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Referring to Dornik Leigh's first album simply as promising would be downplaying it. It's a rare debut liable to provoke a mix of admiration and envy from contemporaries, and quite possibly a lengthy queue of prospective collaborators. One peer pleased to uplift Dornik was Jessie Ware, who employed the South London native as a performing drummer and duet partner, then helped him join the PMR roster. Across a two-year period, Dornik scattered a few singles that provoked Michael Jackson comparisons. The series began with the swaying synth-funk ballad "Something About You," where his assured but slightly bashful delivery recalled the MJ of "Butterflies" (which happened to be co-written by fellow U.K. artist Marsha Ambrosius). That initial taste is here, as are most of the supplemental doses that preceded the album. They all fit together for a fluid 40-minute set of sweet modern soul that, accessible as it is, falls to the left of mainstream R&B. Seemingly written with one object of affection in mind, and all about the expression of admiration rather than the detailing of exploits, the lyrics -- and their modest delivery -- evoke the pre-new jack swing era, when the major players in U.K. R&B included Derek Bramble, David Grant, Freeez, and Loose Ends. Dornik gets only a little help. Andrew "Pop" Wansel assists on "Stand in Your Line," a song that's starry-eyed like Elle Varner's "I Don't Care," though certain elements could be mistaken for the work of Rick James or Quadron's Robin Hannibal. "Shadow," a weightless highlight, was written with poet and author Laura Dockrill. Pharrell Williams couldn't be faulted for reacting to it by throwing something out of recognition and jealousy. The ten-percent of the album that isn't a sparkling slow jam or midtempo cut is a swift and uplifting jam that approximates a super session with Dâm-Funk, the-Dream, and 1984 Prince. It leads off -- both a sly fake-out and a hell of a way to open one of 2015's most pleasurable debuts.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Russ Elevado, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Russell Elevado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dornik, Producer, Programmer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 PMR Records
Russ Elevado, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Russell Elevado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dornik, Producer, Engineer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Alex Bonfanti, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 PMR Records
Elroy Powell, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Hal Ritson, Programmer - Andrew Wansel, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Russell Elevado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Richard Adlam, Programmer - Autoro Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dornik, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emmavie Mbongo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 PMR Records
Russ Elevado, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Russell Elevado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Laura Dockrill, ComposerLyricist - Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dornik, Producer, Programmer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 PMR Records
Russell Elevado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dornik, Producer, Programmer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Russ Elevado, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Russell Elevado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Obenewa Aboah, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dornik, Producer, Programmer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 PMR Records
Elroy Powell, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Hal Ritson, Programmer - Andrew Wansel, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Russell Elevado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Richard Adlam, Programmer - Autoro Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dornik, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 PMR Records
Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dornik, Producer, Engineer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Henrik Van Rivers, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2014 PMR Records
Russell Elevado, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ronald Colson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Laura Dockrill, ComposerLyricist - Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jameel Roberts, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Andrew "Pop" Wansel, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Dornik, Producer, Co-Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 PMR Records
Tom Elmhirst, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stefan Heger, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dornik, Producer, Programmer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 PMR Records
Album review
Referring to Dornik Leigh's first album simply as promising would be downplaying it. It's a rare debut liable to provoke a mix of admiration and envy from contemporaries, and quite possibly a lengthy queue of prospective collaborators. One peer pleased to uplift Dornik was Jessie Ware, who employed the South London native as a performing drummer and duet partner, then helped him join the PMR roster. Across a two-year period, Dornik scattered a few singles that provoked Michael Jackson comparisons. The series began with the swaying synth-funk ballad "Something About You," where his assured but slightly bashful delivery recalled the MJ of "Butterflies" (which happened to be co-written by fellow U.K. artist Marsha Ambrosius). That initial taste is here, as are most of the supplemental doses that preceded the album. They all fit together for a fluid 40-minute set of sweet modern soul that, accessible as it is, falls to the left of mainstream R&B. Seemingly written with one object of affection in mind, and all about the expression of admiration rather than the detailing of exploits, the lyrics -- and their modest delivery -- evoke the pre-new jack swing era, when the major players in U.K. R&B included Derek Bramble, David Grant, Freeez, and Loose Ends. Dornik gets only a little help. Andrew "Pop" Wansel assists on "Stand in Your Line," a song that's starry-eyed like Elle Varner's "I Don't Care," though certain elements could be mistaken for the work of Rick James or Quadron's Robin Hannibal. "Shadow," a weightless highlight, was written with poet and author Laura Dockrill. Pharrell Williams couldn't be faulted for reacting to it by throwing something out of recognition and jealousy. The ten-percent of the album that isn't a sparkling slow jam or midtempo cut is a swift and uplifting jam that approximates a super session with Dâm-Funk, the-Dream, and 1984 Prince. It leads off -- both a sly fake-out and a hell of a way to open one of 2015's most pleasurable debuts.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:41:20
- Main artists: Dornik
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal-Island Records Ltd.
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2015 PMR Records ℗ 2015 PMR Records
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