Funk and Soul Fruitbowl
This is how it has to happen: 2019 has gone and here’s
another I missed in my ‘best of’ for that year. But of course, the good will
transcend, in this case time, so this
funk-fest of another era, musically speaking, performs that rising above and
standing out. The injections of hip-hop/rap make it all transmutable, but some
funkadelic guitar work and other 60s/70s beats ‘n’ rhythms present the musical
time warping.
It has a soulful groove too, and there is a gentle pace to its occasional
moves, playfully I think in repetitions as with Swangin’, the contraction a mimic of the laidbackness. There are
fuller and deeper instrumental layers as with Bronze Magic with its sax menagerie,
and then the funk-tight Midnight Goose where you can get loose like a midnight goose and it sounds like fun [echoes of
Prince playing, though he may have been copying…]. There’s more strut and jive
in The Critter Walk, so the movement continues.
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