Oasis (Roberta Flack album)

Oasis
Studio album by Roberta Flack
Released	November 1, 1988
Recorded	1988
Genre	R&B, soul
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack chronology
Greatest Hits (1984) Oasis (1988) Set the Night to Music (1991)
Singles from Oasis
"Oasis" Released: October 30, 1988 "Uh Uh Ooh Ooh Look Out Here It Comes" Released: March 23, 1989 "Shock to My System" Released: July 19, 1989

Professional ratings

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
People	(favourable)[2]

Oasis is Roberta Flack's first solo album of newly recorded songs since 1982's I'm the One. (Subsequent to her 1983 duet album with Peabo Bryson: Born to Love, Flack had with producer Ahmet Ertegun in 1985 recorded fourteen lesser known mid-twentieth century R&B songs but the tracks, intended for a Miss Melody and the Uptown Harlem Stompers album, were not completed to the satisfaction of Flack who put the project "on hold": the tracks remain unreleased.)^[3] Released 1 November 1988, Oasis features the number-one U.S. singles, "Oasis" (R&B), and "Uh-uh Ooh-ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)" (Dance/Club Play).^[4]

Track listing[edit]

1. "Oasis" (Marcus Miller, Mark Stephens) - 6:09
2. "All Caught Up in Love" (Siedah Garrett, Marvin Hamlisch) - 4:06
3. "Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) - 4:40
4. "Shock to My System" ; Duet with Simon Climie (Franne Golde, Andy Goldmark, Dennis Lambert) - 4:24
5. "You Who Brought Me Love" (Andy Goldmark) - 4:00
6. "Something Magic" (Marcus Miller, Mark Stephens) - 4:04
7. "And So It Goes" (Roberta Flack, Maya Angelou, Barry Miles) - 3:34
8. "You Know What It's Like" (Roberta Flack, Barry Miles, Brenda Russell) - 4:45
9. "And So It Goes (Reprise)" (Roberta Flack, Maya Angelou, Barry Miles) - 1:00
10. "My Someone to Love" (Roberta Flack, Marcus Miller) - 5:51
11. "(His Name) Brazil" (Roberta Flack, Henry Gaffney, Andy Goldmark) - 4:51

Personnel[edit]

• Roberta Flack – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 7, 9, 10), acoustic piano (10)
• Marcus Miller – keyboards (1, 10), bass (1, 6, 10), backing vocals (1, 6, 10), synthesizers (6)
• Jason Miles – synthesizer programming (1, 4, 5, 10), keyboards (4, 5), additional synthesizer programming (6, 8)
• Michael Omartian – keyboards (2), drums (2), arrangements (2)
• Randy Kerber – keyboards (3, 11), synthesizers (7, 8, 9), synthesizer programming (11)
• Michael Boddicker – synthesizers (3)
• John Barnes – keyboards (4), synthesizer programming (4)
• Andy Goldmark – keyboards (4, 5, 11), synthesizer programming (4, 5, 11), drum programming (4, 11), instrumental arrangements (4), drum machine (5)
• Greg Phillinganes – keyboards (4, 5, 11), synthesizer programming (4, 5, 11)
• J. Peter Robinson – keyboards (4, 5, 11), synthesizer programming (4, 5, 11)
• Jeff Bova – synthesizer programming (6)
• Barry Miles – synthesizers (7, 9), arrangements (7, 8, 9), LinnDrum (8), sequencing (8), electric piano (10)
• Jeff Lorber – keyboards (11), synthesizer programming (11)
• Dann Huff – guitar (2)
• Michael Landau – guitar (3, 7, 8, 9)
• Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar (4, 11)
• Earl Klugh – acoustic guitar solo (7, 9)
• Chieli Minucci– guitar (11)
• Neil Stubenhaus – bass (3, 7, 9)
• Nathan East – bass (11)
• Harvey Mason – drums (3)
• Jimmy Bralower – drum overdubs (4)
• Steve Ferrone – drum overdubs (4)
• John Robinson – drums (7, 8, 9), Forat F16 (8)
• Buddy Williams – drums (8), Forat F16 (8)
• Steve Gadd – drums (10)
• Steve Thornton – percussion (1, 6)
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion (3, 5, 11)
• Michael Fisher – percussion (7, 8, 9)
• Don Alias – percussion (10)
• David Sanborn – alto sax solo (1)
• Larry Williams – saxophone solo (2), keyboards (5), synthesizer programming (5), synthesizers (7, 8, 9)
• Dan Higgins – saxophone (3, 8)
• Roger Byam – tenor sax solo (10)
• Jerry Hey – trumpet (3), arrangements (3, 7, 8, 9)
• Dennis Collins – backing vocals (1)
• Lani Groves – backing vocals (1)
• Chude Mondlane – backing vocals (1)
• Mark Stevens – backing vocals (1, 6)
• Brenda White-King – backing vocals (1)
• Phil Perry – backing vocals (3, 7, 8, 9)
• Simon Climie – lead vocals (4)
• Tawatha Agee – backing vocals (6)
• Yvonne Lewis – backing vocals (6)
• Lori Ann Velez – backing vocals (6)
• Gabrielle Goodman – backing vocals (7, 8, 9, 11)
• George Duke – backing vocals (11)
• Robert Henley – backing vocals (11)

