Brandon Coleman gained a lot of experience as a keyboard player with , and (who, by the way, occupies a modest place in Coleman's horn section). Resistance opens with Live For Today, a very expertly arranged disco song that, through the use of a vocoder, is immediately reminiscent of Coleman's greatest source of inspiration . Hancock sang all his vocals himself with the help of a vocoder, a
… microphone coupled to a keyboard that allowed even the worst singers to sing in tune. A precursor to autotune. Coleman also manages to fill an entire album with this voice-in-can. On the first part of Resistance this leads to nice results, when he applies it to genres like boogie, 80s pop and funk. Especially on the Zapp inspired funk of Sexy this leads to an optimal result. The second half, however, gets on the nerves due to the experimental nature and the excessive use of the vocoder. (AD)more
