(Funk, Soul) 24-Carat Black - Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (1973) {Stax Records STAX SCD-8591-2, USA} {Remastered} - 1994, APE (image+.cue) lossless

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The 24-Carat Black / Ghetto-Misfortune's Wealth
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REM GENRE Soul
REM DATE 1973
REM DISCID 610D7D08
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.0b1"
PERFORMER "24-Carat Black"
TITLE "Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth"
FILE "24-Carat Black - Ghetto. Misfortune's Wealth.ape" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Synopsis One - In The Ghetto ~ God Save The World"
    PERFORMER "24-Carat Black"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Poverty's Paradise"
    PERFORMER "24-Carat Black"
    INDEX 00 08:35:40
    INDEX 01 08:38:65
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Brown-Baggin'"
    PERFORMER "24-Carat Black"
    INDEX 00 21:18:53
    INDEX 01 21:21:58
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Synopsis Two - Mother's Day"
    PERFORMER "24-Carat Black"
    INDEX 00 28:06:28
    INDEX 01 28:08:33
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Mother's Day"
    PERFORMER "24-Carat Black"
    INDEX 00 30:14:03
    INDEX 01 30:16:05
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Foodstamps"
    PERFORMER "24-Carat Black"
    INDEX 00 40:00:25
    INDEX 01 40:03:68
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth"
    PERFORMER "24-Carat Black"
    INDEX 00 46:31:08
    INDEX 01 46:34:08
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "24-Carat Black (Theme)"
    PERFORMER "24-Carat Black"
    INDEX 00 50:15:25
    INDEX 01 50:18:48

... релиз прекрасного соул-проекта, легендарного аранжировщика, Дэйла Уорена (Dale Warren).
состав:
"Consisting of bassist Larry Austin, percussionist Tyrone Steels, horn players Jerome Derrickson and Ricky Foster, keyboardists James and William Talbert and singers Kathleen Dent, Valerie Malone and Princess Hearn (who would later marry the producer), 24-Carat Black were the proteges of legendary arranger Dale Warren."
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краткая история:
The Detroit-born Warren was nephew to Barry Gordy’s second wife, a connection he used to bring his classical violin training to Motown in 1961. In the late ’60s, Warren landed at Stax, where he arranged Isaac Hayes epic “Walk On By” and arranged, recorded and produced 24-Carat Black.
Though it was largely ignored at the time, the British jazz and funk magazine, Straight No Chaser later wrote:
“Recorded under Warren’s micro-direction with a bunch of teenagers at a time when prog rock bands were the only ones conceiving such a magnum opus, the album struggled to find its place in the market. It was too challenging for an audience looking to escape to the good times of Philadelphia or drink from the joyous wellspring of Motown. Today it stands the test of time as a deep and musically astounding meditation on the black experience in the Seventies.”
The album cover, designed by Ron Gorden and David Hogan and photographed by Frederick Toma, reminds us of the dichotomy of that experience, at times painted with insidious darkness, at other times wrapped in shining gold.
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Талантливый проект был преступно забыт и не замечен, как впрочем и многие другие...

"Classically trained Detroit arranger Dale Warren got his start with the famed Motown label and, from the late '60s throughout the early '70s, composed the majority of string scores for soul artists on Stax Records (arranging for such artists as Billy Eckstine, Eddie Floyd, Isaac Hayes, Albert King, and the Staple Singers, among others). During this time, Warren befriended an up-and-coming Cincinnati soul outfit called the Ditalians. After he convinced them to change their name to 24-Carat Black, he took them under his wing -- both composing and producing their lone album, 1973's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth, a conceptual work that focused on life in the inner city. The album went unnoticed and fell through the cracks shortly thereafter, as 24-Carat Black never issued any other recordings. But over the years, Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth became a sort of cult classic among hip-hop artists, as such acts as Heal, Young Disciples, and Digable Planets used samples from the album for their own tracks. Long out of print, Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth was finally issued on CD in 1995. The members of 24-Carat Black would later turn up in the group Shotgun."