Production[edit]

• Marcus Miller – producer (1, 6, 10)
• Michael Omartian – producer (2)
• Jerry Hey – producer (3, 7, 8, 9)
• Andy Goldmark – producer (4, 5, 11)
• Barry Miles – producer (7, 8, 9)
• Roberta Flack – executive producer (1, 4-11)
• Quincy Jones – executive producer (2, 3)
• Bibi Green – production coordinator (1, 6, 10)
• Scott Mabuchi – engineer (1, 6)
• Bruce Miller – engineer (1, 6, 10)
• David Ahlert – engineer (2)
• Terry Christian – engineer (2), mixing (2)
• Mick Guzauski – engineer (3), mixing (3)
• David Dachinger – engineer (4, 5, 11)
• Neil Dorfsman – engineer (4)
• Jay Rifkin – engineer (4)
• Joe Ferla – engineer (5)
• Barney Perkins – engineer (5)
• Eric Calvi – engineer (7, 8, 9)
• Daren Klein – engineer (7, 9)
• Bob Brockmann – engineer (11)
• Glen Holguin – engineer (11)
• Steve Peck – engineer (11)
• Eugene "UE" Nastasi – assistant engineer (1, 5, 6)
• Corky Stasisk – assistant engineer (1)
• Doug Carlton – assistant engineer (2)
• Richard McKernan – assistant engineer (3), engineer (7, 8, 9)
• Paul Angelli – assistant engineer (4)
• Jack Rizzo – assistant engineer (4)
• Jack Rouben – assistant engineer (4)
• Richard Joseph – assistant engineer (5)
• Angela Piva – assistant engineer (5)
• Bridget Daly – assistant engineer (6)
• Danny Mormando – assistant engineer (6)
• Mike Kloster – assistant engineer (7, 8, 9)
• Tom Durack – assistant engineer (10)
• Ray Bardani – mixing (1, 6, 10)
• Tommy Vicari – mixing (4, 5, 11)
• Bill Schnee – mixing (7, 8, 9)
• Debi Cornish – mix assistant (1, 10), assistant engineer (4)
• Jim Dineen – mix assistant (4, 11)
• Pat MacDougall – mix assistant (5)
• Wade Jaynes – mix assistant (7, 8, 9)
• Ryan Dorn – mix assistant (11)
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Sylvia Rhone – album coordinator
• Bob Defrin – art direction, design
• Tom Feelings – cover portrait

Studios

• Recorded and Mixed at Right Track Recording, Electric Lady Studios, Unique Recording Studios, Marathon Studios and Skyline Studios (New York City, New York); Master Sound Astoria (Astoria, New York); Conway Studios and Sunset Sound (Hollywood, California); Bill Schnee Studios (North Hollywood, California); Lighthouse Studios (Los Angeles, California); Homeland Studio (London, UK).
• Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California).

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