Wikipedia / Chic-ism
Wikipedia / Chic-ism
Chic-ism is the eighth studio album by American R&B band Chic, released on the Warner Bros label in 1992.
The album includes singles "Chic Mystique" (No. 1 US Club Play, No. 48 R&B) and "Your Love" (No. 3 US Club Play). Nine years after Chic's final 1983 album Believer, during which Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had worked as songwriters and producers for artists such as David Bowie, Madonna, Duran Duran, Robert Palmer, and the B-52's, and the Chic back catalogue and its musical legacy had been re-evaluated by both music critics and the general public, Edwards and Rodgers reunited for a long-awaited eighth Chic album and the following years would see the two touring the world with their new line-up of the band.
Chic-ism was digitally remastered and re-issued by Wounded Bird Records in 2006.
Track listing
All songs written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards except as indicated.
"Chic Mystique" – 6:27 (Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards/Princesa)
"Your Love" – 5 :54
"Jusagroove" – 3:41
"Something You Can Feel" – 4:31 (Rodgers/Edwards/Princesa)
"One and Only One" – 4:27
"Doin' That Thing to Me" – 4:05
"Chicism" – 4:06 (Rodgers/Edwards/Princesa)
"In It to Win It" – 5:45
"My Love's for Real" – 4:52
"Take My Love" – 5:36
"High" – 4:29
"M.M.F.T.C.F." – 4:36
"Chic Mystique (Reprise)" – 4:05 (Rodgers/Edwards/Princesa)
Personnel
Sylver Logan Sharp – lead vocals (tracks 1–3, 5, 7–9, 11, 13)
Jenn Thomas – lead vocals (tracks 1, 3, 6–8, 10, 11, 13)
Princessa (Jennece S. Moore) – lead vocals/rap (tracks 1, 4, 7, 13)
Tawatha Agee – vocals
Briz – vocals
Michelle Cobbs – vocals
Dennis Collins – vocals
Fonzi Thornton – vocals
Brenda White King – vocals
Nile Rodgers – guitar, vocals
Richard Hilton – keyboards, programming
Andreas Levin – programming
Bernard Edwards – bass guitar, vocals
Sonny Emory – drums
Geraldo Velez – percussion
Stan Harrison – alto & tenor saxophone
Steve Elson – alto, tenor & baritone saxophone
Mac Gollehon – trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
Alfred Brown – strings
Elena Barere – strings
Fred Zlotkin – strings
Gerald Tarack – strings
Julien Barber – strings
Juliet Haffner – strings
Marti Sweet – strings
Matthew Raimondi – strings
Max Ellen – strings
Mitsue Takayama – strings
Regis Iandiorio – strings
Richard Locker – strings
Richard Sortomme – strings
Winterton Garvey – strings
Gene Orloff – conductor (strings)
Production
Nile Rodgers – producer
Dave O'Donell – mixing
Jon Goldberger – mixing
Jeff Gold, Robin Lynch – art direction and design
Stéphane Sednaoui – photography
Charts
References