Friday, May 18, 2018

New Stream In Jazz Vol. 12 ~ Japanese Jazz Funk Experience


Compilation series dedicated to the golden era of the japanese jazz scene through the years 60's-70's. Following vol. 3 & 9, this compilation celebrates one more time the jazz groove into the boogie sphere, highly tinted of slapping bass, disco rhythms & funky beats, including twelve pure jazz funk tracks recorded between 1976-1982 featuring Terumasa Hino, Jun Fukamachi, Hiromasa Suzuki, Ryo Kawasaki, Native Son, Sadao Watanabe, Naoya Matsuoka, Mikio Masuda, Toshiyuki Honda, Jiro Inagaki & Chuck Rainey Rhythm Section, Kenji Omura, Kazumi Watanabe & Lee RitenourCompiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Mary Afi Usuah - African Woman


Year : 1978
Label : Clover Sound
Genre : Soul, Rock
Style : African Funk, Afrobeat, Disco

Mary Afi Usuah was an a opera former singer to the raw power, reminding Betty Davis or Tina Turner's voices and Sly & The Family Stone for the music, one of the greatest songstress than the African continent has produced. From 1969 to 1978, she only released three albums (the first was reissued by the Frank Gossner's label, Voodoo Funk), and toured in Europe as chorister for Duke Ellington, Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin, before returning to Lagos to take a position at the Ministry of Culture. "African Woman" is the meeting between soul music, afrobeat and nigerian highlife including pure funk (What’s A Woman To Do), reggae (Our Generation) and disco sounds (Tell Me Now). For "African Woman", She composed all lyrics, in english and african languages, supported by the Heads Funk Band, aka Akwassa, featuring bassist Joe "Castro" Matthews and guitarist Felix Odey, also in charge of the songs arrangements.  All lyrics by Mary Afi Usuah, arranged by Sylvester Akaiso, Joe Matthews and Felix Odey.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Eko - Funky Disco Music


Year : 2018/1979
Label : Africa Seven/Dragon Phénix
Genre : Jazz, World
Style : Disco, Afrobeat, Afro Funk

Eko Roosevelt, nicknamed as the camroonian Quincy Jones, is an arranger, producer & keyboardist, member of the Dikalo group founded in 1976.  The sound of Eko, as the one of his fellow countryman Manu Dibango, is a blend of Makossa music tainted with funk, disco, soul & Jazz. During several years, he was an pianist accompagnist for various french variété singers as Johnny Hallyday or Claude François, and was conductor of the Cameroon's national orchestra. "Funky Disco Music" is Eko's third album including punchy horns, afro-rhythms and groovy bass lines featuring Vicky Edimo from Dikalo. The album was recorded in France at the famous studio Barclay, it opens on the afro-caribbean funky swing song "Funky Disco Music" and closes on the smooth jazz ballad "Emen' Ango", passing by the african folk pop song "Me To A De Try My Own" and the two afro-disco-club gems, the favorites of DJs : "Ndolo Embe Mulema" & "Bowa'a Mba Ngebe".
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