If It's Magic (With Oil Drone Interlude)
From: Stevie Wonder - If It's Magic
Songs In The Key of Life
Tamla Records – T13 - 340C2
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP & 7" EP
Country: US
Released: 1976
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul, Funk, Jazz-Funk
If it's magic
Then why can't it be everlasting
Like the sun that always shines
Like the poets in this rhyme
Like the galaxies in time?
If it's pleasing
Then why can't it be never leaving
Like the day that never fails
Like on seashores there are shells
Like the time that always tells?
It holds the key to every heart
Throughout the universe
It fills you up without a bite
And quenches every thirst
So, if it's special
Then with it why aren't we as careful
As making sure we dress in style
Posing pictures with a smile
Keeping danger from a child?
It holds the key to every heart
Throughout the universe
It fills you up without a bite
And quenches every thirst
So, if it's magic
Why can't we make it everlasting
Like the lifetime of the sun?
It will leave no heart undone
For there's enough for everyone
Francesca Johnson: vocals
George Lawler: all percussion
Adam Klein: electric bass
Matt Ulury: upright bass
Rob Clearfield: rhodes
Gary Kaler: electric guitar
Women's Choir:
Kate Melchior, Cristina Burack,
Hallie Weiner, Hillary Pearson,
Adria Rice, Catherine Brookman,
Sarah Smith: sopranos
Daphne Nichols, Natalie Chami,
Marie Abel, Kelsea McCarthy,
Starr Busby: altos
FROG Gamelan Members:
Chris Dunlap, Rachel Dalton,
Brent Matusiewicz, Rich Korepanow,
Doug Hudson, Linda Maher,
Andrew Mall, Mel Gonzalez,
Greg O'Drobinak, Barbara Kapp,
Elisabeth Johnson
Patrick: latin percussion,
glitch drone, cymbal crashes,
ambience
All Genres Visited In Cantor's Comb:
(in order, skipping repeats)
Instrumental Hip-Hop
Reggae
Cowboy Movie
Alt-Junk Rock
Ambient - Granular
Minimalism
Electronic
R&B
Digi-reggae
Ambient - Additive
Thrash Metal
Easy Listening
Disco
Trip-hop
New Gamelan
Ambient - Sampled
Drum n Bass
Latin - Merengie
8-bit /Chiptunes
String Quartet
Jazz Band - Shout Chorus
Hippie Bonfire Jam
Indian Devotional
Glitch-hop
Ambient - Drone
Sound Sculpture
Hip-Hop
African
Dub
Ambient - Resonances
Cool Jazz
80’s New Wave
Polka
Piano Solo
Funk
EDM
Drone
Techno
Dubstep
Ambient - Swell
Soul
Process Music
Dance
Orchestral - Romantic
Irish
Persian
Klezmer
Zydeco
Indian - Bollywood
Latin - Cha Cha
Drone Metal
70’s Pop
Gospel Rock
80’s Pop
Eclectica
Mambo
Ska
House
World Beat
Ambient - Wash
Classic Bluegrass
Indie Rock
70’s Instrumental Funk
Reggaeton / Dancehall
Hawaiian
Ambient - Subtractive
Pandiatonic Chord