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The Poets of Rhythm - Gauloises Blondes presents The Poets of Rhythm

June 25th, 2012

The Poets of Rhythm - Gauloises Blondes presents The Poets of RhythmTHE POETS OF RHYTHM

  • Gauloises Blondes presents The Poets of Rhythm
  • Soulciety Records
  • 1995
  • Germany

The Munich based funk band The Poets of Rhythm started to form in the late 1980s or very early in the 1990s when Boris Geiger and Jan Weissenfeldt got into the world of late 1960s and early 1970s American musical phenomena often called deep funk or raw funk. They started to get their band together and soon the first line-up was ready; Boris Geiger on vocals and percussion, Jan Weissenfeldt on guitar, Max Weissenfeldt on drums, Jan Krause on bass, Till Sahm on organ, Michael Voß on trumpet and Malte Müller-Egloff on alto saxophone. Their first 45 was released on 1992 and the next year was released their debut album Practice what you preach. They had recorded material even earlier but it had to wait until the 21st century to be released. The band was notorious for having a numerous different aliases that they used when releasing 45s during the years. These aliases included Bo Baral’s Excursionists, Bus People Express, Dynamic Soundmakers, Karl Hector & The Funk-Pilots, The Mercy Sluts, The Mighty Continentals, Neo-Hip-Hot-Kiddies Community, The New Process, The Pan-Atlantics, The Polyversal Souls, Soul Sliders, Soul-Saints Orchestra, Whitefield Brothers and The Woo Woo’s among some others. They also released a couple of “compilation albums” where all the tracks were actually performed by them under different incarnations.

The Gauloises Blondes presents The Poets of Rhythm EP was one of these compilations. It had only five tracks on it, but they’re all performed by The Poets of Rhythm under a different name. And they’re all quite typical Poets of Rhythm sounding midtempo tracks - except the last one, that has a little more pace. First one is a flute driven funk track called “Into space and time” performed by The Poets of Rhythm. The second one on side a is a little heavier but slightly monotonic funker “Fifty yards of soul” by Whitefield Bros. “Spooky grinder”, by The Woo Woo’s opens the b-side. It’s followed by Soul Saints Orchestra’s “Bag of soul”, which is an instrumental take of their Christmas funk track “Santa’s got a bag of soul”. Last one is a live take called “Breakdown to tighten up”. It’s an uptempo part of the live set of The Poets of Rhythm with a massive break in the middle.


The Poets of Rhythm - Into space and time


Whitefield Bros. - Fifty yards of soul


The Woo Woo’s - Spooky grinder


Soul-Saints Orchestra - Bag of soul


The Poets of Rhythm - Breakdown the tighten up (live)

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Osaka Monaurail - What it is… what it was

October 15th, 2011

Osaka Monaurail - What It IsOSAKA MONAURAIL

  • What it is.. what it was
  • RD records
  • 2000
  • Japan

Originally from Osaka and named after the famous monorail of the city, Osaka Monaurail was formed in 1992 as a college jazz orchestra. Since day one they have been in the forefront of the Japanese funk scene and during the years they have established themselves as a number one funk outfit from Japan. The outfit is pretty much the same what it has been past 19 years, nine funky cats out of Osaka prefecture: two trumpets, tenor sax, trombone, two guitars, bass, drums, lead by the singer and organ player Ryo Nakata. Their first appear on record was however as late as in 2000 when they appeared in the album of the Japanese hip hop group Buddha Brand, where they performed the “Super heavy funk intro”. Soon they also released their first own release, What it is… what it was EP. They have always been considered as The JB’s of Japan and they are so good that the funky diva herself, Marva Whitney chose them as her backing band when she returned to the studio in 2006 - 37 years after her previous album.

There’s actually only two songs in the What it is… what it was EP, The title track “What it is… what it was (parts 1 & 2)” and “ABC TVシリーズ 『The Men』 のテーマ” (”Theme from the ABC TV series The Men”). “What it is… what it was (parts 1 & 2)” is a tight, midtempo six minutes of pure funkiness. Borrowing riffs from The JB’s and James Brown, it’s very very similar to the sound of the original funk bosses, The JB’s, at their best. On the b-side there is also “part 3″ and the instrumental “Original tambourine mix” of the title track. The other track, originally a 45 release from Isaac Hayes, “Theme from The Men”, is pretty much what it sounds to be like. An uptempo blaxploitation theme full of pace and chase funk drums. It’s quite similar to the original, just a little updated version with Monaurail’ish arrangements. Even the cover art is made in the spirit of those 1970s blaxploitation soundtracks.


What it is… what it was (parts 1 & 2)


ABC TVシリーズ 『The Men』 のテーマ

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Pablo Discobar - The only thing

March 3rd, 2011

Pablo Discobar - The Only ThingPABLO DISCOBAR

  • The only thing
  • Private pressing
  • 2006
  • Australia

Melbourne based Pablo Discobar was established in the early 00s. It consists of some of the funkiest musicians of the whole Melbourne area. Throughout the years there’s been some changes in line-up and in this The only thing EP the following guys are playing - Julian Feldman (vocals), Arik Blum (guitar / vocals), Paul Glezer (bass), David Orlanski (drums), Simon Greenfield (saxophone), Matt Mahoney (trombone), Tomas “The Rev” Correa (trumpet) and Hue Blanes (keyboards). After the success of the EP, they have also released a self titled full length album in 2009, although it’s only in cd format as far as I know.

In this one you can find five heavy floor shakers recorded in one all-night jam session. “Devil’s song”, a midtempo vocal funk song starts the album. Next up is “I got it”, an uptempo breakbeat funk track similar to the interestingly named “Interlude”. It’s not an actual interlude as we think of the term, but only shorter than the others. “Pleasure-come-pain” is downtempo but funky vocal track quite similar to the last song “Don’t gimme the loop”. On the flipside there’s instrumentals to all the tracks except “Don’t gimme the loop”. No fillers, only killers as you can say.


Devil’s song


I got it


Interlude


Pleasure-come-pain


Don’t gimme the loop

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