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The compilation features hard-to-find gems from artists including Markus Kelly \u0026amp; The Impassions, Harvey \u0026amp; The Phenomenals, The New Establishment In Soul, The Soul Tornadoes, and Dayton Sidewinders, among others. Bonus tracks include live and rare recordings from Billy Joe Holloman and Illinois Connection, adding extra depth for collectors. Midwest Funk captures the spirit of Tornado Alley’s underground music scene, presenting these lost treasures with care and reverence for the original recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Us – Let’s Do It Today (Full Length Version)\n\u003cbr\u003e2. Markus Kelly \u0026amp; The Impassions – Pushin’ To The Top\n\u003cbr\u003e3. Harvey \u0026amp; The Phenomenals – Soul \u0026amp; Sunshine\n\u003cbr\u003e4. The New Establishment In Soul – Whip It (Pt. 1)\n\u003cbr\u003e5. Billy Ball \u0026amp; The Upsetters – Sissy Walk\n\u003cbr\u003e6. The TMG's – The Hatch\n\u003cbr\u003e7. 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To achieve the Earthology's unique sound, the Brothers employed an array of instruments and put in a dizzying amount of research: traveling the world, joining different bands and ethnic performing ensembles, amassing and absorbing field recordings, trawling used record bins for lost examples of global psychedelic-fusion, over a period spanning some fifteen years. Like In The Raw, Earthology is grounded by a \"raw soul\" band's building blocks: drums, guitar, bass, keys and horns, but it is augmented by such exotic instruments as gongs and flutes from Asia, xylophones and string instruments from Africa and Central American percussion instruments. The use of African polyrhythms now seems commonplace on a funk or psych album; Arabic rhythmical structures, African pentatonic scales and Oriental modes do not. 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No surprise, then, that the Heliocentrics have earned lifetime fans in the likes of questing spirits like Madlib (with whom Catto has collaborated on numerous Yesterdays New Quintet projects), DJ Shadow (both as a touring ensemble and in the studio), Quantic and Ethiopian jazz giant Mulatu Astatke, with whom the Heliocentrics recorded and released Inspiration Information 3, the fourth classic Mulatu album - released nearly forty years after his other three. Out There may have been one hell of an opening volley, but having spent some years in the wild running among mavericks like Astatke and Oriental Jazz pioneer Lloyd Miller, the Heliocentrics have realized that their strongest statements are made somewhere between the persistent fuzz of Owusu's distorted guitar, Catto's impossible syncopation and Ferguson's looping bass lines. 13 Degrees of Reality is one of the most distinctive musical statements you'll hear all year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1        Feedback (Intro)\u003cbr\u003e2        Ethnicity\u003cbr\u003e3        Public Safety Broadcast (Interlude)\u003cbr\u003e4        Mysterious Ways\u003cbr\u003e5        Dreams (Interlude)\u003cbr\u003e6        Collateral Damage\u003cbr\u003e7        Outtake (Interlude)\u003cbr\u003e8        Freeness Part 2\u003cbr\u003e9        Wrecking Ball\u003cbr\u003e10        Mind Readers (Interlude)\u003cbr\u003e11        Descarga Electronica\u003cbr\u003e12        A Musical Conspiracy (Interlude)\u003cbr\u003e13        Eastern Begena\u003cbr\u003e14        Hall Of Mirrors (Interlude)\u003cbr\u003e15        Mr. Owusu, I Presume?\u003cbr\u003e16        The Abstract And The Absolute (Interlude)\u003cbr\u003e17        Black Sky\u003cbr\u003e18        Prepare For Lift-Off (Interlude)\u003cbr\u003e19        Path Of The Black Sun\u003cbr\u003e20        Calabash\u003cbr\u003e21        Vibrations Of The Fallen Angels (Outro)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heliocentrics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46917628592324,"sku":"ZZ-NA5097-CD","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1741\/5543\/files\/13degrees.png?v=1792550077"},{"product_id":"east-of-underground-soap-2xcd","title":"East Of Underground\/SOAP (2xCD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoul and funk music recorded by US Army Servicemen during the height of the Vietnam War and released as albums by the US Army as recruitment tools. 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Only one former band member has come forward during the assembly of this anthology, which has lead us to question: where did these talented performers land after their winning performances in Army-sponsored Battle Of The Bands contests afforded them (musical) tours across European Army bases? Perhaps some are still around somewhere: perhaps some are still involved in music; perhaps some were killed in action; perhaps some passed on after returning to the States. 