My new fave: The 2nd Karen Carpenter LP redone tracks produced by Phil Ramone
MY FAVE new CD KAREN CARPENTER #METWO on Youtube https://youtu.be/BYtoS9ksohE <#METWO The remaining songs of Karen Carpenter Solo - These songs would have been mixed for her second LP had A&M sanctioned the release of her first in 1980. All of these songs have been edited, instrumentation added and cleaned from an initial cassette leak of demos recorded with Phil Ramone 1979-80 . All of Karen's remaining demos from these sessions had been leaked onto the internet in 1996. This is not an official release but a more concrete and concise idea of what Ramone & Karen were trying to create. In a separate interview from his New York office, producer Phil Ramone discussed his and Karen's objective on the album. "We were thinking two things: How do we make a record that doesn't sound like the Carpenters, and what could we say lyrically in these songs that has a more mature attitude?" Richard Carpenter remembers giving Karen a mixed, but essentially lukewa