Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Nacho Patrol - Futuristic Ababa
"Nacho Patrol's FUTURISTIC ABABA LP released on Menelik records (Addis Ababa, 1978/1979).
Ultra super-rare Ehtiopian jazzfunk LP with Raw vocoders, dirty vox organs, strutting wahwah guitars and hypnotic rhythms. Mnumbi Massaka was apparently the man behind Nacho Patrol. Due to the dictatorship that came to power in the late 70s he was forced to move to italy where he continued to work in the music business and did the soundtrack for the movie Maze of Violence. Just before moving he produced the album FUTURISTIC ABABA in 1978. It didn't take long before the dictatorship forbid this kind of music to be played or sold in music shops."
But well, its actually Legowelt. Pretty Amazing.
Kuni Kawachi & Flower Travelling Band - Kirikyogen
Almost 3 years ago a friend of mine gave me a CD with four mixes/compilations by Julian House, the graphic designer of the band Broadcast. I listened to them over and over and over since they are perfect working music. There was one song on it that really stood out for me and always was the climax of the compilation. It was a kind of Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin kind of feel but then in Japanese... This description got me a lot of weird looks by grumpy grey haired record store owners on my search for this song throughout the four corners of the world.
Fast forward in time, about a month ago my friend finally decides to tell me the playlists are on Broadcast's website... Ok...
So this song is by Kuni Kawachi and Flower Travelling Band and is called Kirikyogen.
The album which has the same title was produced in 1970 before the second album of FTB but because for some reason the producer Yuya Uchida wasn't satisfied with the results it wasn't released untill after FTB broke up.
This great song was also featured in 2001 on the compilation Love Peace & Poetry 4: Japanese Psychedelic Music.
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