Honestly, there’s nothing more we could write to persuade you to check it out. For his hard-core fans, for which we are, a new Chic single release (and forthcoming album release) is a delight. The resurrection of Nile Rodgers as a musical icon in the past five years is truly beautiful to see, and he deserves all the credit he has received in recent years. It’s wonderful to hear new music from the band that pioneered disco, and the band that disco nearly ended. It is classic Chic, no one vocalist dominates whilst the vocalists themselves do not overpower the musicians – everyone is an equal. The strings, the horns, the percussion (provided by The Martinez Brothers, no less) are equally wonderful, as are the vocals.
It is classic Chic: Nile Rodger’s trademark guitar chords and progression is all over this track, as is the great Bernard Edwards bass, propelling the disco floor filler onwards, hopefully to a great position on the UK Singles Charts. Back to the song however, and there is very little we can say apart from that it is simply fabulous.
CHIC ILL BE THERE FULL
The disco era at it’s most musically vital represented a full channeling of Afro-Latin world music,big band jazz and the long form rhythms of funk.The day when we get to hear new music from Chic and Nile Rodgers has finally arrived! Nile Rodgers has been teasing us with snippets and instrumentals of the new track entitled ‘ I’ll Be There‘ for the past few weeks, even announcing a tour of the UK beginning tonight at London’s Roundhouse in Camden. This reminds me of my favorite lyric in this song which says “I don’t want to live in the past,but it’s a nice place to visit”. Not to mention the importance of those songs complete embrace by the public in a positive light. Yet it ended with huge popular rappers such as Biggie Smalls and even Will Smith sampling disco/post disco era songs with total pride. It started out with a very virulent hatred in the “disco sucks” mold of the early 80’s freeze out of the music. My own adolescence in the mid/late 90’s seemed to represent a gradual change in the music world’s attitude towards disco. Wanted to close off with a little personal story time about myself and Chic.
The music video featuring a then and now look at a fashion conscious lady enjoying old Soul Train episodes,and spinning Chic vinyl records while the current band perform in a contemporary club perfectly captures their modern/retro disco vibe. As well as being the core element of the post “Rapper’s Delight” take on commercially viable hip-hop that used live musicians as opposed to samples. These are the elements that made Nile and Chic some of the funkiest musicians of the disco era. The emphasis is again on the rhythm instruments such as bass,guitar and percussion. Just before the bridge of the song,the music again reduces down to the bass and percussion sound before even the bass strips out-leaving nothing but the fast paced Afro-Latin percussion before the song fads out on Nile’s chorus.įirst thing that I can say about this Chic groove is that it has the complete flavor of a Chic song from their late 70’s,early 80’s heyday. ‘Nard himself then chimes in on his iconic mid toned rhythm guitar for his always danceable,rhythmic and chunky groove along with melodic (and sometimes spacey) accenting horns.-having Barnes take over on bass as the lead instrument on the vocal refrains. It begins with the rolling percussion of Ralph Rolle,with Jerry Barnes bass weaving itself into the mix for a colorful rhythmic tapestry. Back in the game of hit production work with new artists such as Tensnake and Sam Smith? Nile began fine tuning some discarded tapes recorded originally for Sister Sledge and featuring the late bassist Bernard Edwards and singer Luther Vandross on vocals, and re-introduced his much anticipated comeback with Chic on a new groove entitled “I’ll Be There”. Ever since his major commercial comeback in 2013 with creatively promising most millennial nu funk/disco icons Daft Punk Pharrell Williams on “Get Lucky”. The contributions to every sub-genre of instrumental oriented funky dance music owes a great debt of gratitude to Nile Rodgers and the Chic Organization.
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