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01. Wally Badarou - Dance In The Dust
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02. Wally Badarou - Amber Whispers
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03. Wally Badarou - Where Were We
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04. Wally Badarou - The Lights Of Kinshasa
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05. Wally Badarou - Pictures Of You
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06. Wally Badarou - Serendipity For Two
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07. Wally Badarou - Smiles By The Millions
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08. Wally Badarou - Higher Still
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09. Wally Badarou - Oriental
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10. Wally Badarou - Days To Wonder
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11. Wally Badarou - Dawn Of Europa
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12. Wally Badarou - Crystal Falls
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13. Wally Badarou - Purple Lines
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ARTIST
BADAROU, WALLY
TITLE
Colors Of Silence
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BE WITH RECORDS
CATALOG #
BEWITH 120LP
BEWITH 120LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/15/2023
Synth pioneer and musical polymath,
Wally Badarou
is a genius. A vinyl version of his majestic
Colors Of Silence
has been craved by the Balearic cognoscenti ever since its low-key 2001 release.
Colors Of Silence
is ostensibly a new age album. As ever though, Wally's sophisticated synth textures and expressive keyboard runs are so full of character, so full of life, that this work of art transcends any easy genre categorization. It sounds like
A.r.t. Wilson
or
Suzanne Kraft
, with traces of
CFCF
and
Jonny Nash
. But it was made a good decade earlier than the work of these modern giants. It's understandable why
Colors Of Silence
remains somewhat of a lost gem. Over the years, it has become a true cult record for the ambient/Balearic heads. There can be few artists more under-appreciated given their vast influence than Wally Badarou. His solo work practically defined the sound of the Balearic DJs of the 1980s, and thus the more sophisticated sound of dance culture thereafter. A synth specialist, Badarou was the long-time associate of
Level 42
. He was one of the
Compass Point All Stars
(with
Sly
and
Robbie, Barry Reynolds
,
Mikey Chung
, and
Uziah "Sticky" Thompson
), the in-house recording team of Compass Point Studios responsible for a series of albums in the 1980s recorded by
Grace Jones
,
Tom Tom Club
,
Mick Jagger
,
Black Uhuru
,
Gwen Guthrie
,
Jimmy Cliff
and
Gregory Isaacs
. Badarou's keyboard playing could also be heard on albums by
Robert Palmer
,
Marianne Faithfull
,
Herbie Hancock
,
M (Pop Muzik)
,
Talking Heads
,
Manu Dibango
, and
Miriam Makeba
. He also produced
Fela Kuti
. Meticulously remastered and cut by both
Simon Francis
and
Cicely Balston
respectively, it has been pressed to the highest possible quality at Record Industry in Holland.
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