...two more brilliant slices of heavy afrorock to get the week started. both this tracks come from the extremely rare and highly sought after marijata lp entitled "this is marijata" the album goes for astronomical prices on the bay every time it is listed. check it out here.
whitefield brothers- safari strut...what a great video? makes me want to pack up and leave for foreign lands. mental track as well. prob the best off the earthology album.
holy smokes! genghis than just posted a link to down load budos band III. perfect blend of heavy funk, mind blowing afrobeat and groovy jazz vibrations. get over there and download it right now. too good to miss.
late night? trying to find heavy green arrows songs. letting down the people. but hey..........this is one of my favorite songs ive ever heard. it heavy mental business. im kind of scared to unleash it on the world. play too many times on the live wire juke kick
6.12.2010
the golden sounds from cameroon coming though with a funky afrobeat number. check the footage from 77' its hype.
another score from my trip to m-theory's used bins yesterday. karl hector and the malcouns ablum sahara swing. heavy heavy, laced with big drum breaks and thick bass lines...
karl hector and the malcouns-followed path
Produced by Jay Whitefield
Afrodelic Kraut Funk from the minds behind the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers.
Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics’ percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany.
Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7-inch, from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns.
Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich- based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not “world music” but that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on “the one.” now-again
The term "Sons of Lite" comes from the Ancient Egyptian Mystery System, a center of organized culture, like modern Universities. The Egyptians had 3 grades of Mystery System students: Mortals (probationary students who were instructed, but who had yet experienced the inner vision) Intelligences (those who had attained inner vision) and The Creators or Sons of Lite (those who had experienced true spiritual consciousness). -ubiquity
scored a copy of this album today in the used bins at m-theory records for next to nothing. this with a couple other gems hiding in there overlooked made my sunday even better. happy mothers day. love you mom.
With the reissue in 2000 of Let the Sun Shine In, Ubiquity's Luv N' Haight imprint managed to unearth yet another gem from the diminishing frontier of out of print rare groove. Originally released by California's Bay Area act Sons and Daughters of Lite during the early '70s, the album had long been a desirable item for music fans who like their jazz, funk, and world styles all tossed into one category-free pot. Rare groove may be the descriptive catch phrase, but the boundaries are blurred on Let the Sun Shine In, with a variety of influences intermingling and informing one another. Marc Smith's thick, supple bass continually dips and bobs around the dense textures mapped out by his bandmates. Distinguished percussionist Babatunde and bandleader Basuki Bala pepper the rhythmic foundations with sparkling vibes and chattering congas and bongos that can often drive the music into Latin territory. Not everything here works. The cheery vocal choir that caps many of the songs, for instance, may dissuade those averse to '70s fusion, whatever the shade. Any faults are easily forgivable, however, when you consider the quality of the solos delivered by Babatunde, Bala, and trumpeter Marty Payne on songs like "Operation Feed Yourself," "A Real Thing," and album closer "Darkuman Junktion." Most of this music sounds entirely fresh, even upon reissue nearly 30 years after the fact. ~ Nathan Bush
