Last Updated 11/06/2024 07:22 PM EST
LOG IN
CART
Cart Items :
Sub Total :
artist
label
title
catalog #
any field
advanced
New Releases
Artists
Labels
Forthcoming
Best Sellers
Reviews
Jobs
soundclips
[All Countries]
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russian Federation
Scotland
Senegal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UK
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
World's Leading Terrorist State
World's Misleading Terrorist State
[All Formats]
Book
Cassette
CD
Clothing
Digital
DVD
MISC
VHS
Vinyl
[All Genres]
CLASSICAL
COMEDY
ELECTRONIC
EXPERIMENTAL
HIPHOP
JAZZ
Misc
ROCK
WORLD
artist
catalog #
label
title
any field
Tweet
Send Email
PRICE:
$18.00
$18.00
NOT IN STOCK
ARTIST
HECTOR & THE MALCOUNS, KARL
TITLE
Unstraight Head
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
NOW-AGAIN
CATALOG #
NA 5114CD
NA 5114CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
6/17/2014
"Afrodelic Krautrock excursions featuring members of Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers It's been some years since the first Karl Hector release, and it's known now that Mr. Hector is indeed the German producer and guitarist JJ Whitefield, aka Jan Weissenfeldt. Whitefield is the visionary behind the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, the ensembles whose rough analog sound and return to the funk archetypes of the late '60s to early '70s paved the way for labels like Daptone, Truth & Soul, and Timmion.
Unstraight Ahead
finds the band exploring territories even outside of the expansive scope of
Sahara Swing
. On this album, the West African sounds of Ghana and Mali meet the East African sounds of Mulatu Astatke's Ethiopian jazz and are tied together with the groove heavy experimental-ism of The Malcouns' '70s Krautrock godfathers: Can, of course, but also more obscure and equally adventurous groups like Agitation Free, Ibliss, and Tomorrow's Gift.
'We look to Middle Eastern funk and psychedelic fusions, and to various ethnic records for sound and phrasing,'
Whitefield says.
'We're trying to combine the global experimental-ism of krautrock with the backbeat of funk.'
This explains how songs in uneven meters -- 5/4, 7/8 -- always sound so accessible and natural on
Unstraight Ahead
. It's mainly an instrumental affair, but guest artists appear throughout, from across the African diaspora to those from the worldly krautrock forebears of their German fatherland: it's Marja, daughter of Embryo founder Christian Burchard, whose vocals open the album. It's an album out of time, one that couldn't have been made in the era its aural aesthetics reference, as its scope is so broad. But it's an album focused by funk -- and an ambition to expand funk's reaches. The Malcouns -- including Poets of Rhythm songwriter and vocalist Bo Baral -- created their own instruments to fashion an album that stands alongside the great albums of its progenitors but charges
Unstraight Ahead
into a curious musical future."
Other releases on NOW-AGAIN
Other releases by HECTOR & THE MALCOUNS, KARL