Donna Summer – Four Seasons Of Love (1976/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 32:40 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Disco, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Island Mercury
Four Seasons Of Love is Donna Summer’s Gold-certified classic. Reaching the Top Twenty on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums, the recording is a conceptual masterpiece unveiling the story of a love affair. This international smash features the hit singles “Spring Affair” and “Winter Melody”.
One is inclined to resist this package of self-conscious stardom concepts — the LP version sported its own 1977 calendar featuring La Summer dressed up as winter, spring, summer, and Marilyn Monroe vamping on the subway grating (fall, presumably), and the four “seasonal” dancey suites promise more and say less than the typical Summer intimate “touch-me” would deliver without any hype. Fortunately, the music has a mind of its own. The rhythms push and go poof as delicately as ever; the horn section mutes and jazzes the melody; the beats stop, run, and stop again whenever they damn please; and Summer expresses private rapture in falsetto as she smooches, oohs, and ahs onto the mix like lipstick traces. Oh, rapture indeed.
Tracklist:
01. Donna Summer – Spring Affair (08:32)
02. Donna Summer – Summer Fever (08:12)
03. Donna Summer – Autumn Changes (05:30)
04. Donna Summer – Winter Melody (06:29)
05. Donna Summer – Spring Reprise (03:56)