The pearls from this week’s crate digging adventures
Rhythms And Dances Of The People Of Jugoslavia – Calig 17701
Rhythem Und Tänze Der Völker – Jugoslawische Tänze is the Original title of this German Vinyl Ep: Calig 17701 This week’s Dig is like a documentary recording. This was produced in order to…
Lerchengesang by Noucha Doina Mit Bela Sanders Orchester
The immitated Chant of the Lark ,or “Lerchengesang” in German, is a traditional romanian improvisational theme which any gifted musician will call their own as it leaves plenty of room for interpretation. This…
Balkanton 5571
This Week i dug up a little Balkan Gem EP on the former Bulgarian state-owned Balkanton Label. As i think of a hurricane when somebody mentions the word cirrylic > in other words…
A Message To You Rudy by Dandy
Dandy aka Robert Linval Thompson has been a very important in the development of reggae as we know it today, having started his musical career learning in the same Alpha Boys School in…
At Last / I Just Want To Make Love To You by Etta James
At Last!- the Greatest Love Song ever written? Deeply emotional, honestly moving, verbally heartfelt, smooth on the ears, epic in orchestration, recorded in unparalleled depth, literally touching! Is one side of Argo release…
The Champ – The Mowhawks
Glorious B-Boy Breakbeat often sampled, reissued, covered, bootlegged and styles have been imitated but there is only one Original and to me nothing has reached these heights of musicianship and downright hairgreasiness! Love…
Andy Kirk – All The Jive Is Gone
This is a stunningly swinging and and not uncontroversial record credited to “Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy” which i doubt would have been very fit for young, middle-class ears back in…
Little Sister – You’re The One
This week came to me an early Black-Rock and Disco crossover classic on Sly Stone’s own Stone Flower imprint. Printed in 1970 and released under the Atlantic Records catalog number S-9000, it is…
Classics IV – Spooky
Originally cut as an instrumental by Mike Sharpe in 1966, this cut by Classics IV popped a year later and features lyrics written by Buddie Bouie and James Cobb the respective lead guitarist…
Sly & The Family Stone – If You Want Me To Stay
One of the last living legends of Funk – already classed as: Rock’s Top Excentric! by Epic Records in 1973 who were in turn a Sublabel of the mighty Columbia Broadcasting Systems (CBS)….
Higher (Make It Funky) – Roots Foundation
Higher (Make It Funky) by Roots Foundation Funky Afro-Disco obviously inspired by Sly & The Family Stone’s “I wanna take you higher” and The Godfather of Funk – James Brown! Great Nigerian interpretation…
Rheingold – Dreiklangs-dimensionen
Some people say this is the first New German Wave (Neue Deutsche Welle) record – Genre Defining from 1980!!! The German Joy Division they certainly borrowed from their Unknown Pleasures LP cover art…
