Twist And Shout

Twist And Shout

Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Sahara Swing

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Format: CD
Label: SNHO
Catalog: 5035
Rel. Date: 07/08/2008
UPC: 659457503529

Sahara Swing
Artist: Karl Hector & The Malcouns
Format: CD
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Now-Again Records follows up the Heliocentrics' percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tingled funk music originating from 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 Curlinja, 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 is 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."

Reviews:

Not really swing at all—Afrofunk, more like it, though in its less familiar East African variant, more arid than its humid sub-Saharan counterpart, but no less motorvating. In fact, this is sometimes looser and funkier than the more authentic stuff out on the market.

        
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