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Actually I can't say this track qualifies as 'fonkay' but certainly in relation to the rest of the release it is pretty funky. As a result of hours in the car and on the road of late, I've been going through full albums instead of just mixes and I finally heard this track on Return to Cookie Mountain. I really like this album, all sorts of great production and arrangements and the lead singer gets into all sorts of voices, including early Ozzie-esque moments. Anyway this one appears to be a bit of an afro-beat homage with some heavy Peter Gabriel influence.
Do my email accounts deceive me? No FF posts today? I can't let it stand. And since it's been almost exactly a year since contrabandwidth submitted them for FF, I feel a Praxis double dip is order.
http://mog.com/contrabandwidth/blog_post/70667
They were/are? a supergroup of sorts put together by Bill Laswell. On this, their first album, they included Bootsy, Bernie Worrell, Buckethead, Brain (from Primus) and several others. Bootsy brings the spacebass, Buckethead shreds, Bernie gets all over the place and there's lots of shrill and sometimes weird little flourishes. Some of it would definitely be appropriate for Metal Wednesday.
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Uh , hello? Yes it's Funky, I'll say. Definitely my favorite Bill Laswell assembly-style album. Some of everyone in the band's finest playing on record. And also often funky.
Now this is funky:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1548365306623561800
Bumpalicious! It was always hard for me to sort out the flood of Laswell Funk releases. I spose its time to go back and reconoiter..Nice one. My funk will return next week probably. I'll have a big paper to write so I'm sure I'll want to MOG .
Dead Man Walking is such a great track. To answer your question Praxis is alive but right now seem to be concentrating on releasing live shows from previous years. Here is a link to all things Laswell...
I had planned to be chomping at the bit by now with a Wednesday, April 30 departure for New Orleans and weekend 2 of JazzFest. Unfortunately, some heavy family stuff has come between me and fun travel. So, I post this track as very belated Funky Friday Fess homage.
My path to the Wild Tchoupitoulas is kinda interesting. Baudolino put up a Wild Magnolias post that I dug quite a bit and which inspired me to go grab one of their albums. Then I mention to my boss (the one from Louisiana) that I am digging on the Wild Magnolias and he says, "yeah they're good, but the Wild Tchoupitolouas are even better." And he was kind enough to let me borrow some product.
So here is "Hey Mama," and the source of what I was tickled to learn is the primary sample used in "Cumin in Ya Ear" (with a mike and drummer) by The Goats.
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That's a bummer, I hope things work out with your family issues. You definitely made lemonade from the lemons..Great Post.
From my POV neither record outshines the other..The Wild Tchoupitoulas has a little reggae lilt to it and really is a Meters/Neville's record, while the Magnolias are a Willie Tee/Gaturs record, that funks a little harder. Both records take parade classics as a template and add their colors. Different, but essential on both counts, for anybody interested in NOLA sounds.
I am totally on board with your analysis of the two Wild NO groups, Cody. I like the T's, but I think the Magnolias do funk a little harder.
The constant stream of love for NOLA music makes me so pissed that law exams infringe on my ability to disopver the musical terrain here. Hopefully my tuition at least trickles down to keep the love going.
Great post.
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That's a really interesting combination of styles. At first so spooky and then the
trumpets start surprisingly and change the mood of the song. Nice one.