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This is the music that came from the scene referred to as Zamrock. Left out of our Zamrock investigation, for stylistic reasons as well as logistical concerns, were albums released after Zamrock's heyday, when the music of '80s Zambia came to be influenced by disco and rhumba from neighboring Congo. Bands that didn't adapt sounded outdated. Thus even Zamrock's greatest band, WITCH, splintered, with a skeleton crew of core members embracing younger musicians to record and release two albums that found the band replacing fuzz guitars with whirling synthesizers and trying their hand at soul, disco and boogie. According to Patrick Mwondela, the keyboardist on these albums and the only member of the later WITCH still living, the influences on the band had grown beyond the earlier pull of the Rolling Stones, Grand Funk Railroad and Deep Purple to include the Bee Gees, Commodores, Earth Wind \u0026amp; Fire, Kool \u0026amp; the Gang and Michael Jackson. 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Festival promoters intrigued by the possibility of resurrecting the careers of once forgotten African mavericks - from Ghana's Ebo Taylor to the progenitors of Zambia's Zamrock scene - brought Hector and crew across Europe playing festivals for ecstatic fans. A grueling tour schedule made recording a follow up album to Sahara Swing quite the challenge, and as a result, the band opted to release limited edition, hand-silkscreened EP's, which continued to show their deft handling of musics from Eastern and Northern Africa alongside Western psychedelia, jazz and funk. Whitefield gave himself 2013 to finish the album that would become Unstraight Ahead, which will see release on Now-Again this summer. Unstraight Ahead finds the band exploring territories even outside of the expansive scope of Sahara Swing. On this album, the West African sounds of Ghana and Mali meet the East African sounds of Mulatu Astatke's Ethiopian jazz and are tied together with the groove heavy experimentalism of The Malcouns' 70s Krautrock godfathers: Can, of course, but also more obscure and equally adventurous groups like Agitation Free, Ibliss and Tomorrow's Gift. \"We look to Middle Eastern funk and psychedelic fusions, and to various ethnic records for sound and phrasing,\" Whitefield states. \"We're trying to combine the global experimentalism of Krautrock with the backbeat of funk.\" This explains how songs in uneven meters - 5\/4, 7\/8 - always sound so accessible and natural on Unstraight Ahead. It's mainly an instrumental affair, but guest artists appear throughout, from across the African diaspora to those from the worldly Krautrock forebears of their German fatherland: it's Marja, daughter of Embryo founder Christian Burchard, whose vocals open the album. 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Featuring Chrissy Zebby Tembo. Guitarist\/vocalist Paul Ngozi's debut album - under the name Ngozi Family - is an important record: not just in the Zamrock genre, but in the global rock canon. Day of Judgement is an introduction to the most intense, raw and inimitable golden era Zamrock recorded, as it paved the way for a dozen Paul Ngozi and Ngozi Family releases (the most famous being drummer Chrissy Zebby Tembo's My Ancestors) that straddled the line between funk and punk, of driving hard rock and Zambian folk melodies and rhythms. Day of Judgement was released in 1976, the same year as other, now famous, Zamrock albums, from WITCH's Lazy Bones!! to Rikki Ililonga's Zambia. But it sounds like none of its counterparts. Part of that stems from its frenzied primitivism, the Ngozi Family's attempt to overcome a lack of musical acumen with sheer force of will. That will allowed Paul Ngozi to overcome a humble upbringing to become the most unlikely combination: Zamrock's most beloved star in its brief but now-well chronicled arc; the only musician to maintain his fame and recording prowess in the dark ages of the '80s; an inspiration to not only aging but young Zambians - and now others, beyond Zambia's borders. But one cannot imagine Paul Ngozi without this album, a full-on aural assault that sounds as wild nearly forty years after its release as it must have sounded in the developing Zamrock landscape from which it emerged. We listen to this anachronistic yet prescient album now as a wholly original, completely unpredictable album in line with those from mavericks from across the world - from the Ramones to the Sex Pistols to Death. 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