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1LP Vinyl – MOVLP1970

When Sunlight hit the stores in June 1978, it had been more than two years since Hancock last recorded a funk album under his own name. And whereas his early albums on Columbia had spearheaded the involvement of studio postproduction in the creative process, his albums with the V.S.O.P. band and Chick Corea had all been recorded live.

For Sunlight, Hancock returned to the studio and spent almost a year working on the album between August 1977 and May 1978. Most strikingly, it is Hancock’s first vocal album, facilitated by the use of a vocoder, which combines the individual characteristics of a voice with the pitch and phrasing of a synthesizer.