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Product Description Out-of-print in the US! A comprehensive collection of Jones' post-disco work, most of it recorded between 1980 and 1982 in Nassau, Bahamas, with a truly remarkable studio band, including the legendary reggae rhythm team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, alongwith Marianne Faithful collaborator Barry Reynolds on guitar. The songs--which run the gamut from Smokey Robinson to Chrissie Hynde to Johnny Cash--are generally arranged in an innovative, ahead-of-their-time way (echoey yet spare, with lots of deep bass) that owes a bit to dub and in any case provides a perfect backdrop for Jones' Queen of the Undead vocals. Review Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions (Island) draws from the three Jones albums produced by [Chris] Blackwell and played by the All-Stars. Jones bore her status as Diaspora artist proudly, putting across white rock songs and cabaret tunes with few of the emotional signifiers of either Rasta or Pop. -- Spin [Grace Jones'] mannish, sing-speak delivery (imagine a Jamaican Lotte Lenya) bristles with sexual frisson, and driven by Sly & Robbie's cyberdub rhythms on these early-'80s sessions, it made for transgressive dance-floor epics that bridged new- wave chill and "Saturday Night Fever." -- Entertainment Weekly
