Here's to a greater extent than proof that artist/weather-report-mn0000243527">Weather Report genuinely became a to a greater extent than potent, life-affirming musical forcefulness after the departures of its best-known sidemen. Things laid out on an oddly commercial banking concern annotation amongst a popular vocal "Can It Be Done," sung past times artist/carl-anderson-mn0000795408">Carl Anderson, that genuinely lays out artist/weather-reports-mn0000243527">Weather Report's credo, searching for sounds never heard before. Then artist/joe-zawinul-mn0000176859">Joe Zawinul as well as fellowship acquire downward to employment organisation amongst the funky "D-Flat Waltz," marked past times artist/omar-hakims-mn0000472924">Omar Hakim's flamboyantly complex drumming. artist/zawinuls-mn0000176859">Zawinul's synthesizer textures move thicker as well as to a greater extent than flexible amongst the assist of newly-introduced digital instruments, as well as the funk chemical ingredient inwards full general becomes to a greater extent than pronounced than on whatsoever tape since Tale Spinnin'. artist/victor-bailey-mn0000167909">Victor Bailey (bass), who spins his wheels on the championship track, as well as artist/jose-rossy-mn0000221043">Jose Rossy (percussion) stay on board (though artist/rossy-mn0000221043">Rossy left presently thereafter) as well as artist/wayne-shorters-mn0000250435">Wayne Shorter's tenor sax has a rawer, tougher border than it has inwards awhile. Though non quite equally triumphant equally Procession, a triumph nonetheless.
Domino Theory was the 2d album for the Hakim-Bailey-Rossy beat section, as well as Josef Zawinul spoke enthusiastically close it inwards the March 1984 number of Keyboard magazine.
“It’s coming out inwards February,” Zawinul told Greg Armbruster. “We had so much fun making it that it was i of the easiest albums we’ve e'er done. There are 3 alive performances on it, as well as those were done after nosotros had played 84 concerts. Then nosotros went into the studio as well as recorded 4 to a greater extent than songs amongst this feeling from the alive performances. On this album, we’re likewise dealing amongst a question; the firstly vocal is appropriately called ‘Can it Be Done?’, which is sung past times Carl Anderson. We don’t create got whatsoever answers, but nosotros create got questions. The side past times side song, ‘D Flat Waltz,’ is 11 minutes long. After I wrote it, I analyzed it, as well as it’s to a greater extent than or less a Johann Strauss sort of form. There are dissimilar movements as well as there’s some other tune every viii bars, as well as yet, altogether, it industrial plant well. The final vocal on Side H5N1 is ‘The Peasant.’
“Side B opens amongst ‘Predator,’ a Wayne Shorter composition, followed past times ‘Blue Sound, Note Three,’ which my boy Erich named. The tertiary vocal is called ‘Swamp Cabbage,’ past times Wayne. I purpose an accordion-type good on that tune. The final vocal is the championship cut, ‘Domino Theory,’ amongst the drum machine. The album has a strong feeling throughout, a sure enough musical reference that creates the whole feeling. For instance, part of the intro to the real firstly vocal is flora inwards the intro to ‘Blue Sound, Note Three,’ on Side B. I did sure enough background lines on Wayne’s vocal which are continued on ‘Domino Theory.’ You tin brain to the album from firstly to terminate as well as experience a completeness.”
In a 1984 interview for Modern Drummer magazine, Robin Tolleson asked Omar Hakim close his co-producer credit. “Well, producer is such a vague word, but for me it did create got a meaning. I was mixing the record. I create got a groovy involvement inwards studio stuff. All my friends know I’m a fanatic close that stuff… Joe knew I was a fanatic, so he brought me inwards as well as he trusted me a lot. I was real involved. It was genuinely hands-on for all of us. I mixed, as well as made some suggestions close effects, as well as made some organisation suggestions occassionally. I learned so much from Joe as well as Wayne–just their sense of placing sounds inwards the music. What Joe would practise is say, ‘You got it.’ He would acquire out the studio as well as so I would mix it the means I heard it. I would practise a mix, Joe would come upwards dorsum as well as say, ‘Okay, encounter y'all later. Go acquire something to eat,’ as well as and so he would practise something. After that, nosotros would run on it together. Then nosotros would computer program things into the NECAM [a Neve reckoner scheme that could tape sure enough mix settings], as well as practise to a greater extent than things together. Then nosotros would practise panning, as well as gear upwards echoes as well as delays. Like I said, I’m crazy close that stuff, so nosotros had a lot of fun.”
The August 1984 number of Down Beat described Zawinul’s keyboard arsenal at the fourth dimension of Domino Theory. Zawinul’s phase setup included 7 keyboards: an Oberheim 8 Voice, an ARP Quadra, an E-Mu Emulator, a Rhodes Chroma, a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, a Korg Vocoder amongst auxiliary keyboard, as well as a Prophet T-8. The T-8 was Zawinul’s newest instrument, an eight-voice synthesizer amongst a touch-sensitive keyboard. “I create got equally much command equally y'all tin have,” Zawinul said of the T-8. “It’s velocity- as well as touch-sensitive so when y'all acquit on down, y'all tin acquire your ain vibrato; y'all tin preprogram your vibrato as well as speed.” In addition, Zawinul used a Linn LM-1 drum machine, a Sequential Circuits Polysequencer, as well as diverse harmonizers as well as digital delay units.
Zawinul’s keyboard technician Jim Swanson, explained to Down Beat some of the modifications he had made to the Prophet 5. “There’s no other Prophet inwards the footing similar that,” he said. “The means it’s hooked upwards immediately amongst the MIDI is polyphonically. So when I throw [a] switch, it shuts off the good of voices i through four, takes its ain command voltage-out, as well as feeds it dorsum to its command voltage-in so that vocalization i is making no dissonance but sending its command voltage as well as driving vocalization five. So that every novel banking concern annotation y'all play, similar on the Korg [Vocoder] upwards here, volition trigger a banking concern annotation on the Prophet as well as restrain it approximately so y'all acquire that flute-on-top-of-strings effect.” The article went on to depict the equipment inwards Zawinul’s dwelling recording studio: “In his dwelling recording studio he has an Amek 2016B 24-track mixing desk, an Ampex MM-1200 24-track tape recorder, as well as for mix-down an Otari MX5050 two-track machine. He listens to his music through Yamaha as well as Tannoy speakers. And despite his wealth of electronics, inwards the middle of it all, sits a Yamaha acoustic grand piano.”
Track listing
All tracks composed past times Joe Zawinul, except where indicated.
"Can It Be Done" (Wilson Tee) – 4:02
"D Flat Waltz" – 11:10
"The Peasant" – 8:16
"Predator" (Wayne Shorter) – 5:21
"Blue Sound - Note 3" – 6:52
"Swamp Cabbage" (Wayne Shorter) – 5:22
"Domino Theory" – 6:09
Personnel
Josef Zawinul - keyboards as well as synthesizers
Wayne Shorter - saxophones
Omar Hakim - drums
Victor Bailey - bass
José Rossy - percussion
Carl Anderson - vocals on "Can It Be Done"
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