Cedric Im Brooks: Somewhere Close
As “Praises” is wont to make one believe, this effort from Cedric Im Brooks isn’t all roots music. The disc comes in somewhere close to what The Light of Saba would be, but this effort is a bit more ramshackle and less focused despite it being a great deal shorter than the better known album from this JA sax player.
BLOGLOAD: United Africa
Breakestra: A Jouyful Noise
Uh…this is it. There’re Daptone bands as well as the Truth and Soul stable, but the Breakestra out does those folks…the end.
BLOGLOAD: Dusk Till Dawn
O’Donel Levy: Funk/Soul/Jazz/Other
O’Donel Levy has his ups and downs. Simba was/is fantastically funky. And while the rest of his catalog is a mixed bag of soul jazz and awful smooth tripe, some of the better latter day work is stuffed into Windows. Just ignore the man’s singing.
BLOGLOAD: Windows
Naomi Shelton: Alabama to Brooklyn
What Have You Done, My Brother? brims with soul, funk and gospel…A fresh scent from Daptone…check x Osmosis.
BLOGLOAD: Alabama to Brooklyn
Wednesday’s Funk ‘n Soul
There’s no reason for this other than it sounds good…
The Budos Band EP
If you thought today might stink….it sill might, but at least there’s some new Budos Band funk to get you through the mire.
As a way to entice the public into buying the entire shebang, Daptone has unfurled this Afro inspired daub of funk for the masses…Take a listen to “The Proposition.”
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For the Funk
“I live for the funk, I’ll die for the funk…”
For whatever reason, this weekend yielded a veritable slew of funk compilations mostly from Deejay Uilson, but also a good grouping from My Favourite Sound.
Analog Africa x Selection, Vols. 01 & 02
Analog Africa still hasn’t had a huge release exposing it to a broad reception in the press – yet. These mixes were probably meant to help…So, if you’re Monday lacks funk, get ‘em.
Nancy Wilson x the Greyboy All Stars
What Happened to Television? isn’t new any more…but after realizing that “How Glad I Am” was a cover a bit of comparison became necessary. The live Greyboy All Stars version isn’t nearly as funky as the studio version – either kinda beat the original though.
Nancy Wilson will be staring in the dollar bin at your local record store this weekend…
BLOGLOAD: What Happened to Television?
Karl Hector x the Malcouns
This doesn’t sound new or old…it’s just funky.
Karl Hector and the Malcouns have been described as “Afrodelic Kraut Funk from the minds behind the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers.” Headed by the mysterious Karl Hector – erstwhile leader of the Funk Pilots project – and aided by Poets of Rhythm/Whitefield Brothers guitarist Jan Whitefield alongside Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija (founders of the Malcouns), the band take a trip through heavy psychedelic Afro Funk, taking in melodies from Ethiopia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their album Sahara Swing came out on Stones Throw/Now Again last year…
BLOGLOAD: Sahara Swing