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Matt Bianco Matt Bianco are a British band that were formed in 1983. They are mainly known for their success in the mid-1980s and their jazz, Latin-flavoured music. The group's name suggests that Matt Bianco is a person, often assumed to be an alias for th ...

's first album after splitting from

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. Eager to take on the world without the constraints of a marketing department, Mark Fisher and Mark Reilly recorded this in the Fishbowl, Fisher's own studio on the outskirts of

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. This record saw a new group of session musicians participating in the production, although Robin Jones was still around to record percussive layers that support the songs' rhythm structure.

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had died, so the brass section had to be reorganised as well, giving the record a different timbre. To be sold, the record needed distributors, which were found for

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and

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, but only JVC-Victor in Japan really made some headway in promoting them to the local audience, and the album went

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there. Due to lack of

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it failed to have any major impact in the rest of the world. This was not due to particularly bad material, as songs like "You and I" and "Head over Heels" are some of the best Fisher wrote. Nevertheless, the lack of backing of a major label was certainly showing.

Track listing

All songs written by Matt Bianco except as indicated. #"Our Love" (4:50) #"

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" (Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B. B. Dickerson,

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, Charles Miller,

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, Howard E. Scott) (4:45) #"You and I" (4:14) #"Buddy Love" (4:37) #"Can You Feel It" (4:43) #"I Need You Now" (5:15) #"Head Over Heels" (4:15) #"Your Destiny" (4:35) #"Another Time Another Place" (6:30)

Notes

External links

Matt Bianco's detailed discography
1994 albums Matt Bianco albums {{Latin-album-stub