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martes, 20 de junio de 2017
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July (1980 US)
martes, 28 de marzo de 2017
Chicago - Chicago III (1971 US)
martes, 14 de marzo de 2017
Syreeta - Syreeta (72) + Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta (74) (2004 US)
El disco que os traemos es un recopilatorio de sus dos primeros LPs, Syreeta de 1972 y Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta de 1974, en una cuidada edición de 2004. La portada del recopilatorio es la misma que la de su primer disco.
martes, 29 de noviembre de 2016
Sly & The Family Stone - A Whole New Thing (1967 US)
miércoles, 7 de enero de 2015
Sly And The Family Stone - Life (1968 USA)
miércoles, 19 de febrero de 2014
The Contours - Essential Collection (2000 US)
VER VIDEO DO YOU LOVE ME
Buscar por : CONTORNOS
domingo, 1 de agosto de 2010
Dia G 01.08.10 (1) - Les McCann - Talk To The People (1973 US)
domingo, 9 de mayo de 2010
Dia G 09.05.10 (3) - Fela Kuti And Afrika '70 - Sorrow Tears And Blood (1977 NIG)
Conoci a Fela decasualidad, cuando Ginger Baker grabo en 1971 el disco "Fela Ransome-Kuti &Africa'70 With Ginger Baker", la musica de aquel disco me cautivo de alguna manera, asi que investigando un poco pude profundizar y seguir a traves de los años a este gran musico ( por desgracia ya fallecido ) hacedor como madis, de lo que yo denomino "Jazz Minimalista"
Oidlo, no os defraudara
"Fela and Afrika 70-Sorrow Tears and Blood-1977 Nigeria":
Born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, north of Lagos in 1938, Fela's family was firmly middle class as well as politically active. His father was a pastor (and talented pianist), his mother active in the anti-colonial, anti-military, Nigerian home rule movement. So at an early age, Fela experienced politics and music in a seamless combination.
"Sorrow Tears and Blood" accurately depicts the trail left in the wake of the February 18, 1977, raid by 1,000 armed Nigerian army men on Fela Kuti and his Kalakuta republic. In keeping with the format upheld on a majority of Kuti's long-players, this disc contains a pair of extended works, featuring one title per LP side. In contrast to the hard-edged and aggressive Afro-funk that Kuti and his Africa 70 became synonymous with, both the A-side title track and B-side, "Colonial Mentality," are seemingly staid, in light or perhaps because of the cruel statesponsored attacks that he and his extended family suffered.
"Sorrow Tears and Blood" is neither a full-blown, up-tempo funk drone nor a somber dirge. The even-handed, mid-tempo groove trots along at a steady pace and features some comparatively sedate sax work from Kuti.
His lyrics are starkly direct: "Everybody run, run, run/Everybody scatter, scatter/Some people lost some bread/Some people just die". Perhaps this is the result of fear, shellshock, or a combination of the two. Kuti's words, however, remain as indicting as ever: "Them leave sorrow, tears, and blood/Them regular trademark."
It's almost impossible to overstate the impact and importance of Fela Anikulapo (Ransome) Kuti (or just Fela as he's more commonly known) to the global musical village: producer, arranger, musician, political radical, outlaw. He was all that, as well as showman, inventor of Afro-beat, an unredeemable sexist, and a moody megalomaniac. His death on August 3, 1997 of complications from AIDS deeply affected musicians and fans internationally, as a musical and sociopolitical voice on a par with Bob Marley was silenced.
