Out of This World (Shakatak album)

Out of This World
Studio album by Shakatak
Released	1983
Recorded	July/August 1983
Studio	Battery Studios (London) Rock City Studios (Surrey)
Genre	Jazz-funk, Crossover
Length	40:08
Label	Polydor
Producer	Nigel Wright
Shakatak chronology
Invitations (1982) Out of This World (1983) Down on the Street (1984)

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Out of This World, released in 1983 on the Polydor label, is the fourth album by English jazz-funk band Shakatak.

All tracks written by William "Bill" Sharpe and Roger Odell.

Side 1:

1. "Dark Is the Night" – 5:28
2. "Don't Say That Again" – 4:46
3. "Slip Away" – 5:19
4. "On Nights Like Tonight" – 5:13

Side 2:

1. "Out of This World" – 5:53
2. "Let's Get Together" – 3:48
3. "If You Could See Me Now" – 6:56
4. "Sanur" – 4:45

• Bill Sharpe – keyboards ^[2]
• Keith Winter – guitars
• George Anderson – bass, backing vocals
• Roger Odell – drums & percussion
• Jill Saward – vocals, lead on "Let's Get Together"
• Norma Lewis – vocals

• Lead vocal on "Nights Like Tonight" – Tracy Ackerman
• Percussion – Simon Morton
• Trumpet – Stuart Brookes
• Saxophone – Martin Dobson
• Brass arrangement – Nigel Wright

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