Metro
Grapevine
The Story
"Grapevine" delivers the exciting fusion of Chuck Loeb's unrestrained guitar prowess and Mitchel Forman's phenomenal keyboards. Coupled with the German rising star, Wolfgang Haffner on drums and newcomer Mel Brown on bass, Metro's latest release charts new jazz territory. Chris Mann of Smooth & Soul enthuses, "All I can say is, if you think you knew what any of the players on this CD could do, think again." "Grapevine" features eleven instrumentals, one vocal number ("The Shine"), and their jazzy spin on a song made popular by the Temptations ("I Heard It Through The "Grapevine""), with brief, talkbox vocalisms.
The Music
06:22 | Trance | Instrumental |
07:43 | The Third Law | Instrumental |
06:27 | I Heard It Through The Grapevine | Vocal |
04:52 | Can You Hear Me Now? | Instrumental |
06:03 | Yikes! | Instrumental |
04:48 | Cream | Instrumental |
05:01 | Mr. Fruity | Instrumental |
05:57 | Where She Was | Instrumental |
05:50 | Lagoon | Instrumental |
06:18 | The Shine | Vocal |
05:24 | Azul | Instrumental |
06:51 | One Of Many | Instrumental |
00:40 | Patriot | Instrumental |
The Artists
Chuck Loeb | Guitars, Programming, Production, Assistance To The Assistant Engineer, Additional Engineering |
Mitchel Forman | Keyboards, Vocals, Programming, Production, Additional Engineering |
Wolfgang Haffner | Drums |
Mel Brown | Bass |
Nina Forman | Vocals on "The Shine" |
Ellis Forman | Additional Keys on "Trance" and percussion on "Azul" |
Steve Sykes | Engineering |
Hatsukazu Inagaki | Engineering Assistance |
Troy Blaisdell | Technical Support |
Aaron Rapoport | Photography |
Michael Banks | Front Cover Photography |
Sean Mowle | Art Direction, Design |
Phil Magnotti | Mixing |
Fred Kevorkian | Mastering |
Reynold De Silva | Executive Production |
Yusef Gandhi | Executive Production |
Recorded December 11-13, 2001 at Castle Oak Studio, Calabasas, CA.
Additional recording at Automotive Sound, Hastings, NY and Showerhead Studios, Simi Valley, CA. Mixed at Automotive Sound. Mastered at Absolute Audio, NY. |