Artist: S.M.V. [STANLEY CLARKE/ MARCUS MILLER/ VICTOR WOOTEN]
Album: THUNDER VINYL REISSUE (2LP)

Release date: 29.07.2022
EAN/UPS: 4050538633085
Media type: LP

Thunder is the debut studio album by supergroup S.M.V., consisted of bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten released in 2008.

SMV is a bass supergroup formed in 2008. The group's name comes from the initials of each of its members, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten. SMV's debut release is the Thunder album. Marcus Miller (bass clarinet, synthesizer, electric bass); Stanley Clarke (acoustic bass, electric bass) and Victor Wooten (electric bass).

Recording sessions took place at Hannibal Studio and Threshold Sound + Vision in Santa Monica, at House of Blues Studios in Encino, at Westlake Studios and Le Gonks West in Los Angeles, at VixMix Studios in Nashville, and at Ryan's Place in Topanga. The entire album was produced by Marcus Miller with co-production by Clarke and Wooten. It features contributions from Antoinette "Butterscotch" Clinton on vocals, George Duke, Ruslan Sirota, Ariel Mann, Chick Corea and Karlton Taylor on keyboards, Ronald Bruner Jr., Poogie Bell, Derico Watson and J. D. Blair on drums, Kevin Ricard on percussion, Michael "Patches" Stewart on trumpet, and Steve Baxter on trombone.

The album peaked at #186 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States.

LP 1:

Maestros de las frecuencias bajas
Thunder
Hillbillies on a Quiet Afternoon

Mongoose Walk
Los Tres Hermanos
Lopsy Lu
Silly Putty (Medley)

LP 2:

Milano
Classical Thump (Jam)
Tutu

Lil’ Victa
Pendulum
“Lemme Try Your Bass” (Interlude)
Grits