Joe Zawinul - The Immigrants (1988) 320 kbps

Tracklist

01 - March Of The Lost Children
02 - Criollo
03 - Shadow And Light
04 - King Hip
05 - No Mercy For Me (Mercy, Mercy, Mercy)
06 - The Devil Never Sleeps
07 - You Understand
08 - From Venice To Vienna

personnel :

Richard Page - Vocals
Hector "Rudy" Regalado - Percussion, Vocals
Cornell Rochester - Drums
Tony Lane - Art Direction
Nancy Donald - Art Direction
Yari More - Vocals
Liz Cluse - Assistant Engineer
Lou Beach - Artwork
Ken Perry - Mastering
Alex Acuna - Percussion, Drums, Vocals
Joe Zawinul - Percussion, Korg Synthesizer, Keyboard Bass, Producer, Keyboards, Vocals
Marsha Burns - Production Coordination
Dr. George Butler - Executive Producer
Jim Champagne - Assistant Engineer, Mixing
Paul Ericksen - Engineer, Mixing
Chris Fuhrman - Remixing, Assistant Engineer
Abraham Laboriel, Sr. - Bass
Scott Henderson - Guitar

Although Zawinul tried touring alone in the immediate wake of the breakup of Weather Report, he soon returned to a group format, first with Weather Update in 1986 and a couple of years later with the raffishly named Zawinul Syndicate. The multi-national Syndicate basically expands the Weather Report format into a sextet, with a rock guitar (Scott Henderson) replacing the sax, an extra percussionist on board to join WR's Alex Acuna, and more vocal support then ever -- and if a Wayne Shorter-like melody line was needed, Zawinul would play it himself on his new Korg Pepe wind synthesizer. If anything, The Immigrants burrows even further into the world-music bloodstream than WR ever did, with vocals in Spanish and wordless syllables on top of Zawinul's one-chord Third World grooves. There is also a heavier pop emphasis (again nothing new for Zawinul), including a recomposition of "Mercy Mercy Mercy" called "No Mercy for Me," now an assertive paean to self-reliance that is soulfully sung by the Perri sisters. Some of the tunes and grooves fall short of Zawinul's irresistible best, but "King Hip" swaggers at a high level and "From Venice to Vienna" -- another of Zawinul's nostalgic memoirs of Europe -- lingers hauntingly at the album's close. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide