Kalik

Baha Men: Nehemiah Hield (vocals); Fred Ferguson, Herschel Small (guitar, keyboards); Jeffrey Chea (keyboards); Isiah Taylor (bass); Colyn "Mo" Grant (drums); Anthony "Monks" Flowers (percussion).
Additional personnel: Tony Curtis (guitar); Eddie Rolle, Andrea Martin, Abigail Charlow (background vocals); Gregory "Pepper" Clarke, Josh Chipman, Terran "Bappy" David, Andrew Burrows, Godfrey Dorsette.
Producers: Kendall Stubbs, Ben Wolff, Andy Dean, Terry Manning.
Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas and House Of Music, West Orange, New Jersey.
Personnel: Nehemiah Hield (vocals); Fred Ferguson (guitar, keyboards); Tony Curtis (guitar); Jeffrey Chea, Herschel Small (keyboards); Lenny Kravitz (drums, background vocals); Colyn Grant (drums); Anthony Flowers (percussion); Abigail Charlow, Eddie Rolle, Andrea Martin (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: David Domanich.
Audio Remixer: Tommy D .
Recording information: Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas; House Of Music Inc., West Orange, NJ; Sea-Saint Recording Studios.
When one of your songs was written and produced by Lenny Kravitz, chances are that you aren't providing hardcore Afro-Caribbean music, and, to be sure, Kalik is hardly that. Instead, the Baha Men ("Baha" is short for the Bahamas, where the group was formed) blend Afro-Caribbean elements with urban contemporary, dance-pop, and hip-hop on a CD that ranges from the creative to the contrived. Some of the tunes are too safe for their own good--think of Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" and you can get an idea where the Bahamas natives are coming from on some of the more innocuous tunes. But when the Baha Men are creative, their creativity pays off. "Sunny Day," the song that Kravitz contributed, has a feel-good vibe recalling early 1970s soul, and equally appealing are the new jack swing-influenced "Crazy over You" and a funky remake of Fats Domino's "I'm Walking." Kalik isn't a gem, but it certainly has its moments. ~ Alex Henderson