Time Exposure

Stanley Clarke | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025V9
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,553 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Future Shock, February 18, 2002

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H. Wolfe III (Detroit, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Exposure (Audio CD)

I'm disappointed in the reviews of this CD. I personally love it! When you hear it, you have to keep in context the time it was made, 1984.George Orwells Future Shock had come to be. "Blinded Me with Science" was a hit record, you get the picture. Stanley was echoing the time period and with fantastic results. His playing was awesome and despite the tunes being relatively simple by Stanley Clarke standards, I defy anyone to show me another bass player who does what he has done on this CD before or since. Rock on Stanley! and the critics can get a grip!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes I'm Ready For The Future!, July 15, 2003

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Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Exposure (Audio CD)

Sorry but after many years of musical inconsistantsy,
1984's "Time Exposure" stands out.It is without question Clarke's
best album of the 1980's (mabye ever)and it's loose concept about
the musicians musical future shines best on the sizzling,dancable
electro-funk numbers "Are You Ready (For The Future)",the tital
song,"Future" and the lovely Howard Hewitt pop vocal number
"Heaven Sent You" and it's Hewitt-less companion "Future Shock"
(not the Curtis Mayfield song) but these five songs make up the
core of this wonderful collection.On the faced-paced "Speedball"
and the frenetic "Spacerunner",Stanley Clarke's famous electric
bass thumping battles beat-heavy drum machines and swirling synths-adding a slightly more improvised tone to the proceedings.
The album's closest thing to a weak moment is it's closing
number "I Know Just How You Feel",a wonderful piece of hard-edged
new-wave funk nearly ruined by Clarke's poor excuse for singing,
a common failing of some of his earlier albums.But this minor
complaint is not enough to destroy the integrity,excellent
compositions and fine musicianship that characterizes this entire
album.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stanley Was Onto Something, March 2, 2011

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Andre S. Grindle "Andre' Grindle" (Brewer Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Exposure (Audio CD)

During the early/mid 80's all too many musicians from Stanley Clarkes era found themselves complaing and worrying rather endlessly about the assault on their personal musical values in a new decade that seemed obssessed with electronic/computer/video game culture and surface level values of fasion. To an extent that was true but I think what some people remember about the 80's is the interesting reactions to that. It happened in all levels of pop culture:in music,literature and all matter of visual media. Perhaps it was the rebirth of "old fasioned" values in Regan era America that baught back a modern version of the retro 50's pseudo futurism but no matter what all this began to find it's way deeply into the jazz-funk scene during this time and artists such as Herbie Hancock with his similarly themed Future Shock album addressed this quite well and here so would Clarke.

There is an important difference in approch though. Whereas Herbie looked to further the electronic sound of his music via a DJ/hip-hop orietned sound Stanley Clarke decided to tackle the new wave side of funk on a bit further. For an album based in such a seemingly regid electronic dance ethic the nature of the music is rhythmically and musically rather diverse in nature. Some of the music is fact very well done but somewhat more stereotypical mid 80's electro such as "Are You Ready For The Future" and "Future" but Clarke also makes room for some more hardcore 80's funk here as well with pieces like "Speedball",the speedy title song and the hyperkinetic "Spacerunner" not only feature strong contributions from old Clarke musical collaborators Jeff Beck and George Duke but also the presense of P-Funk's "horny horns" as well,not only instilling the music with a strong sense of tradition but features some very inspired bass soloing from Clarke,both in a strumming and slapping style-often all at the same time.There's also time for the smooth R&B duet with Howard Hewett on "Heaven Sent You",something of a hit from this album and a modern day new wavish version of RTF's rocking,guitar oriented fusion sound on "I Know Just How You Feel"

The lyrical themes on the songs that do feature vocals (and there actually only a few of them) make it abundantly clear that Clarke and company are as concerned as many were about the artificial culture they saw as infiltrating music from all spectrums at the time. But all the same if the music is any indication they decided to take an approch to the situation to fight fire and marshmellows:by embracing elements of the new video-game/electro musical sound in order to enhance their sound rather than involuntarily sumbit to it without question. Now these heavy synthesizer/electronic elements were not quite through for Stanley Clarke after this album but because of the fact this album chose to address this head on, both musically and thematically I would personally recommend this as his strongest album of his more "electro" period not only because of this but based on the strengh,energy and high level of musicianship of the music here. Slap it on and just enjoy!