Track Listing

1. A Prophet Named K.G.
2. Life On Mars
3. Together Once Again
4. Stargazer
5. One Million Miles From The Ground
6. You Can Be What You Wanna Be
7. Theme From The Planets
8. Rings Of Saturn
9. First Light In The Morning
10. Dance With Me Tonight
11. Holdin� On
12. Ode Infinitum
13. Disco Lights
14. What The World Is Coming To
15. Going Back To Kingston Town
16. Dreams Of Tomorrow
17. Prelude #1

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50848 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

For fans of 70s Jazz Disco Funk Legend Dexter Wansel
Hi everybody,

This CD is a perfect jazz disco funk music!!!!
I started to listen to Dexter Wansel music because i am
jamiroquai fan and when i bought "Late Nite Tales" cd
which is a compilation of Jay Kay's favourite 70s disco funk tunes, it contained 2 (!!!) songs of dexter wansel -
"Life On Mars" and "I'll Never Forget". I fell in love with this music. So the only place where i found Dexter Wansel cds was www.amazon.co.uk. Today i have received the cd and now i am listening to the tracks... I have such magical feelings - this music is very special for me. There was a very short period in history of music when musicians used rhodes piano, hohner clav, cool oldschool synths like ARP (which sounds soooo fantastic),
cool rhythm section including great 70s drumming style and funky fender bass with compression effect with a lot of octaves, slapping, and amazing live strings and brass!!!!!
besides the tunes are so beautiful - Dexter (he was philadelphia international's director of A&R)
used to produce and write/arrange tracks for many american 70s soul funk disco stars like jacksons, MSFB, The O'Jays and many others.

So this cd and the one called "Voyager/Time Is Slipping Away"
which is also sold on amazon.co.uk is a unique chance to listen to amazing solo work of cool 70s musician Dexter Wansel.

all the best

Ian

'Two Consistant And interesting Sets'
Both these albums date from the mid seventies, 'Life On Mars' from 1976 and 'What The World Is Coming Too' from 1977. Though neither made much of an impression at the time, due to the popularity of bands such as Jamiroquai and Brand New Heavies the commercial value of 'Jazz Funk' has risen sharply and for fans willing to explore the origins of that genre these are a good place to start. Of principal interest to the 'Jazz Funk crowd' here are 'A Prophet Named K.G, 'Theme From The Planets' and the title track from 'Life On Mars' and 'Ode Infinitum' and the really funky, building 'Disco Lights' from 'What The World Is Coming Too'. Most of the tracks on both albums have a kind of 'spacey vibe' to them in keeping with the 'Life On Mars' theme. There are of course a few (more typical for PIR records) ballads to break things up a little and occasionally Wansel throws in a more 'soundtracky' sounding instrumental ('Stargazer' especially from LOM). While not all of the Jazz Funk material is essential listening (some become a little too self-indulgent and just degenerate into 'directionless noodling') if your a fan of the genre and haven't tried these you could do far worse.