| Declassified | ||||
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| Released | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Funk, acid jazz [1] | |||
| Label | Shanachie [2] | |||
| Producer | Genji Sirasi | |||
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Declassified is an album by the American band Groove Collective, released in 1999. [3] [4]
The album peaked at No. 48 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. [5] The band supported it with a North American tour. [6]
The album was produced by band member Genji Sirasi. [7] At the time of the recording, Groove Collective included 14 members. [8] Declassified contains a cover of the Paul McCartney-penned "Martha My Dear". [9] Lucy Woodward contributed vocals to "Up All Night". [10]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [11] |
| Orange County Register | B+ [12] |
| Pitchfork | 7.1/10 [13] |
| Winnipeg Sun |  [14] |
Pitchfork called Declassified "modern funk that's not afraid to integrate with every other influence held dear by each of its 14 members." [13] The Washington Post thought that the band "are skillful cut-ups, whether they're reconstituting a '70s-funk shuffle ('Up All Night'), toying with what sounds like a PBS-theme fanfare ('Some People'), appropriating Steve Reich's modal shuffle ('Undercover Life') or narcotizing the Beatles' 'Martha My Dear'." [7] The Orange County Register declared that, "were it to lose some of the cloying Spyro Gyra-isms it uses as a crutch, this New York outfit ... would be the tightest bunch of funketeers since the Average White Band, if not P-Funk." [12]
Bass Player wrote: "Ever maturing and enduring, GC shows polish and panache on its latest without abandoning previous experiments with multi-flavored trance-like rhythms." [15] The Philadelphia Inquirer deemed the album "stuttering soul and party-psychedelia creamy with lush melody and Latin grooves." [16] The Boston Herald opined: "Freed by their variety-is-the-spice approach, the New York group is looser and moves better while sharpening its breezy future grooves." [17]
AllMusic wrote that the album "finds the congregation in a most jubilant mood, happy to simply stretch out on a series of infectious singalong jams." [11]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Up All Night" | 4:20 |
| 2. | "Everything Is Changing" | 5:37 |
| 3. | "On a Feeling" | 4:04 |
| 4. | "Some People" | 4:59 |
| 5. | "Valiha" | :45 |
| 6. | "Undercover Life" | 4:27 |
| 7. | "Guara Rumba" | 1:03 |
| 8. | "Crisis" | 7:25 |
| 9. | "End Transmission" | 4:02 |
| 10. | "Sabrosona (Song for Chucho)" | 3:40 |
| 11. | "Nature of a Freak" | 5:14 |
| 12. | "Triage" | 2:09 |
| 13. | "Martha My Dear" | 3:24 |
| 14. | "Sabrosona (Reprise)" | 1:10 |
| 15. | "Mrs. Strangelove" | 3:45 |
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