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Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places

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Released
  
June 1981

Label
  
ZE Records

Release date
  
June 1981

Genres
  
Disco, Rock music

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Recorded
  
Electric Lady Studios, Hit Factory

Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places (1981)
  
Tropical Gangsters (1982)

Artist
  
Kid Creole and the Coconuts

Producers
  
August Darnell, Coati Mundi (co-producer)

Similar
  
Kid Creole and the Coconuts albums, Disco albums

Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places is the second album by Kid Creole and the Coconuts and was released in 1981.

Contents

Overview

Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places is a concept album in the form of a musical travelogue. It was very well received critically upon its release. New York Times pop music critic Robert Palmer called it "an extraordinary album" and "the freshest and most intelligent fusion of pop styles and dance rhythms in a long time". It also was voted one of the best pop albums of the year in the Village Voice's influential Pazz & Jop critics' poll. It was ranked among the top ten "Albums of the Year" for 1981 by NME.

Describing the album's concept to the New York Times, band leader August Darnell said:

Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places was rereleased in 2002 by Universal Island Records with 12" mixes of "Table Manners" and "Que Pasa / Me No Pop I" (although the latter is not the full version. It has been edited down from 7:11 to 6:18). The album replaced the original mix of "Dear Addy" with the 1982 single remix.

Track listing

  • All songs written by August Darnell except as indicated.
  • Personnel

  • Kid Creole
  • Coati Mundi
  • Peter Schott
  • Marc Mazur
  • Carol Colman
  • Andrew Lloyd
  • Winston Grennon
  • Yogi Horton
  • Lori Eastside
  • Adriana Kaegi
  • Cheryl Poirier
  • Don Arnone
  • Dutch Robinson
  • Beverly Britton Brown
  • Don Hamilton
  • Angelica de la Luna
  • Erroll Corn
  • Rubens Bassini
  • Sam Turner
  • Steve Kroon
  • Dave Charles
  • Conjunto Libre
  • Freddie Harris
  • The Charles Lagond's Horns
  • The Jill Jeffe's Streings
  • Dominick Cortese
  • Sal Galina
  • Art direction by Tony Wright

    Songs

    1Going Places3:16
    2In the Jungle
    3Animal Crackers3:33

    References

    Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places Wikipedia