Ikebe Shakedown – Ikebe Shakedown
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2011, Afrobeat, Funk, Jazz
Ikebe Shakedown, the self-titled album from the Brooklyn-based band, plays with elements of Cinematic Soul, Afro-funk, Deep Disco, and Boogaloo in all the right ways. After spending a few years together the group, named after a favorite Nigerian boogie record (and pronounced “ee-KAY-bay,”) delivers a driving set of tunes featuring a mighty horn section anchored by tight, deep-pocketed grooves.
For more info and buy check: www.ikebeshakedown.com
Tracklist
01. Tujunga
02. Kumasi Walk
03. No Name Bar
04. Tame The Beats
05. Don’t Contradict
06. The Hold Up
07. Refuge
08. In Circles
09. The Viking
10. Five Points
11. Asa-Sa
12. Pepper
13. Sakonsa
14. Green And Black
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Ebo Taylor – Life Stories
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2011, Afrobeat
Following his recent studio album with Afrobeat Academy, ’Love And Death’, his first international release, Ghanaian highlife guitar legend Ebo Taylor teams up again with Strut for a long overdue definitive compilation of his seminal 1970s recordings, ‘Life Stories’.
This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, focusing on his solo albums and some of his lesser known side projects including the dynamite Apagya Show Band and short-lived Taylor-led combos Assase Ase, Super Sounds Namba and The Pelikans. The selection also touches on his writing and production work for C.K. Mann and a collaboration recording with fellow member of early ‘70s nightclub band Blue Monks, Pat Thomas.
Tracks include the anthemic ’Heaven’, sampled by Usher on his hit with Ludacris, ’She Don’t Know’, the original version of the poignant ’Love And Death’ and the rare 15-minute nugget, ’Aba Yaa’. The package features rare photos, original album artwork and sleeve notes by Soundway Records’ Miles Cleret.
For more info and buy check: www.strut-records.com
Tracklist
CD1
01. Heaven
02. Atwer Abroba
03. Victory
04. Ohiani Sua Efir
05. Kwaku Ananse
06. Peace On Earth
07. Aba Yaa
08. Ene Nyame Nam ‘A’ Mensuro
CD2
01. Tamfo Nyi Ekyir
02. Love and Death
03. Ohye Atar Gyan
04. Yes Indeed
05. Mumude
06. What Is Life
07. Etuei
08. Egya Edue
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Woima Collective – Tezeta
Posted by dOk | Filed under 2010, Afrobeat, Funk
The Woima Collective was born from deep within the brass section of renowned German funk unit Poets Of Rhythm, as tenor sax player Johannes Schleiermacher became immersed in the rhythms and modes of the African music that the Poets love so much.
Combining the tight funk of groups like The Heliocentrics and the Poets Of Rhythm, with gnarly abyssinian brass and classic Mulatu-esque organ licks, the twelve tracks on Tezeta breeze into Europe on the Siroccan winds. At times, the band nods to dubby workouts like on the track ‘No Way But Still Walking’, at other times the brass section threaten to get free and atonal on the album closer ‘Wilder Mann’. Nevertheless Tezeta takes the cohesive pulse of North Africa, and fits it in a groove that will run and run for days. The Woima Collective celebrates the hypnotic beauty of Ethiopian scales and African rhythms, but creates an unique sound out of those influences, leaving lots of space for the individual band members to do their dance.
For more info and buy check: www.kindred-spirits.nl
Tracklist
01. Marz
02. Credo
03. Woima
04. Gaaf
05. Puno
06. No Way But Still Walking
07. Cavemans Revenge
08. Wayna
09. The Cave
10. Gidama
11. Illusions
12. Wilder Mann
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Toni Esposito – Gente Distratta
Posted by dOk | Filed under 1977, Afrobeat, Jazz
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Tracklist
01. Gente Distratta
02. Session Man
03. Xantur
04. Solchiaro
05. Pastelli
06. Kosen Rufen
