GROOVALLEGIENCE - 10 SUPER RARE ORIGINAL FUNKY TRACKS FROM THE LATE 60s TO THE EARLY 70s
The title's
a reference to a Funkadelic song, but the set's a much deeper batch of grooves
– really rare tracks from the funky 45 underground of the late 60s and early
70s – pulled together in one massively groovy piece of wax! There's a lot of
hip twists and turns in the music – not just the usual funky offshoots of James
Brown and Stax, but some plenty creative instrumentation that brings in some
jazzy flourishes, unusual time changes, and raw production styles to really
make the music sparkle! Titles include "I Don't Know Nothing Else To Tell
You But I Love You" by Monica, "Trolly" by New Directions,
"Introduction" by the Concepts, "And I Love You" by Darling
Dears, "JB's Latin" by Spitting Image, "Blues For The Bs"
by TJ & The Group, "Foxy" by Sam Jacobs, and "Nighttime On
The Beach Island" by Cool Creations Of St Maarten. ~ Dusty Groove.
THE SURE FIRE SOUL ENSEMBLE
A mighty
full length debut from the Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – a group we've really been
digging on funky 45s, and who seem to serve up even more great work in the
space of an album! The sound here is deeper than the usual funky combo – with
some of the more complicated lines and colors that have shown up in only a few
of the best second generation deep funk combos – like El Michels or Menahen
Street Band – and these guys really change things up nicely by bringing in some
slight global funk elements, while still keeping their core groove in a style
that's firmly rooted in the good ol' US of A! The Fender Rhodes and organ lines
are especially nice – and titles include "Layin Low", "The
Hunt", "City Heights", "Sweltering Heights",
"Passing Clouds", and "Sander's Lament". ~ Dusty Groove.
BARTON RAGE
/ BILL LASWELL - REALM
The "Realm" project is a concept series of albums
aimed at connecting ideas that revolutionized popular music from the 80s and
90s onward - involving genres such as Hip Hop, Ambient and Drum & Bass,
coupled with contemporary extensions expressed in styles such as Future Jazz,
Electronica, Dub Step, etc.The primary
philosophy driving this series is to create singular identities within each
album. Each work is crafted with the unique sound and style of artists who have
created shape-shifting music, as well as partnerships with modern contributors.
The first album, "Realm I," was made in collaboration with renowned
producer and musician Bill Laswell, whose groundbreaking work can be heard
across music's conventional stylistic boundaries. Barton Rage is a guitarist,
multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger & producer. His music draws upon
many different genres, mainly avant-garde and future jazz, but also funk,
fusion, metal, world, classical, reggae, drum 'n' bass, dub, and ambient music.
He incorporates diverse styles to explore open minded ways of expression in
harmonic, melodic and rhythmic development. His composing methods focus on intuitive
approach to sound and dynamics in music as a whole, aiming at creating a self
existing esthetic sound flow experience in each work. Rage's music can be
characterized as morphing sounds and melodic noises of not clearly
distinguishable electronic and acoustic instruments. Gradual transformation of
textures into clear melodies, "alien" sounding improvisation or rich
spheric background sounds, play a big role in an emotional development of each
song. Also rhythmic grooves in melodic instruments as well as drum and
percussive instruments undergo a metric mutation between chaotic and steady
beats - chaos within order, and order within chaos.
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