★Funky Planet
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Bass, Backing Vocals – Micheal Starling (Nose Raoof Shabazz)
Drums – Warrick Jones Jr. (Warrick Sharreef)
Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Piano, Clavinet [Moog], Backing Vocals – Glenn Piper (Rahman Ali)
Engineer – Ely Bontempo
Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Vincent Moore (It's That Sound), Walter Pugh (Super Pep)
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Robert Dunston (Jamil Ali Faraqan), Ronald Bailey (Rashied Nadir El Mumin), Valerie Lipford (Nadiyah Ameenah Muhammad)
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Synthesi…
The Inner Dimensions Of...
** pre-order, delayed to Jan 20th ** Who might be Rick Mason that his inner dimension is so utterly interesting people pay about 800 US$ for the sole record he and his band RARE FEELINGS produced in 1977? Well, we will now find out. He turns all of his interior inside out and gets you folks into a state of trance listening and dancing to his raging funk’n’soul music. Organ, bass guitar, rhythm guitar, drums and percussions build a simmering fundament for the eruptive yet sophisticated performanc…
The Glitter of the City
This is a holy grail of an album not many people actually seem to know about. I heard about 1978 as initial release date but it could be some archive material as well because the music sounds more vintage. Strange drum patterns, cool jazzy melodies and a tenor sax going crazy make the first tune and you could imagine Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock jamming. Suddenly this tune, “Royal walk” turns weird. A spoken word part sets in which feels like the guy (Ron Everet…