Description Of Music

Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7-inch, from 1996, as theleader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munichbased session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled.

The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not "world music" - but an album that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on "the one."

Background

Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics' percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany.

Artist Karl Hector & The Malcouns
Title Sahara Swing
Format 2XLP
Label Now Again
Cat NA5035LP
Barcode LP: 659457503512
Release Date 21/007/2008


Tracklist

When The Sun Breaks Through
Nyx
Followed Path
Transition >J<
Sahara Swing
Psycles
Transition >I<
Koloko Pt. 1
Debere Transition >Z<
Jabore Pt. 3
Mystical Brotherhood
Timely Interuption
Transition >B<
Mellow (Version)
Rush Hour
Transition >W<
Toure Samar
Passau Run