disc1
01_01 Ain't That Funky Kind Of Hard On You
01_02 Dance
01_03 Elevator (Going Up)
01_04 Angels Are Watching Me
01_05 A New Day
01_06 Magical Ride (Wave Of Love)
01_07 Gift Of Love
01_08 Heaven Knows
01_09 Can We Keep This Going
01_10 Gimme Some Love
01-11 You Are A Star
01_12 See Some Light
01-13 I Deserve To Breathe
01-14 'Let's Do It' (Dance Ritual Mix)
disc2
02-01 You Are Everything
02-02 Together We Can
02-03 Joy Inside My Tears
02-04 Because We Love It
02-05 Turned Onto You
02-06 Do What You Gotta Do
02-07 Stop On By
02-08 Slick City
02-09 You've Got It Bad Girl
02-10 In The Morning
02-11 Been Such A Long Time Gone
02-12 Es Vedra
02-13 Everlasting Love
02-14 Ain't No Stoppin' Love
Louie Vega's latest album, Louie Vega Starring... is a dualdisc conceptual record featuring over twenty-five artists on twenty-eight different songs. The record is Louie Vega’s first solo album ever and a contender for his magnum opus. Vega is in esteemed company, with a seasoned group of collaborators imparting their magic for this special project including; Funkadelic & George Clinton; The 3 Winans Brothers and The Clark Sisters; Jocelyn Brown; Nick Monaco & Soul Clap; N'Dea Davenport; Lisa Fischer; Cindy Mizelle; Anane Vega; Monique Bingham; Caron Wheeler (Soul II Soul); Josh Milan; Bucie; Tony Momrelle; Kaylow; Vikter Duplaix; Cassio Ware; Adeva, Covertion & Leroy Burgess; Kenny Bobienl; Zara McFarlane; Luis Salinas; Roberto Roena; Diviniti; and Byron Stingily.
By bringing together the diverse genres of house, funk, latin soul and gospel, Louie Vega has created a record filled with positive vibes. Like a fine bottle of wine, the album’s ingredients and their interactions with each other come to the light upon pressing play. Listeners can expect notes of Afro & Latin and pure house infused with funk, gospel, Caribbean, jazz, r&b, soul. All the ingredients for a truly global party.
Each song is uniquely crafted to represent a different emotion, energy or experience. Their melange with Louie Vega’s timeless music production is the album’s true treat, “Today’s listener wants to feel good and that’s exactly what our songs and tracks do. We celebrate the gift of love, art and music,” adds Vega. Followers of his illustrious career will find the album unveils a completely new side of the legendary artist; that of a sound chemist. Louie explains, “My inspirations came from various visits around the world and experiences in life. As far as the album’s sounds, I revisited lots of R&B, soul, gospel, nu jazz, even some disco, all within the backdrop of house music, took it back to the artist and song tailoring” .
Describing his artistic process, “The album came together naturally, it was a growing process. It was like planting a tree, each branch represented an artist, a sound, a groove. The entire process happened within a few years. It started with a few songs and then this past year, I was in a creative state and the music happened back to back. As I travelled and toured, I met artists on the road and would record with them a few weeks later. The experience with the artists on the album was magical; they are all so talented and very unique and have their own special quality.”
The delivered sampling of featured artists on Louie Vega Starring… is one for the record books and a must for any music aficionado as Louie explains, “This body of work is a masterpiece that will be party of my legacy. I see it up there on the same high shelf with albums like Nuyorican Soul, Elements of Life, and Masters at Work.”
disc1
01_01 Ain't That Funky Kind Of Hard On You
01_02 Dance
01_03 Elevator (Going Up)
01_04 Angels Are Watching Me
01_05 A New Day
01_06 Magical Ride (Wave Of Love)
01_07 Gift Of Love
01_08 Heaven Knows
01_09 Can We Keep This Going
01_10 Gimme Some Love
01-11 You Are A Star
01_12 See Some Light
01-13 I Deserve To Breathe
01-14 'Let's Do It' (Dance Ritual Mix)
disc2
02-01 You Are Everything
02-02 Together We Can
02-03 Joy Inside My Tears
02-04 Because We Love It
02-05 Turned Onto You
02-06 Do What You Gotta Do
02-07 Stop On By
02-08 Slick City
02-09 You've Got It Bad Girl
02-10 In The Morning
02-11 Been Such A Long Time Gone
02-12 Es Vedra
02-13 Everlasting Love
02-14 Ain't No Stoppin' Love