LOOK FOR: AFRIKA
miércoles, 28 de abril de 2010
Dexys Midnight Runners- Searching For The Young Rebels (1980)

Reseña de josechu http://modforever.blogspot.com/
Cuando uno se enfrenta a la discografía e historia de los Dexys puede dar la impresión de encontrarte ante tres o cuatro grupos distintos, cambios casi totales de formación y totales en cuanto a imagen, pero eso sí, todo orquestado y dirigido por Kevin Rowland, el alma de Dexys Midnight Runners. Aunque suele ser usual que se identifique al grupo con el álbum Too-Rye-Ay de 1982 y más en particular con el tema Come On Eileen, lo cierto es que los Dexys merecen pasar a la historia por toda su carrera y sobre todo por este su primer LP: "Searching For The Young Soul Rebels", en varios sitios considerado como el mejor disco de la historia (para gustos...). El grupo se formó oficialmente en 1978 y publicaron su primer single "Dance Stance" en 1979 (más tarde este tema fue renombrado a "Burn it Down", además podemos recordar que Mick Talbot estaba en el grupo...) que llegó al nº 40 de las listas inglesas, avisando ya del potencial del grupo. El siguiente single sí que fué nº1, "Geno" (homenaje a Geno Washington, héroe del Soul Británico) y desde luego su mejor y más emblemático tema. Así llegamos al albúm, 1980. Ya desde el primer tema (el ya comentado Burning it Down) no se puede desconectar, 11 canciones llenas de soul, northern soul, vientos y la inconfundible voz solista de Rowland que desde luego sí que me hicieron considerar a este disco como uno de los mejores del mundo mundial, la cinta en la que estaba grabado (gracias al amigo "Mini", estupendo material traído desde la pérfida albión) perdió el Ferro de tanto escucharla y aún sigo emocionándome con la escucha del disco.
Tras la publicación del disco y algunas pequeñas movidas como la apropiación de los másters de grabación para forzar la revisión de contrato con la compañía EMI , llegó la primera disolución o reestructuración del grupo. La mayoría de los componentes pasaron a formar el grupo "The Bureau" y "The Blue Ox Babes". Los Dexys pasaron de la imagen de estibadores portuarios, tabardos, gorros de lana, botas de obrero... a aparecer como boxeadores, sudaderas, zapatillas o bambas de boxeo...época que sólo dura unos tres singles. Nueva disolución al proponer Rowland la inserción de violínes en el grupo (la idea realmente no fué suya), desbandada total y llegamos a nueva etapa, petos, sombreros de paja, imagen de vagabundos... la imagen de "Too-Rye-Ay". Sonidos Celtas con Soul, que dirían algunos, más Dexys para otros.
Después de esto y ya pensando que no nos podía sorprender más, de nuevo cambio de imagen y de componentes (alguno quedó) y nuevo LP, posiblemente uno de sus más infravalorados, "Don’t stand me down" 1985, disco que he valorado con el paso de los años y que hace que el conjunto de los trabajos de Dexys merezca la pena.
Para una mejor descripción de lo ya comentado, podeís daros una vuelta por: http://laescuelamoderna.blogspot.com/2007/05/los-dandis-kamikazes-del-soul.html , mucho más completa, je.
Buscar por: DEMIRUSA y DEMIRUSA30.1-3
domingo, 18 de abril de 2010
Dia G 18.04.10 (2) - The Temptations - Masterpiece (1973 US)
" MASTERPIECE "
MOTOWN RECORDS - 1973
The Tempations comenzaron en 1964 y todavia a dia de hoy siguen vigentes, obviamente con distintas formaciones. Este disco seria el numero 21 de los editados por este grupo en el que su productor, Norman Whitfield tuvo la vision cretiva suficiente para hacerles rememorar exitos del pasado.
En su día este disco ( Fundamentalmente el tema que le da titulo) fue extensamente escuchado, tanto en radios, discotecas etc. Hoy parece un poco, cuando menos "descafeinado" pero su escucha (muy de cuando en cuando ) revitalizara a los nostálgicos.
Enjoy
LOOK FOR: MASTERPIEZA y MASTERPIEZF
domingo, 21 de marzo de 2010
Dia G 21.03.10 (8) - Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Funk Beyond The Call Of Duty (1977 US)
JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON
"Funk Beyond The Call Of Duty"
D.J.F. RECORDS - 1977
Sigo con mi infructuoso busqueda del Cd de "Frankie Goes To Hollywood" que sigue enterrado en algun lugar y me he encontrado con este disco que quizas sirva para engrosar la coleccion de este artista.
