Cajmere presents Walter Phillips Artist: Walter Phillips Title: Sometimes I Do Label: Cajual Format: 12" Cat..No.: CAJ 283 Release date: 8 JULY 2002
Cajual is back. Curtis Jones, aka Green Velvet, aka Cajmere re-starts his highly acclaimed house imprint with a gorgeous piece of vocal house from Walter Phillips. Chicago native Walter Phillips began singing professionally in the early nineties as a backup singer for acts such as Adina Howard, Kool Moe Dee, and the Outhere Brothers. From the success of these collaborations, Phillips gained attention from the legendary R&B act Club Nouveau, eventually becaming a regular member and spent most of the mid nineties recording and touring with the group. Phillips's most widely recognized effort was the 1997 Cajmere hit "Only 4 U" on Cajual Records. His unmistakably smooth singing style helped propel the single to a top ten position on the US Billboard Club charts and a crowd favourite on dancefloors across the globe. Strangely though, Phillips decided to keep his name off the single, fearing that the attention of a dance hit would side track him from focusing on the other R&B projects he had been working on. Fortunately for Cajual, Phillips four years later, has a little different perspective on the music scene. While he has been writing R&B influenced material with such notable talents as Mike Dunn and California based Mo Kutz, Phillips has now decided to plunge into the dance music scene, with a full length LP expected to be released on Cajual later this year. The tentatively self-titled album will combine both house and R&B, featuring the slick production work of Chicago house luminaries Cajmere and Mark Grant, among others. 'Sometimes I Do' is a beautiful taster of what is to come. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]