George Duke is not typical for the artists I'm usually posting here. He has an amazing background as a jazz-pianist and synthesizist, releasing solo stuff as well as working with Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, George Clinton, Dizzy Gillespie...the list goes on.
( Check his website for all the juice. ) A lot of his stuff is sambaesque bonga funk jazz, about sandy bitches (or beaches, I have bad hearing), with ooh's and aaahaaa's, wobbly guitars, and luke warm cocktails, but then there's this lil' gem, with all its slight oddities (which I wish the track had more of...)
This track actually reminds me a bit of Brian Auger's brilliant 'Night Train To Nowhere' (my post). Not that the songs sound that much alike musically: it's more that the singer has an authentic English accent, and the music is silky smooth and funky at the same time, without sounding overly jolly, and, what's more important, is good. (By no means is this the best track in the world, but the singing style always gets stuck in my head.) The part that I'm loving is how unbelievably smoothly the words in the first verses ooze out of this clearly super-relaxed singer. It's so so smooth.
Overall, this track sounds like a lot of other 1985 disco/funk/electro tracks from the same year even, especially the Fletch-ish windpipe synth sounds and the horny guitar, but the super-smoothness in the singing make this song wonderfully odd.
George Duke - Thief In The Night
Listen / Buy: GEMM / eBay / Music Stack
p.s. I can actually picture this track in a movie about a P.I. who's breaking into the curly blonde's beach trailer, and getting chased by her dog. A mixture of Lethal Weapon, Fletch and Night Eyes.
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