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Pure Release ‎– On The Loose

$82.00
Label: Tambourine Party Records – TPR 005
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, 180g
Country: Canada
Released:
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Soul

Tracklist

A1 Having A Party
A2 So Much Love
A3 I'll Know It's Love For Sure
A4 Give Your Love To Me
B1 Loving You Is My Fantasy
B2 A Real Fine Dancer
B3 You've Gotta Stop, Look, And Listen

Companies, etc.

  • Copyright ©  James Fernandez
  • Copyright ©  Release Records (10)
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗  James Fernandez
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗  Release Records (10)
  • Recorded At  Present Time Recorders
  • Mastered At  K Disc Mastering

Credits

  • Arranged By [Rhythm Arrangements], Producer  Pure Release
  • Bass Guitar  Guy "Snaplike" Gandara
  • Composed By, Arranged By [Vocal Arrangements], Producer  James Fernandez (3)
  • Congas, Timbales  Vidal Pedro Jr.
  • Consultant [Financial Consultant]  Terry Reyes (2)
  • Cover [Cover Photography]  Ron Masumoto
  • Cover [Cover Restoration]  Andrew Savery-Whiteway
  • Drums  Louie Chavez (4)
  • Drums, Percussion  Victor R. Barrientos* (tracks: A3, A4, B1, B2, B3)
  • Engineer  Bob Wurster, N.S. Rockwell, N.S. Rockwell
  • Engineer, Mixed By [Mixdown], Remix  Bob Wurster
  • Executive Producer  Dylan McArthur
  • Guitar  Raul R. Ybave
  • Keyboards, Backing Vocals [Background Vocals], Percussion, Remix, Cover [Cover Concept], Synthesizer [Synthesizer Programming], Arranged By [Vocal Arrangements]  David E. Flores
  • Lead Vocals, Guitar  James Fernandez (3) (tracks: Jimmy Fernandez)
  • Photography By [Assistant Photographer]  Diane Oscarson, Irene Cruz, Michael Seieroe
  • Remastered By [Uncredited]  Anders Peterson

Notes

Finally, after 40 long years, the impossibly rare diamond-in-the-rough LP from Pure Release is once again seeing the light of day. Led by James Fernandez, this East LA Funk crossover is in a league of its own. It’s sunshine and feel-good vibes from top to bottom with a decidedly learned but still naive aesthetic. Fernandez stacked his band with a cast of mostly Latino local session musicians so it’s needless to say that the rhythm section punches well above its weight for a private release such as this one.



Pure Release - On the Loose can be everything from a house party maker to a DJ’s secret weapon with its depth of dance floor filling cuts. One of the choice tracks from the album, “I’ll Know it’s Love For Sure”, met some criticism after the album’s release for its lack of a certain level of polish in the production. It was eventually re-recorded and pressed to an equally rare 7” single. This version of the hit song would go on to become the most sought after, and therefore most easily recognized version. This means, for old and new fans of Pure Release alike, that the album cut of this track from On the Loose might be an entirely new experience with all the same floor-filling potential.



Even in 2021 this album scratches the itch we all have to get up, get out, and get moving. If you know you know, and if you don’t you’re about to find out.



A very special thank you to Aki from Cosmos Records in Toronto for helping us discover this release.


Limited Release 500 copies,

ETA Late Feb - March

Tracks were re-arranged due to sound quality and artist's request.

- Tambourine Party Records -

Photographed at: Gribble-Purdee Residence, San Marino.