Adam F - Colours Revisited

‘Colours Revisited’, a revision of Adam F’s MOBO Award-winning 1997 debut album, which featured ‘F-Jam’, is a story of musical rebirth and passion. Adam F, realising that ‘Circles’ had found a new audience partly thanks to artists like PinkPantheres and to make it for the first time ever available online for fans, decided to recreate the Colours album. Instead of simply remastering the tracks, Adam went all in. Over two years, he meticulously reworked the original music, from restoring vintage instruments like his Fender Rhodes piano to enlisting UK jazz legends like Julian Joseph. Vocalists including Kirsty Hawkshaw and the late MC Conrad re-recorded their parts, while new solos from world-class musicians added fresh life to the tracks.  

I was reflexively suspicious of this "revisiting" business, but this is still Colours as you remember it - it just raises the production bar a bit without being embarrassed of that 90s liquid sound.

i'm not mad at most of it and Kirsty Hawkshaw is a fantastic singer.

But ya just can't go and replace TRACEY fuckin' THORN. After hearing her original version, this "revisit" just sounds like a demo.

I've got mixed feelings about this. Sure the production sounds crisp and all. But from time to time certain live instruments dominate the production in a different way than it used to. And it's at those moments I think I'd rather have the original versions. This is too much like George Lucas re-editing the classic star wars movies. 

/pass