Right Here, Right Now: The Collaboration of a Career: Giorgio Moroder’s first album of original material for 30 years, featuring Kylie Minogue.
…………YES HE of legendary 1970s true symphonic disco, composer and producer of the 12-minute dance-floor ode to the orgasm Love To Love You Baby, that launched the career of Donna Summer (some three years prior to I Feel Love), could well be about to save the flagging sales of another gay hip-wiggling favourite Miss Kylie Minogue.
As Moroder prepares to release his first album of original material in more than 30 years, hot on the heels of his recent Daft Punk collaboration, the influential producer most commercially remembered for I Feel Love, Call Me (with Blondie) and Together in Electric Dreams has dropped his Minogue led floor-filler online this week.
Right Here, Right Now certainly borrows its score from the Daft Punk school of electronic burps and trills, but the unmistakable vocals of our adopted antipodean ramp up both the track and her own (surprising) range, not merely by a notch, but through the studio roof.
In a similar vein to the new Madonna material, the Moroder/Minogue partnership shoves our Kylie back into the recording spotlight with a track that knocks the wind out of anything and everything she’s released since the 2000s Your Disco Needs You, itself a pink favourite album track not scheduled for a single release in the UK, as the British record company considered it too gay. A true story. It’s even better than the perhaps-overrated Can’t Get You Out Of My Head. And about time too.
After the disappointing performance and indeed quality of Kylie’s recent Kiss Me Once album, Moroder demonstrates an ability to push an artist in a direction that frankly shames Pharrell. Perhaps their latest collaborations will nudge both Minogue and Ciccone alike to reflect upon ‘the Williams years’ with a critical eye in future. (Minogue most notably ignored I Was Gonna Cancel on her recent tour, one in the nuts for Pharrell and her Madge-sty would be wise to consider doing the same.)
Right Here, Right Now will have homosexual men — and possibly other music fans, but unlikely — slapping their heads whilst yelling “but of course, Moroder and Minogue, why didn’t we think of it sooner”.
It’s definitely worth the wait and with material featuring Sia and Britney right around the corner, at the exuberantly youthful age of 74, 2015 could well be Moroder’s year. In the words of the late and forgiven Donna Summer; “it’s so good, it’s so good, it’s so good, it’s so good, it’s SO good”.
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