Enjoy
LOOK FOR: WATFUNK y WATFUNKV
domingo, 14 de marzo de 2010
Dia G 14.03.10 (8) - Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Bow Wow (1995 US)

"BOW WOW"
M-HEAD RECORDS - 1995
By Julio
Dia G 14.03.10 (7) - Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Lone Ranger (1995 US)
"LONE RANGER"
FANTASY RECORDS - 1995
By Julio
INTENTANDO COMPLETAR (DE ALGUNA FORMA) EL POST DE CHUAN
y sin ninguna intención de competir con el
LOOK FOR: RANGER y RANGERF1-2
domingo, 7 de marzo de 2010
Dia G 07.03.10 (10) - VV.AA. - Mojo Presents Southern Soul (2005 US)
mp3 (320 Kbps)
domingo, 14 de febrero de 2010
Dia G 14.2.10 (7) - Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Stone Crazy (1993 US)
From wikipedia
Early career
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Hawkins studied classical piano as a child and learned guitar in his twenties. His original career goal was to become an opera singer in the footsteps of Paul Robeson. When his initial ambitions failed, he began his career as a conventional blues singer and pianist.
He served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific theater during World War II, primarily as an entertainer. Although he claimed to have been tortured for some time as a prisoner of war, stories of the circumstances of his actual capture vary. According to the documentary, I Put a Spell on Me, upon liberation he blew his chief tormentor's head off by taping a hand-grenade into his mouth and pulling the pin. Hawkins was an avid and formidable boxer. In 1949, he was the middleweight boxing champion of Alaska.
In 1951, he joined guitarist Tiny Grimes for a while, and recorded a few songs with him. When Hawkins became a solo performer, he often performed in a very stylish wardrobe, featuring leopard skins, red leather and wild hats.
"I Put a Spell on You"
His most successful recording, "I Put a Spell on You" (1956), was selected as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. According to the AllMusic Guide to the Blues, "Hawkins originally envisioned the tune as a refined ballad." The entire band was intoxicated during a recording session where "Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through the tune with utter drunken abandon." The resulting performance was no ballad but instead a "raw, guttural track" that became his greatest commercial success and surpassed a million copies in sales.
The performance was mesmerizing, although Hawkins himself blacked out and was unable to remember the session. Afterward he had to relearn the song from the recorded version. Meanwhile the record label released a second version of the single, removing most of the grunts that had embellished the original performance; this was in response to complaints about the recording's overt sexuality. Nonetheless it was banned from radio in some areas.
Soon after the release of "I Put a Spell on You", radio disc jockey Alan Freed offered Hawkins $300 to emerge from a coffin onstage. Hawkins accepted and soon created an outlandish stage persona in which performances began with the coffin and included "gold and leopard skin costumes and notable voodoo stage props, such as his smoking skull on a stick – named Henry – and rubber snakes." These props were suggestive of voodoo, but also presented with comic overtones that invited comparison to "a black Vincent Price."
Later career
Hawkins had several further hits, including "Constipation Blues", "Orange Colored Sky", and "Feast of the Mau Mau". Nothing he released, however, had the monumental success of "I Put a Spell on You". In fact, "Constipation Blues" has been described as "gross". In Paris in 1999 and at the Taste of Chicago festival, he actually performed the song with a toilet onstage.
He continued to tour and record through the 1960s and 1970s, particularly in Europe, where he was very popular. He appeared in performance (as himself) in the Alan Freed bio-pic American Hot Wax in 1978. Subsequently, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch featured "I Put a Spell on You" on the soundtrack – and deep in the plot – of his film Stranger Than Paradise (1983) and then Hawkins himself as a hotel night clerk in his Mystery Train and in roles in Álex de la Iglesia's Perdita Durango and Bill Duke's adaptation of Chester Himes' A Rage In Harlem.
His 1957 single "Frenzy" (found on the early 1980s compilation of the same name) was included in the compilation CD, Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files, in 1996. This song was featured in the show's Season 2 episode "Humbug". It was also covered by the band Batmobile.
