Lee Tracy & Isaac Manning - Is It What You Want (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

As the sun sets on a quaint East Nashville house, a young man bares a piece of his soul. Facing the camera, sporting a silky suit jacket/shirt/slacks/fingerless gloves ensemble that announces "singer" before he's even opened his mouth, Lee Tracy Johnson settles onto his stage, the front yard. He sways to the dirge-like drum machine pulse of a synth-soaked slow jam, extends his arms as if gaining his balance, and croons in affecting, fragile earnest, "I need your love… oh baby…" Dogs in the yard next door begin barking. A mysterious cardboard robot figure, beamed in from galaxies unknown and affixed to a tree, is less vocal. Lee doesn't acknowledge either's presence. He's busy feeling it, arms and hands gesticulating. His voice rises in falsetto over the now-quiet dogs, over the ambient noise from the street that seeps into the handheld camcorder's microphone, over the recording of his own voice played back from a boombox off-camera. After six minutes the single, continuous shot ends. In this intimate creative universe there are no re-takes. There are many more music videos to shoot, and as Lee later puts it, "The first time you do it is actually the best. Because you can never get that again. You expressing yourself from within." "I Need Your Love" dates from a lost heyday. From some time in the '80s or early '90s, when Lee Tracy (as he was known in performance) and his music partner/producer/manager Isaac Manning committed hours upon hours of their sonic and visual ideas to tape. Embracing drum machines and synthesizers – electronics that made their personal futurism palpable – they recorded exclusively at home, live in a room into a simple cassette deck. Soul, funk, electro and new wave informed their songs, yet Lee and Isaac eschewed the confinement of conventional categories and genres, preferring to let experimentation guide them.

Tracklist:
1. Rock This Mother (00:29)
2. Talk to Me Girl (05:22)
3. You Can Find Me (01:03)
4. Check This Out (00:05)
5. Jesus Going to Clean House (05:29)
6. Hope You Understood (01:09)
7. Is It What You Want (03:35)
8. Love Is Everlasting (04:28)
9. This Is Hip-Hop Art (00:35)
10. Opposite of Love (04:25)
11. Do You Know What I Mean (00:57)
12. Saving All My Love for You (03:36)
13. Look out Here I Come (00:15)
14. Girl You Always Talking (04:49)
15. Have a Great Day (00:25)
16. Take My Hand (01:14)
17. I Need Your Love (06:26)
18. Your Town (00:30)
19. Talk Around Town (05:11)
20. Booty Head / Take a Little Walk (02:12)
21. I Love My Mama (03:54)
22. I Never Found Anyone Like You (01:21)


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