Published on
October 20, 2014
Category
Features
LPs
Andras & Oscar
Café Romantica
(Chapter Music / Dopeness Galore)
As summer fades and the nights draw in, the young lovers of the world need to keep themselves warm through til the morning. Lucky then that Café Romantica is here to soundtrack seductions, trysts and lingering embraces whatever the weather. Man of the moment Andras Fox reconnects with Oscar Thorn on Dopeness Galore for another collection of stripped back, sultry and smooth proto-house grooves, decorated with rippling percussion, intricate and exotic melodies and Oscar’s gorgeous vocals. Over the course of eight tracks, the Australian duo take us back to the old school and show us how it’s done properly thanks to Nu Groove inspired rhythm sections, street soul motifs and Italian keys. From warm and uplifting floor pleasers to deep and intimate bedroom teasers, Andras and Oscar mack out in perfect harmony.
Spacey Bruce Lacey
Film Music and Improvisations Vol. 1
(Trunk)
The spacey in front of Bruce Lacey’s name for this first of two LP volumes of unreleased film music and improv, has its roots in his fascination with space travel and the distinctly sci-fi sounds of his home made synthesizers. For Bruce though these sounds have as much to do with ancient ley lines and earthly visiting’s of his muse as they do star-gazing. The first side is all soundtrack, but forget the symphonic score and think more along the lines of playing a beer bottle, or a type writer, or the squeaking of a cork turning in a bottle for Bruce’s take on the soundtrack. Musique concrete? 70s sci-fi atmospherics? Bruce isn’t one for trends, his reality is of his own making and his sounds are perplexingly as down to earth as they are truly out there.
Sly Stone’s Flower
I’m Just Like You (1969-1970)
(Light In the Attic)
Monumental reissue from Light In the Attic, as the Seattle diggers pick up the pieces of Sly Stone’s short-lived label venture Stone Flower, an outlet for the family Stone to hone that minimal electro-funk sound enshrined on There’s A Riot Going On. Master of the understated groove, Sly as producer presides over versions of ‘Just Like A Baby’ and ‘Somebody’s Watching You’, but it’s his own offerings ‘Africa’, ‘Spirit’ and ‘Scared’ that really nail the blueprint of the sparse lo-fi funk that set him apart from the rest. The comp collects all five of the label’s 7″s as well as a bunch of recordings salvaged from the Stone Flower archive, and is crucial for anyone with an interest in the period and everything that followed.
The Montgomery Express
The Montgomery Movement
(Numero Group)
Originally released on Moe Asch’s legendary Folkways label – famous for their ethno-musicological studies in the mid 20th century – the Montgomery Movement’s only record was a rare, soulful departure from the label’s field-recording and folk music bread-and-butter. On top of the groove-laden funk laced with heavy jazz instrumentals and real soul, the band was a committedly socially conscious group, plugged into the Montgomery Bus Boycott’s significance for the civil rights struggles of the era, and made up of young Floridian kids, two of whom were blind musicians.
Meatbodies
Meatbodies
(In The Red)
Meatbodies is the creation of Chad Ubovich, the man that gave the bass to Mikal Cronin and Fuzz and now the man (and his buddies) keeping it all to himself. His self titled debut on In The Red is a blast of soaring melodies and wall to wall riffs. Whereas Ty Segall’s last stupendous effort was more T-Rex, this is more riffs. With bells on. Y’all need to love shit like this!
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