In 1983, Hawkins relocated to the New York area. In 1984 and 1985, Hawkins collaborated with garage rockers The Fuzztones, resulting in "Screamin' Jay Hawkins and The Fuzztones Live" album recorded at Irving Plaza in December 1984. They perform in the 1986 movie Joey
In July 1991, Hawkins released his album Black Music for White People. The record features covers of two Tom Waits compositions: "Heart Attack and Vine" (which, later that year, was used in a European Levi's advertisement without Waits' permission, resulting in a lawsuit), and "Ice Cream Man" (which, contrary to popular belief, is a Waits original, and not a cover of the John Brim classic.) Hawkins also covered the Waits song, "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard", for his album Somethin' Funny Goin' On.
When Dread Zeppelin recorded their 'disco' album, It's Not Unusual, in 1992, producer Jah Paul Jo asked Screamin' Jay, to guest. Hawkins performed the songs "Jungle Boogie" and "Disco Inferno".
Hawkins also toured with The Clash and Nick Cave during this period, and not only became a fixture of blues festivals, but appeared at many film festivals as well.
Hawkins died on February 12, 2000 after surgery to treat an aneurysm. He left behind many children by many women; about 55 were known (or suspected) upon his death, and upon investigation, that number "soon became perhaps 75 offspring".
Influence
Although Hawkins was not a major success as a recording artist, his highly theatrical performances from "I Put a Spell On You" onward earned him a steady career as a live performer for decades afterward, and influenced subsequent acts. He opened for Fats Domino, Tiny Grimes and the Rolling Stones. This exposure in turn influenced rock groups such as Screaming Lord Sutch, Black Sabbath, Arthur Brown, Dread Zeppelin, The Horrors and Alice Cooper.
LOOK FOR: SJH
domingo, 7 de febrero de 2010
Dia G 07.02.10 (3) - Isaac Hayes - And Once Again (1980 US)
Isaac Hayes
Y una vez mas (1980)
Bueno acá les dejo un disquito de Isaac Hayes, del año 80, bajo el sello Polydor. Un disco plagado de buen soul, y buenas baladas soul, con algunos temas disco que para mi son el punto flojo del disco, pero las baladas están muy pero muy bien.
Espero que les guste
LOOK FOR: ISAHA, ISAHAF1-2 e ISAHAV
domingo, 13 de diciembre de 2009
Dia G 13.12.09 (6) - Commodores - Machine Gun (1974 US)

COMMODORES
MACHINE GUN(1974 USA Soul Funk)
Rip de vinilo @ 320 (si interesa disponible en wav) + fotos portadas y sellos, por este humilde compartidor que se llama vikingo.
Y por qué no un poco de soul y funk en este alegre domingo. Este disco se lo dedico a Milestone porque sé que le gusta el Soul y a Psicodelia porque sé que le gusta el Funk, y a todos vosotros buenos oyentes de músicas.
Los Commodores se iniciaron allá por 1968 en Detroit, pero no fue hasta 1974 cuando grabaron éste su primer álbum fichados por la Tamla Motown.
La banda:
* Lionel Richie: Piano, Saxo y Voz.
* William King: Trompeta.
* Thomas Mc Clary: Guitarra.
* Milan Williams: Teclados.
* Ronald La Pread: Bajo.
* Walter Orange: Batería.
