Bilal – Airtight’s Revenge

Name: Bilal - Airtight’s Revenge
Rating: 3.83 (24 reviews)

Tracklist

1		Cake & Eat It Too Electric Bass – Derick Hodge* Synthesizer, Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Junius Bervine
2		Restart Lead Guitar – Ben "Bananas" O'Neil*
3		All Matter Electric Guitar – Tom Spiker
4		Flying Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass – Freddie Mac* Co-producer – Frederick G. Mcintosh* Drum Programming, Recorded By – Nottz Producer – Nottz Recorded By – D. Sloan*
5		Levels Co-producer – KenBts. Drum Programming – Shafiq Husayn Drum Programming, Synthesizer [Modular], Recorded By – KenBts. Electric Bass – Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner* Producer – Shafiq Husayn Strings [Synth] – Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
6		Little One Producer – Conley "Tone" Whitfield
7		Move On Piano – Robert Glasper Written-By – B. Siegler*
8		Robots Recorded By – Dan Raaf Written-By – S. Ali-O
9		The Dollar Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Robert Glasper Saxophone – Lamont Caldwell Trombone – Jermaine Bryson Trumpet – Leon Jordan Jr. Tuba – Damon Bryson
10		Who Are You Acoustic Guitar – Ben "Bananas" O'Neil* Saxophone – Lamont Caldwell Trombone – Jermaine Bryson Trumpet – Leon Jordan Jr. Written-By – B. Barksdale
11		Think It Over Arranged By [Strings], Strings [Performance] – Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Electric Bass – Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner* Producer – 88 Keys* Written-By – H. Davis III*

Arranged By – Bilal Oliver* (tracks: 9, 11)
Artwork – Brent Rollins The Design Explosion!*
Bass [Synthesizer] – Bilal Oliver* (tracks: 7)
Co-producer – Bilal Oliver* (tracks: 11), Steve McKie (tracks: 8)
Drum Programming – Steve McKie (tracks: 3, 7, 8, 9)
Drums – Conley "Tone" Whitfield (tracks: 6,), Steve McKie (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 7 to 10)
Effects – Chuck Treece (tracks: 3, 8)
Effects [Moog] – Masayuki Hirano (tracks: 4, 5,)
Electric Bass – Conley "Tone" Whitfield (tracks: 2, 3, 6, 8, 10)
Electric Guitar – Chuck Treece (tracks: 2, 3, 8, 9), Mike Severson (2) (tracks: 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11)
Electric Piano [Moog] – Masayuki Hirano (tracks: 1,)
Executive-Producer – Allen Avanessian, Andrew Lojero, Hawk Burns
Guitar – Conley "Tone" Whitfield (tracks: 6, 10)
Human Beatbox – Bilal Oliver* (tracks: 3)
Keyboards – Bilal Oliver* (tracks: 1, 4, 5, 10), Masayuki Hirano (tracks: 2, 8)
Mastered By – Arnold Mischkulnig
Mixed By – Jason Goldstein
Organ – Bilal Oliver* (tracks: 3, 9, 10)
Photography By – Eric Coleman
Piano – Bilal Oliver* (tracks: 2, 5), Conley "Tone" Whitfield (tracks: 6,)
Producer – Bilal Oliver* (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 10), Steve McKie (tracks: 1 to 3, 7, 9, 10)
Recorded By – Conley "Tone" Whitfield (tracks: 6,), Steve McKie (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 11)
Synthesizer – Bilal Oliver* (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 10)
Synthesizer [Nord Lead] – Masayuki Hirano (tracks: 4, 5,)
Vocals [All] – Bilal Oliver*
Written-By – Bilal Oliver*

Gatefold Digipak

	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Airtight’s Revenge (2×LP, Album)	Plug Research	PLG105	US	2010
New Submission	Airtight’s Revenge (CD, Album, Promo)	Plug Research	none	UK	2010
New Submission	Airtight’s Revenge (CD, Album, Promo)	Plug Research	PLG105-P	US	2010
New Submission	Airtight’s Revenge (12×File, AAC, Album, 256 kbps)	Plug Research	none		2010

guzzer May 26, 2011
Some interesting arrangements, especially those tracks with Robert Glaspar involved, some veering towards soft rock but still interesting. But the whole thing is spoiled by awful lyrics. Bilal's heart is in the right place, and he's trying to cover some big issues about poverty, fatherless children and abuse of women, but the lyrics are embarrasingly bad - almost at the level of a teenager trying to write "really deep" poetry. For me it makes the whole thing unlistenable. I'd buy an instrumental version though. Sorry, the lyrics really are that bad