Nils Landgren Funk Unit-Funky ABBA-CD-FLAC-2004-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Nils Landgren Funk Unit
     Title   | Funky ABBA
     Genre   | Funk                                 Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 52:10
     Label   | ACT Music                            Store   | 2004
     Catalog | ACT 9430-2                           Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 887 kbps                             Size    | 351.05 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Money, Money, Money                                         2:43
     02. Knowing Me, Knowing You                                     4:27
     03. Voulez-Vous                                                 4:58
     04. Thank You For The Music                                     3:29
     05. Super Trouper                                               4:28
     06. Summer Night City                                           4:54
     07. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!                                        4:12
     08. The Name Of The Game                                        5:12
     09. Dancing Queen                                               5:21
     10. Take A Chance On Me                                         4:00
     11. SOS                                                         4:45
     12. When All Is Said And Done                                   3:41
 Notes  
     In the 70's and early 80's, ABBA was one of the groups that most
     rock critics loved to hate. How could ABBA's bubblegum Europop be so
     huge, critics wondered, at a time when challenging visionaries like
     Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Lou Reed were making records?
     But music doesn't always have to be challenging, daring or
     provocative - it can simply entertain as long as it's well done -
     and time has been much kinder to the Swedish outfit than those '70s
     critics.
     Long after ABBA's 1983 breakup, their recordings continue to sell -
     and in the '90s and 2000s, ABBA covers have come from some unlikely
     places (including metal, industrial rock, techno and darkwave). This
     intriguing 2004 release finds Swedish trombonist/producer Nils
     Landgren putting a funk/neo-soul/hip-hop spin on ABBA's songs, which
     works surprisingly well in an R&B-oriented environment. Then again,
     it isn't all that surprising when you consider that ABBA had funk
     and disco influences.
     In their own glossy, sugary way, some of ABBA's hits were funky -
     mildly funky, but funky nonetheless. So in some cases, Landgren
     takes Europop gems that already had a little funk to begin with -
     including "Voulez-Vous", "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After
     Midnight")" and "Money, Money, Money" - and gives them a great deal
     of funk. And even though ABBA's classic versions of "Dancing Queen",
     "SOS", and "Knowing Me, Knowing You" were a long way from hardcore
     R&B (more like hardcore Europop/Top 40), the tunes are certainly
     R&B-minded after Landgren interprets them.
     Employing various male and female vocalists, Landgren gives us some
     idea what the ABBA songbook might sound like in the hands of Jill
     Scott, R. Kelly, En Vogue or Erykah Badu. None of those artists are
     actually on this CD; regardless, "Funky ABBA" is, from an R&B
     standpoint, a creative success.

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