Pero mejor que hable wikipedia:
Machine Gun is the first album from Commodores, released on July 22, 1974 on the Motown label. This was also the last album recorded and produced at Motowns' Hitsville USA, being recorded in 1972, then released in 1974. Although pop audiences were not exactly responsive to this issue, R&B audiences met this album with open arms.[citation needed] Unlike other Commodores albums, Machine Gun features only funk music and is devoid of slow-paced ballads. The lead song features Milan Williams on clavinet, which led Motown executive Berry Gordy to name the song "Machine Gun" as the clavinet work reminded him of gunfire.[citation needed] This track peaked at #7 on the R&B charts, while reaching #22 on the overall pop charts. The second single to be released, "I Feel Sanctified," reached #12 on the R&B charts, and concerns a man spiritually blessed by his girl's love. The song features Ronald LaPread on bass, while Lionel Richie and William King's contributed horn arrangements. The tune also features an acapella introduction with three-way harmonization. The song "The Bump" became a radio and dancehall staple, with Richie and Walter Orange on vocals calling to female listeners to "...do the bump, do the bump, baby!" "The Assembly Line" and "The Zoo (The Human Zoo)" are both socially charged songs concerning the challenges faced by those who try to make a difference in society. "The Zoo" features an introduction with Williams playing a melody resembling circus music. The remaining songs are also funk tunes. On "Superman," Richie sings from the point of view of the superhero himself.
1. "Machine Gun" (Milan Williams)
2. "Young Girls Are My Weakness" (William King/Ronald LaPread)
3. "I Feel Sanctified" (Commodores/Jeffrey Bowen/B.Miller)
4. "The Bump" (Milan Williams)
5. "Rapid Fire" (Milan Williams)
6. "Assembly Line" (Gloria Jones/Pam Sawyer)
7. "The Zoo (The Human Zoo)" (Gloria Jones/Pam Sawyer)
8. "Gonna Blow Your Mind" (Thomas McClary/Walter Orange/Milan Williams)
9. "There's A Song In My Heart" (Lionel Richie)
10. "Superman" (Lionel Richie)
Enjoy
LOOK FOR: SOUFU
Dia G 13.12.09 (5) - Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove (1978 US)
Funkadelic
One Nation Under A Groove
El grupo que se convertiría en Funkadelic fue formado originalmente por George Clinton, en 1964, como un respaldo musical sin nombre para su grupo The Parliaments, mientras estaban de gira. La banda estaba formada originalmente por los músicos Frankie Boyce, Richard Boyce, y Langston Booth, además de unirse cinco miembros vocalistas de The Parliaments. Boyce y Booth se enrolaron en el Ejército en 1966, entonces Clinton contrato al bajista Billy "Bass" Nelson y al guitarrista Eddie Hazel en 1967, añadió también al guitarrista Tawl Ross y al baterista Tiki Fulwood. El nombre de "Funkadelic" fue acuñado por Nelson después de que la banda se trasladó a Detroit. En 1968, a causa de una disputa con Revilot, la compañía que tenia en propiedad el nombre de "Parliaments", el grupo comenzó a tocar bajo el nombre de Funkadelic. Como Funkadelic, el grupo firmó con la compañía discográfica Westbound en 1968. Alrededor de este tiempo, el grupo evolucionó de la música soul y doo wop en una más impulsada por mezclas de rock psicodélico, soul y funk, más influenciados por la música popular (y política) de los movimientos de la época. Jimi Hendrix y Sly Stone fueron las principales inspiraciones. Este estilo más tarde se convirtió en un refuerzo de la guitarra a base de funk (circa 1971-75), que posteriormente, durante el apogeo del éxito de Parliament-Funkadelic (circa 1976-81), fue añadiendo elementos de música disco y música electrónica. Cuando Parliament comenzó a lograr importantes éxitos en su principal período de 1975-1978, Funkadelic grabo y publicó su más exitoso e influyente álbum llamado One Nation Under a Groove, de 1978, la adición de ex jugadores de Ohio y el tecladista Walter "Junie" Morrison y que refleja una danza basada en un sonido más melódico. La canción con el mismo título pasó seis semanas en el número 1 en los R & B charts, alrededor del tiempo que Parliament goza de la posición # 1 de R & B con sus singles "Flash Light" y "Aqua Boogie".
Extraído de WIkipedia.Dicen que su mejor álbum aunque creo que prefiero el Maggot Brain, los dos están completos de buenas canciones.
A escuchar y ya me dirán.
LOOK: DELIC
lunes, 9 de noviembre de 2009
The 5th Dimension - The Age Of Aquarius (1968 US)
