Funky fuzzy psychedelic tracks from 60s and 70s Nigeria, Iran, Turkey, Russia, South Korea and other exotic countries.
Egon helped out with the licensing of some tracks for this album, the definitive survey for students of the global phenomenon of psychedelic funk music, covering the “golden years” of the movement, from approximately 1967 until 1980.
Limited Edition. Deluxe digipak CD including 36 page full color booklet.
Surely one of the most exquisite, well-thought out and inspiring compilations of the year, Psych Funk 101 introduces prospective psychonauts to the global phenomenon of psychedelic funk music and covers the "Golden Years"of the movement, from approximately 1967 until 1980 with a selection of tracks which have never been previously reissued before!!! Presented as an in-depth lesson in the distinctions, traits and characteristics of the style, this stunning disc is a veritable treasure trove of essential Psychedelic Funk spanning the planet, from South Korea to Lebanon backed up with weighty liner notes priming the listener on each individual track. Particularly worthy of note are tracks like 'The Feed-Back' from Italian avant-garde improv super-band, The Group, featuring Ennio Morricone's lysergic trumpet lines panned to infinity while mysterious session drummer Renzo Restuccia provides killer breakbeats, or Staff Carpenborg And The Electric Corona's 'All Men Shall Be Brothers Of Ludwig' featuring a Beethoven lifted intro and superior Can-style psyche-rock with infectious JB's style breaks and a mindblowing dubscape of effects. The recording of Mehr Pooya's Iranian psyche treat 'Ghabileh-ye Lily' is about as far out as they come, but matched for weird funkiness by George Garanian With The Melodiya Jazz Ensemble on 'The Big Search', filling a gap in our knowledge of Russian psyche-funk with a scarily funky-but-tripped excersize in proto-new wave. Some of the names here are worth the price of admission alone, but we implore you check this disc out without fail. Your mind will thank you for it! An essential purchase for any followers of the Finders Keepers imprint or psychedelic music in general. Amazing.
1. Husnu Ozkartal Orkestrasi - 'Su Derenin Sulari'
2. Kukumbas - 'Respect'
3. Mulatu Astatke - 'Alemiye' (feat. Belaynesh Wubante / Assegedetch Asfaw)
4. Kim Sun - 'The Man Who Must Leave'
5. Petalouda - 'What You Can Do In Your Life'
6. Mehr Pooya - 'Doe Pajereh' / 'Ghabilehe Leili'
7. Staff Carpenborg And The Electric Corona - 'All Men Shall Be Brothers Of Ludwig'
8. The Group (Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza) - 'The Feed-back'
9. Armando Sciascia - 'Circuito Chiuso'
10. Wadih Essafi - 'Aandak Baharia Ya Rayess'
11. Omar Khorshid - 'Rakset El Fadaa'
12. Metin H. Alatli - 'Mevlana Boyle Dede'
13. George Garanian With The Melodiya Jazz Ensemble - 'The Big Search'
14. Eskaton - 'Dagon'
Psych-Funk 101 (1968-1975) is the debut
release from World Psychedelic Funk
Classics and presents itself as 'a
global psychedelic funk curriculum',
complete with a 'course description' and
'supplemental listening' in its copious
notes (found either on the handsome
gatefold sleeve of the vinyl or the
36-page booklet of the CD).
The title may be a little misleading
since some tracks contain funk and some
contain psych with a geniune melding of
the two not always apparent, but
nonetheless this is chock full of
amazing and eye-opening stuff. The only
names I was previously familiar with
were Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu
Astatke (who doesn't quite reach his
usual heights here) and French Zeuhl
dudes Eskaton (who do) but I'll
certainly be investigating the others
further, particularly Turkey's Husnu
Ozkartal Oskestrasi and Italy's Armando
Sciassia whose bassy grooves pretty much
blew me away.
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