Elements of Life
by Louie Vega
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 2004
- Label: Vega
- Country: United States
- Length: 25:10
- Community rating: 3.85/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Vega, one half of Masters at Work and nephew of salsa singer H茅ctor Lavoe, built the album as a live-band house record with his Elements of Life ensemble. Guests Blaze and Ursula Rucker open the record on 'Journey's Prelude', while Raul Mid贸n sings the Spanish-language 'Cerca de M铆'.
Genres
Descriptors: groove-laden, soulful, four-on-the-floor, vocal, polished
Tracklist
Credits
- Gene Perez - bass [sadowsky bass], bass [sadowsky]
- Tony Cintron Jr. - drums, drums [live], backing vocals
- Luisito Quintero - percussion, timbales, congas, percussion, vocals [chant], percussion, caj贸n [cajones], congas, cuica [guica], percussion, timbales, bongos, percussion, backing vocals, bata [batas], timbales, percussion, timbales, congas, djembe [yembe], percussion, timbales, congas, percussion, human beatbox [percussion scat]
- Bill Harris - tenor saxophone, flute
- Ursula Rucker - voice [uncredited], written-by [journey's prelude]
- Carlos Henrique - bass, bass [baby]
- Dominic Canza - guitar, guitar, vocals [lingala adlibs], vocals [chant]
- Nico Vega - voice [baby's cry], voice [kids in playground]
- Adam Cruz - art direction, coordinator [project]
- Cynthia Cortes - design, layout
- Steven Barkan - engineer [recording, mix & protools]
- Masa - design [album cover]
- Yas Inoue - engineer [assistant]
- Walter Coelho - engineer [mastering]
- Toshihiro Okamoto - liner notes
- Kyoko Fukuda - liner notes [interpretation]
- DeAlan Wilson - photography by
- Bill Ador - written-by
- Kevin Hedge - written-by
- Franklin Socorro - engineer [recording]
- Ana Martins - written-by
- Dwight Brewster - written-by
- Willie Col贸n - written-by
- Philippe Weiss - engineer [remix]
- DJ Gregory - remix