Fantastic funkiness! Although Les Baxter's best known for his easy
listening work in the late 50s/early 60's, this 1969 biker flick
soundtrack is a motherlode of funky funky tracks, and a veritable
cornucopia of breakbeats! Highlights include the classics "Hogin'
Machine" and "Hot Wind", but there's lots of other nice ones like "Soul
Groove" and "Scoobee Doo". The drums are nice and hard, and there's
plenty of fuzzy fuzzy guitar to go around nicely! A few tracks have
vocals, but the instrumentals more than make up for any weak spots.
Essential.
This isn't your everyday sci-fi animé score - Yuji Ohno's classy
compositions for this 1970s TV series are more inspired by jazz and pop
than the futuristic world inhabited by the characters. imagine a world
of New York cops and private eyes, filtered through an eastern eye and
transported to Japanese animation - that might get you in the direction
of these masterful compositions. Easy as it is to make such claims, we
feel this must have been an inspiration for a certain pair of French
robots when they set about putting together their pop-tinged second
album. Let it inspire you today, and step into the future.By Bleep
Composer and multi-instrumentalist is a seminal yet under-recognized
artist on the Nigerian music scene of the 1970s. Though he recorded nine
albums in Africa, the U.S., and U.K., Shango is the only one currently available. Recorded in 1974, Peter King's Shango is a mixture of hard African rhythms, James Brown-styled
funk, jazzed-up horn arrangements, and political messages.
From the
standpoint of the Lagos scene, the album is a classic of the period
rivaling virtually anything that Fela or Tony Allen were putting across at the time. With King
blowing deep-groove soul and out jazz saxophone solos above the chants,
the music becomes a boiling pot of hip-shaking sexiness and rage. King
being a formally trained musician outside of Nigeria (one of the
schools he attended was the Berklee College of Music), his conception of
harmony is revolutionary as he strides blues, R&B, soul, post-bop
jazz, whole-tone variations, and counterpoint to edgily shift the focus
of each tune on the set -- note the sweet soul blowing on "Prisoner of
Law" that becomes a big band extrapolation of seven shades in the key of
C.
The title track choogles along, burning underneath with a series of
percussive contrapuntal moves that accent a bassline already fragmenting
under the power of the groove, and "Freedom Dance" takes the Brown
ethic of overdriven funked-up brass aesthetics into territory that
reflects both Eastern repetitive chanting and the gospel shout and roll
of Ray Charles.
There isn't a weak second here, not a maudlin note. Everything here is
so deeply blue it's the brightest black you've ever heard.
Born 13 December 1936 in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia, presently Slovakia). Exiled to Sweden in 1968. Wife of Zdeněk Kratochvíl. Performing in hotels in Bratislava together with band Combo Gustáva Offermana, later with Bratislavské Combo.In 1966 appeared at 2nd International Jazz Festival in Prague with Pavel Polanský Quartet
The best sort of Hammond Explosion you could hope for – a blast of rare
funky 45s from Spanish organ maestro Jou Cogra – a player who's got the
soul of American organists of the 60s, but who also easily grabs some of
the wilder sounds used by British players during the psychedelic years!
Imagine Jimmy McGriff on acid, and you'll get part of the vibe here –
because the tunes groove nicely at the core, but often blow out the
Leslie speakers with their rumbling basslines or mad keyboard flourishes
– served up here on a set of 15 cuts from Jou's rare singles of the
early 70s.By Dusty
Η Marie Rotrova (σήμερα θεωρείται κάτι σαν την δική μας Χάρις Αλεξίου)
ήταν μόλις 21 ετών όταν αναδείχτηκε από ένα διαγωνισμό ταλέντων. Λίγο
αργότερα εμφανίστηκε σε ένα τηλεοπτικό show στην Πράγα, το οποίο της
έδωσε την ευκαιρία να τραγουδήσει στο κορυφαίο Night club του
ξενοδοχείου Yalta. Όταν έγινε μέλος των Flamingo Group το 1969 είχε
πλέον επιρροές από Aretha Franklin, Carla Thomas, Fontella Bass και
άλλες ντίβες της Soul Blues μουσικής σκηνής.
Taste :
Marie Rottrova - Time Is A Rogue (Modré Oči Mládí)
