Tambu
Release Year: 1995
Label: Sony Music
Country: EC
Produced by Elliot Scheiner, Toto
Musicians:
Steve Lukather: Lead Vocals, Background Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Synthesizers, Mandolin
David Paich: Lead Vocals (Track 7, 9), Background Vocals, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizers, Rhodes
Mike Porcaro: Bass, Keyboards
Simon Phillips: Drums, Keyboards
Additional Musicians: Jenny Douglas–McRae: Lead Vocals (Track 5, 7, 9 & 13), John James: Lead Vocals (Track 9), Lenny Castro, Michael Fisher, Paulinho Da Costa: Percussion, Jenny Douglas–McRae, John James, Phillip Ingram, Ricky Nelson: Background Vocals;
- Gift Of Faith
- I Will Remember
- Slipped Away
- If You Belong To Me
- Baby He's Your Man
- The Other End Of Time
- The Turning Point (1 Minute soundsample)
- Time Is The Enemy
- Drag Him To The Roof
- Just Can′t Get To You
- Dave′s Gone Skiing
- The Road Goes On
- Blackeye Japan Bonus Track (1 Minute soundsample)
Although many people seem to simply ignore "Tambu" for sone strange reason, this album is a (more recent) jewel of the TOTO-catalogue. Shrunk to a quartet, TOTO (for the first time with Simon Phillips on drums) had to pick up the pieces after Jeff Porcaro's sudden death in 1992. The result, in my opinion, is a well balanced mixture of AOR/Westcoast "mainstream" with a funky edge to it at times. Sounding much more "positive" than on their predecessor "Kingdom Of Desire", "Tambu" features a nice collection of songs - among which "I Will Remember", "The Turning Point", "The Road Goes On" and "If You Belong To Me" are particularly mentionable. For me (and especially from a "Westcoast point of view") "Tambu" is much more enjoyable than "Kingdom Of Desire" or its lengthy 1999 sucessor "Mindfields". Great work, guys!!! ****1/2
I do not agree with John opinion, even if "tambu" is a great piece of music (there are jewels like "the road goes on" and "I will remember") it's far from "kingdom of desire" and the drumming is much more "mecanic" compared to Porcaro "smooth" drumming.
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