Out Loud

After releasing a pair of solo albums under his own name in the first half of the '80s, and with his old group, Chic, undergoing a long period of inactivity, guitarist Nile Rodgers decided to form a new band. It was a curiously anonymous move, especially since Rodgers was just coming down from the peak of his A-list production jobs (David Bowie, Duran Duran, Madonna, etc.). However, Outloud didn't exactly thrust him into unfamiliar territory: the trio included two musicians who Rodgers knew well: Parisian session synthesist Phillipe Saisse, who'd worked with Rodgers' clients l...