Unusual Suspects (Julia Fordham and Paul Reiser album)

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Unusual Suspects
Julia Fordham and Paul Reiser Unusual Suspects album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Julia Fordham and Paul Reiser
Released2010
Studio88Keys Music, Silver Lake, California
Label Muttley Bosco
Producer Steven Argila
Julia Fordham chronology
China Blue
(2008)		Unusual Suspects
(2010)		Under the Rainbow
(2013)

Unusual Suspects is an album by English singer-songwriter Julia Fordham and American comedian, actor, writer, and musician Paul Reiser. It was released in 2010. The album's ten songs are sung by Fordham, who also wrote the lyrics, [1] while Reiser provides the piano playing and wrote the music. [1]

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format widely used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Julia Fordham British singer-songwriter

Julia Fordham is a British singer-songwriter. Her professional career started in the early 1980s, under the name "Jules Fordham", as a backing singer for Mari Wilson and Kim Wilde, before signing a recording contract of her own later that decade. Fordham is now based in California.

Paul Reiser American actor and comedian

Paul Reiser is an American comedian, actor, writer, and musician. He is best known for his roles as Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom My Two Dads, Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom Mad About You, Carter Burke in the 1986 film Aliens, and more recently as Jim Neiman in the 2014 film Whiplash and Doug Getty in the Amazon Video series Red Oaks'. Reiser is ranked 77th on Comedy Central's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time". The name of Reiser's production company, Nuance Productions, is inspired by one of his lines in the film Diner (1982), in which his character explains his discomfort with the word "nuance".

Contents

Background

Before the 'unusual' collaboration between the two came about, Reiser was asked in an interview who he listened to in the car; he replied "Julia Fordham", after hearing a song by the singer whilst driving and being captivated by her voice. [2] This led to Fordham contacting Reiser to thank him. [2] Years later, the two coincidentally met at a movie screening and Reiser had the idea of collaborating, as he had already started writing music, to which Fordham agreed. [2]

The album's first single, "UnSung Hero", pays tribute to US troops serving overseas, and their families who offer support from home. [1]

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America. It consists of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and forms military policy with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out. All five armed services are among the seven uniformed services of the United States.

Track listing

All tracks written by Julia Fordham (lyrics) and Paul Reiser (music).

  1. "You Keep Me On My Feet"
  2. "Fine"
  3. "Shadow"
  4. "UnSung Hero"
  5. "Good Ship"
  6. "Stolen Kiss"
  7. "Walking Shoes"
  8. "Say Hey Kid"
  9. "Trusted"
  10. "Minefield"

Personnel

Adapted from the Unusual Suspects liner notes. [3]

Musicians

Mark Ware Isham is an American musician. A trumpeter and synthesist, he works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a film composer, having worked on films and television series, including The Hitcher,Point Break, Of Mice and Men, Warrior, Nell, Blade,Crash, The Lucky One and Once Upon a Time.

Production

Dave Collins (audio engineer) American sound mastering engineer

Dave Collins is an American Grammy Award winning mastering engineer. He has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including Alice in Chains, Metallica, Soundgarden, Weezer, Grateful Dead, Madonna, Linkin Park, The Police, Porno for Pyros, Oingo Boingo, Alice Cooper, KMFDM, Sepultura, Puscifier, Chris Cornell, Bon Jovi, Madonna, Buckcherry, Monster Magnet, Sting, Flogging Molly, Bad Religion, Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Chevelle and Bruce Springsteen.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Julia Fordham And Paul Reiser Collaborate On Unusual Suspects « American Songwriter". 23 September 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Reiser, Paul (21 September 2010). "For a Song" . Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  3. ↑ Unusual Suspects (liner notes). Julia Fordham and Paul Reiser. Muttley Bosco. 2010.CS1 maint: others (link)
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