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Various Artists
Psych-Funk 101
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock, Classic Rock

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Su Derenin Sulari (Husnu Ozkartal)
2. Respect (Kukumbas)
3. Alemiye (Mulatu Astatke)
4. The Man Who Must Leave (Kim Sun)
5. What You Can Do In Life (Petalouda)
6. Doe Pajereh (Mehr Pooya)
7. All Men Shall Be (Staff Carpenborg)
8. The Feed-back (The Group)
9. Circuito Chiuso (Armando Sciascia)
10. Aandak Baharia Ya Rayess (W. Essafi)
11. Rakset El Fadaa (Omar Khorshid)
12. Mevlana Boyle Dede (Metin H. Alatli)
13. The Big Search (George Garanian)
14. Dagon (Eskaton)

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Psych-Funk 101
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: World Psychedelic
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 9/1/2009
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock, Classic Rock
Styles: Funk, Psychedelic Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 933654010128

Synopsis

Product Description

Psych-Funk 101 introduces students to the global phenomenon of psychedelic funk music, and covers the "golden years" of the movement, from approximately 1967 until 1980. This compilation does not focus on American and British bands. Rather it focuses on the bands throughout the Global Village that were influenced by the innovation of American and British bands that many times one upped the heroes they sought to emulate. This compilation focuses on bands influenced by James Brown, The Meters, Sly and The Family Stone, Booker T and The MGs and The Bar Kays and unsung rhythmic forces such as drummers Bernard Purdie, Idris Muhammad, Earl Palmer, bassists such Carol Kaye and Jimmy Lewis. It focuses on bands who took that energy and combined it with the flair of psychedelic-rock musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and the ensemble known as Cream as well as pop-rock acts taken by the experimental side of psychedelia such as The Beatles. But these bands added their own, unique cultural flourishes. The result is mind-bending. Think about it for a second what musical forces were greater than that of funk and psychedelic music in the late 60s and early 70s? These forces, combined by bands happy to incorporate folk music and improvisational elements from other musical forms, lead to an amazing body of work still being unearthed by researchers the world over and still capable of inspiring new investigations into shapes of rhythm.

CD Reviews

A must have for the most diehard Psych and Noise fans!

Sambson | North Carolina | 11/03/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"80% of this compilation is fantastic stuff that will blow your mind. It moves from Beatlesque influences to just straight up freak-out, with plenty of odd rhythms and weird songwriting elements and transitions. "The Man Who Must Leave" has some very relaxing pastoral organ, juxtaposed against smashing drums and the most blistering, dirty guitar of this set. "What You Can Do In Your Life" has a 'Fela Kuti...don't you take me on no bad trip' kinda vibe. "Doe Pajereh' / 'Ghabilehe Leili" very much resembles a Spanish Blaxploitation soundtrack, with strings and everything. "The Feed-back" is undoubtedly the most far out piece here; seeming to belong on a Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music compilation. "Circuito Chiuso" sounds like a funky trip to Dante's Inferno, and "Rakset El Fadaa" is a superb merging of Raga and Surf guitar unlike anything else. "The Big Search" has a bass sound and hook that could put it on the banned episode of Sesame Street where they shroom, play pinball and count sideways. Even a couple of European Classical bits are used for intros on "...Brothers Of Ludwig" (Beethoven, duh) and "Mevlana Boyle Dede" (Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra"). The whole thing ends with the nearly 10 minute "Dagon", which could easily fit in with the Ennio Morricone "Crime & Dissonance" compilation; sounding like an Italian horror movie until it unexpectedly hits the strangest Funkadelic Vs. Chromesturzende Neubauten beatdown put to tape! Tracks 1,2,3,10 are a bit too World music and not enough Psych for my tastes; but this set is a must have for the most diehard Psych and Noise fans."