Stars - Good

 
 
The CD Hotline - Performance 7.5 / Sound 8

 
  Which CD - Performance 7 / Sound 8

 

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Compiled by Kun Kim with major contributions by Bjorn Wahlberg and Al Bottcher. Contributions also made by Tomoyuki Saito