Vraiment un excellent album paru il y a peu, dont voici la petite prez parue sur le bandcamp du sieur :
Producer and bassist Huw Marc Bennett presents ‘Tresilian Bay’, a new project that draws from artists such as Tim Maia, Augustus Pablo and Idris Muhammed as much as the jazz scene and community he has found in south-east London. The languid, sultry sound fuses both modern and vintage, travelling from South London electronica, to Brazillian groove, Nigerian Afrobeat and Ghanaian Highlife along with a streak of Welsh psychedelia.
Deux excellentes compiles, avec plusieurs artistes qu'on a déjà vu ici (en vrac : Ikebe Shakedown, Durand Jones, Monophonics, Jr Thomas, Dojo Cuts...), et d'autres évidemment. Bless.
Anthony "Rebop" Kwaku Baah est un percussionnisteghanéen né le 13 février 1944 à Katongo au Ghana, et mort le 13 janvier 1983 à Stockholm (Suède). Il est surtout connu pour avoir fait partie des groupes Traffic et Can.
Après avoir rencontré Traffic lors d'une tournée en Suède, il rejoint le groupe en 1971. Il travaille alors sur les albums Welcome to the Canteen, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory et On the Road avec le groupe anglais. En parallèle, il enregistre ses propres albums et participe en 1973 à l'album Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert d'Eric Clapton.
Après le split de Traffic en 1974, il joue sur le premier album de Steve Winwood en 1977, puis rejoint, en compagnie du bassiste Rosko Gee, le groupe de KrautrockCan, avec qui il jouera jusqu'à la séparation des musiciens en 1979. Il apparaît néanmoins sur les albums Saw Delight, Out of Reach et Can.
En 1983, il collabore avec le groupe Zahara pour un album, toujours en compagnie de Rosko Gee, mais meurt peu de temps après, d'une hémorragie cérébrale, en plein concert à Stockholm. Son album, Melodies in a Jungle Mans Head, sortira à titre posthume, bien qu'inachevé.
Groupe d'Afrique du sud, installé à Londres. Le troisisème album ( Charles Hilton Brown – Owed To Myself ) est également paru sous le nom "This Is Charles Hilton Brown And The Assagai "... Bless.
Guitariste et compositeur de Detroit, Eddy Senay a enregistré 2 albums en 1972 chez Sussex, dont voici la réedition réunie sur un CD par Vampi Soul. Bless.
Super groupe de Leeds, dont plusieurs membres font également partie d'autres groupes qu'ont a déjà vu sur ce label, notamment les fameux The Sorcerers, ainsi que The Magnificent Tape Band. Deux albums assez différents, le premier étant dans un style qui nous rappelle les Sorceres justement, le second clairement plus orienté Latin-Jazz. Bless.
Marty Moore - Radiation Funk LONNIE LESTER So This Is Love NU-TONE 201 Encore une fabuleuse série de chez Tramp Records qui décidemment, allie à la perfection réedition de vieux morceux, et production de nouveaux groupes. Bless.
Premier et unique album pour ce groupe , dont voici la chronique qu'a sorti Numero Group lors de la réedition de l'opus sur leur label en 2014 :
Funk’s answer to the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Florida’s Montgomery Express stood at the crossroads of politically conscious soul and mystically awakened dance music. Comprised of two blind musicians in their twenties and a teenage rhythm section, their lone LP was cut in 1972 for Orlando’s Dove label, then reissued on Folkways two years later. Although the label usually steered clear of soul music and anything remotely commercial sounding, Montgomery Express tapped into Folkways’ Guthrie-cum-Chambers Brothers nerve.
The Sorcerers - Suur Tõll On reste sur le même label que le précédent post, avec quelques musiciens qui font partie des deux projets, avec cet album paru en 2015, dans un esprit afrobeat/ethio-jazz très lent mais tout de même groovy, du meilleur effet. Bless.
A 9-member funk group from Detroit, Michigan, who only released 3 singles on the small Movement label before breaking up. The group was noted for the young age of the members, the oldest member was 17 year-old bandleader Clarence Bennett while guitarist Mark Justice was just 15. Luv N' Haight released a compilation of all of their recordings: "Funky Disposition" - The Complete Propositions Collection!
Prelude is the eighth studio album by Brazilian keyboardist with the signature track « Also Sprach Zarathustra » an arrangement of the theme from « 2001: A Space Odyssey ». Prelude would become the most successful recording for Deodato and CTI Records.
Recorded September 1972 at Van Gelder Studios. Engineer by Rudy Van Gelder.
Eumir Deodato. Born the 22nd of June 1942 (or June 21, 1943) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and by 1967 moved to the USA. Musician, composer, arranger & producer. Known for his 1979-1982 production work for Kool & the Gang & composing TV & film scores. Primarily based in the jazz realm but who historically has been known for eclectic melding of big band and combo jazz with varied elements of rock/pop, R&B/funk, Brazilian/Latin, and symphonic or orchestral music. Mainly, his records can be categorized as pop/jazz or crossover jazz. His successes as an original artist (keyboards) occurred mainly in the 1970s...
Nigeria in the 1970s had one of the biggest recording industries on the continent as well as one of the most diverse. The fusion of African rhythms and culture with jazz, funk, soul and rock was an Africa wide phenomenon but nowhere was it more prolific and active than the cities and dance floors of Nigeria. These twelve rarities highlight how the Afro – Sound influenced all areas of the music scene and how it progressed throughout a very creative and energetic decade. From Funky Afro-Jazz, Soul & Afro-Highlife to big, Dance Floor Afro-Beat Nigeria led the way in West Africa at the time.
Soul Jazz Records latest excursion into the Crescent City vaults delves deep into the roots and history of the Voodoo world of New Orleans Funk. Packed to the brim with serious break-heavy, heavyweight funk tunes from classic New Orleans artists including Eddie Bo, Betty Harris, Dave Bartholomew, Johnny Adams and Eldridge Holmes (with the ever-present Allen Toussaint and The Meters as always behind the scenes). There is also a host of rare cuts from a number of lesser-known second line New Orleans artists, whose fame rarely reached past the walls of the city, including Gus ‘The Groove’ Lewis, James K-Nine, Norma Jean, Bob French, Chuck Colbert, Zilla Mayes and Joe Haywood. In the 1960s the syncopated beat of New Orleans Funk developed out of a gumbo mix of New Orleans local flavours – rhythm and blues, Mardi Gras Indians, the street percussion Second Line of the Jazz Funeral and Marching bands, Caribbean rhumba and mambo rhythms – all of which are in full effect. Even Zydeco, the rhythm and blues offspring of Louisiana Cajun music, had the funk as the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, shows us here. New Orleans music and Voodoo both have their roots in the African-American free black and slave gatherings held at Congo Square from the 18th century onwards. Here Voodoo king Doctor John (the original one!) and Voodoo queen Marie Levaux held court over their followers, and here also could be heard the first sounds of New Orleans jazz music. Soul Jazz Records latest album describes how these two cultural forms are inextricably inter-related.
Des nouveautés, des classiques, des raretés, un seul mot d'ordre : du groove ! Liens dans les commentaires, tout en mp3 320, ou en FLAC. Si un lien est mort, dites-le moi !
Novelties, classics, rarities, a single word: groove!Links in the comments, mp3 320 or FLAC. If a link is dead, let me know !