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Sketchbook is a reset of sorts for Fantasia, newly independent after racking up a full career's worth of accomplishments -- a platinum debut, three additional Top Ten albums, and a Grammy among them -- with majors J and RCA. She's backed by a licensing deal with BMG and now has her own label, Rock Soul, named after the self-termed sound she has been plugging for years. Fantasia co-wrote all the material and is also credited as co-producer with new associate Jevon Hill, a studio veteran who has worked with high-profile artists ranging from Tamar Braxton and Tank to James Fortune and Tye Tribbett. The core of additional writers is connected to gospel more than any other genre, yet the set mixes it up as much as any previous Fantasia album. Contrary to the title, nothing sounds incomplete or even off-the-cuff. It's more like a lookbook. Skittering percussion and other mechanical, trap-styled production touches are most common, utilized to best effect on the slick testimonial "Holy Ghost" and the gospel-blues finale on which Fantasia duets with her mother, Mama Diane (Diane Barrino). She switches to early-'90s adult contemporary mode for the sparkling ballad "Enough," one of her sturdiest love ballads. A couple other cuts resemble peer tributes. Tearful throwback belter "Bad Girl" is Jazmine Sullivan to the core. "PTSD" is artful pop-R&B, a slinking slow jam that, heard from a distance, could be mistaken for the work of Dawn Richard (at least until T-Pain provides the album with some impulsive humor, exclaiming "Good god almighty, great googly moogly!"). There's also one rocker, the blaring intervention "Warning."
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Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer, Keyboards - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - Jimmy Hill, Drums - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Arthur Jones, Bass - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Candace Wakefield, Composer, Background Vocals - Jovan Dawkins, Composer - Alexis Hill, Keyboards - Jean Semexant, Composer, Producer - Joey Ziegelbauer, Lead Guitar - Owen Gessler, Engineer - Fantasia Taylor, Composer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - Bernie Grundman, Engineer - T-Pain, FeaturedArtist - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Fantasia Barrino, Composer - Faheem Rasheed Najm, Composer - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Jawad Mills, Engineer - Eric Mackey, Composer - Jean Semexant, Composer, Producer - Owen "OG" Gessler, Mixer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Arthur Jones, Composer, Producer - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Candace Wakefield, Composer, Background Vocals - Jovan Dawkins, Composer - Fantasia Taylor, Composer - Bernard Glover, Composer, Producer - Owen "OG" Gessler, Engineer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Fantasia Barrino, Composer - Stanley Black, Producer - Arthur Jones, Bass - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Jimmy Hill Jr., Drums - Danielle Davis, Composer - Jerome Baylor, Composer - Alexis Hill, Keyboards - Thomas Laskey, Producer, Guitar - Owen "OG" Gessler, Engineer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - PHIL TAN, Engineer - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Bill Zimmerman, Engineer - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Jerome Baylor, Composer - Danni Baylor, Composer, Background Vocals - Fantasia Taylor, Composer - Tom Laskey, Composer, Producer - Owen "OG" Gessler, Engineer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - Theodore Thomas, Composer, Producer - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Amber Bullock, Background Vocals - Carmael Frith, Composer, Producer - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Jawad Mills, Engineer - Y'Anna Crawley, Background Vocals - Fantasia Taylor, Composer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Candace Wakefield, Composer, Background Vocals - Jovan Dawkins, Composer - Kendall Taylor, Composer - Jean Semexant, Composer, Producer - Owen Gessler, Engineer - Fantasia Taylor, Composer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Candace Wakefield, Composer, Background Vocals - Jovan Dawkins, Composer - Kendall Taylor, Composer - Jean Semexant, Producer - Owen Gessler, Engineer - Fantasia Taylor, Composer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - PHIL TAN, Engineer - Bianca Atterberry, Composer, Background Vocals - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Bill Zimmerman, Engineer - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Jean Semexant, Composer, Producer - Owen Gessler, Engineer - Fantasia Taylor, Composer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Jerome Baylor, Composer - Danni Baylor, Composer, Background Vocals - Jean Semexant, Composer, Producer - Owen Gessler, Engineer - Fantasia Taylor, Composer - Meachum Clarke and Company, Choir
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Jevon Hill, Composer, Producer, Keyboards - Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - Jimmy Hill, Drums - PHIL TAN, Engineer - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Arthur Jones, Bass - Bill Zimmerman, Engineer - Stanley Green, Composer, Producer - Jimmy Hill Jr., Composer, Producer - Jerome Baylor, Composer - Danni Baylor, Composer, Background Vocals - Alexis Hill, Keyboards - Joey Ziegelbauer, Lead Guitar - Owen Gessler, Engineer - Fantasia Taylor, Composer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Peter Mokran, MixingEngineer - Dave James, Producer - John Armstrong, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Colin Leonard, Engineer - Fantasia, MainArtist - Reginald Scriven, Composer - KJ Scriven, Producer - Mama Diane, FeaturedArtist - Arieas Lee, Engineer - Michael Izzard, Engineer
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Album review
Sketchbook is a reset of sorts for Fantasia, newly independent after racking up a full career's worth of accomplishments -- a platinum debut, three additional Top Ten albums, and a Grammy among them -- with majors J and RCA. She's backed by a licensing deal with BMG and now has her own label, Rock Soul, named after the self-termed sound she has been plugging for years. Fantasia co-wrote all the material and is also credited as co-producer with new associate Jevon Hill, a studio veteran who has worked with high-profile artists ranging from Tamar Braxton and Tank to James Fortune and Tye Tribbett. The core of additional writers is connected to gospel more than any other genre, yet the set mixes it up as much as any previous Fantasia album. Contrary to the title, nothing sounds incomplete or even off-the-cuff. It's more like a lookbook. Skittering percussion and other mechanical, trap-styled production touches are most common, utilized to best effect on the slick testimonial "Holy Ghost" and the gospel-blues finale on which Fantasia duets with her mother, Mama Diane (Diane Barrino). She switches to early-'90s adult contemporary mode for the sparkling ballad "Enough," one of her sturdiest love ballads. A couple other cuts resemble peer tributes. Tearful throwback belter "Bad Girl" is Jazmine Sullivan to the core. "PTSD" is artful pop-R&B, a slinking slow jam that, heard from a distance, could be mistaken for the work of Dawn Richard (at least until T-Pain provides the album with some impulsive humor, exclaiming "Good god almighty, great googly moogly!"). There's also one rocker, the blaring intervention "Warning."
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:43:51
- Main artists: Fantasia
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B Soul
© 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 Rock Soul, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
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