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The subtitle of this album is '1968-1975: A Global Psychedelic Funk Curriculum'. Contrary to the sub title, it states on the back cover that the years covered are 1967-1980 (which is correct). Despite the promise in the title, this is a largely underwhelming compilation.
Opener 'Su Derenin Sulari' by Turkey's Husunu Ozkartal features some excellent fuzzy saz & heavy beats and is not dissimilar to Mustafa Ozkent's work from the same period (but with a more traditional Turkish vibe). 'Respect' by Kukumbas is tedious & generic Afro-funk and Mulatu Astatke is, for the most part, drowned out by the female vocalists on 'Alemiye'. 'The Man Who Must Leave' by South Korea's Kim Sun is, after an interesting opening first minute, a rather dull, near eight minute dirge that only really recovers in the closing 90 seconds - anything from Kim Jung Mi's early 70's work would have been much better suited. Iranian Mahr Pooya's 'Ghalileh-ye Lily' is an average Middle Eastern/Bollywood hybrid and Wadih Essafi's 'Aandak Baharia Ya Raypess' has a heavy traditional Middle Eastern sound.
Respite is offered by Armando Sciascia's moody 'Circuito Chiuso' which wouldn't sound out of place on an early 70's Italian crime thriller soundtrack. 'What You Can Do In Your Life' by Greece's Petalouda features some heavy beats and fuzz guitar and is one of the few songs that has both funk and psych vibes, as does Staff Carpenborg's excellent and sparse 'All Men Shall Be Brothers of Ludwig'. Closing track 'Dagon' by French outfit Eskaton is, by some distance, the best thing here. Heavy distorted bass, synths and wordless Italian style female vocals guide this 10 minute stunner.
Overall, this is a poorly conceived and themed compilation that at times steers too close to broadsheet endorsed coffee table 'World Music'. Whilst there is nothing particularly bad here there is, closing song aside, nothing particularly outstanding either. The market is saturated with compilations of obscure 60's & 70's global sounds. Most are geographically specific (Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, etc.) and work better than this. 2½ stars.
Housed in a digipak with extensive notes and photos, it has a running time of 72 minutes.
Opener 'Su Derenin Sulari' by Turkey's Husunu Ozkartal features some excellent fuzzy saz & heavy beats and is not dissimilar to Mustafa Ozkent's work from the same period (but with a more traditional Turkish vibe). 'Respect' by Kukumbas is tedious & generic Afro-funk and Mulatu Astatke is, for the most part, drowned out by the female vocalists on 'Alemiye'. 'The Man Who Must Leave' by South Korea's Kim Sun is, after an interesting opening first minute, a rather dull, near eight minute dirge that only really recovers in the closing 90 seconds - anything from Kim Jung Mi's early 70's work would have been much better suited. Iranian Mahr Pooya's 'Ghalileh-ye Lily' is an average Middle Eastern/Bollywood hybrid and Wadih Essafi's 'Aandak Baharia Ya Raypess' has a heavy traditional Middle Eastern sound.
Respite is offered by Armando Sciascia's moody 'Circuito Chiuso' which wouldn't sound out of place on an early 70's Italian crime thriller soundtrack. 'What You Can Do In Your Life' by Greece's Petalouda features some heavy beats and fuzz guitar and is one of the few songs that has both funk and psych vibes, as does Staff Carpenborg's excellent and sparse 'All Men Shall Be Brothers of Ludwig'. Closing track 'Dagon' by French outfit Eskaton is, by some distance, the best thing here. Heavy distorted bass, synths and wordless Italian style female vocals guide this 10 minute stunner.
Overall, this is a poorly conceived and themed compilation that at times steers too close to broadsheet endorsed coffee table 'World Music'. Whilst there is nothing particularly bad here there is, closing song aside, nothing particularly outstanding either. The market is saturated with compilations of obscure 60's & 70's global sounds. Most are geographically specific (Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, etc.) and work better than this. 2½ stars.
Housed in a digipak with extensive notes and photos, it has a running time of 72 minutes.
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A must have for the most diehard Psych and Noise fans!
3 Nov 2009
Format:Audio CD
80% of this compilation is fantastic stuff that will blow your mind. It moves from Beatlesque influences to just straight up freak-out, with plenty of odd rhythms and weird songwriting elements and transitions. "The Man Who Must Leave" has some very relaxing pastoral organ, juxtaposed against smashing drums and the most blistering, dirty guitar of this set. "What You Can Do In Your Life" has a 'Fela Kuti...don't you take me on no bad trip' kinda vibe. "Doe Pajereh' / 'Ghabilehe Leili" very much resembles a Spanish Blaxploitation soundtrack, with strings and everything. "The Feed-back" is undoubtedly the most far out piece here; seeming to belong on a Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music compilation. "Circuito Chiuso" sounds like a funky trip to Dante's Inferno, and "Rakset El Fadaa" is a superb merging of Raga and Surf guitar unlike anything else. "The Big Search" has a bass sound and hook that could put it on the banned episode of Sesame Street where they shroom, play pinball and count sideways. Even a couple of European Classical bits are used for intros on "...Brothers Of Ludwig" (Beethoven, duh) and "Mevlana Boyle Dede" (Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra"). The whole thing ends with the nearly 10 minute "Dagon", which could easily fit in with the Ennio Morricone "Crime & Dissonance" compilation; sounding like an Italian horror movie until it unexpectedly hits the strangest Funkadelic Vs. Chromesturzende Neubauten beatdown put to tape! Tracks 1,2,3,10 are a bit too World music and not enough Psych for my tastes; but this set is a must have for the most diehard Psych and Noise fans.
More funk please.
11 Jan 2012
Format:Audio CD
This CD is interesting as a world music comp. But it is a little underwhelming as far as raw psych-funk power. This is not music you could play at a house party. I still want to hear some of the other releases by this label.
'Psych-Funk 101: 1968-1975 - A Global Psychedelic Funk Collection' (World Psychedelic) Varioua Artists
15 Dec 2011
Format:Audio CD
Fourteen track compilation CD - of just what the title says. Tunes from unknown / lesser-known bands and artists of the psychedelic / funk genre. Thought that this particular sub-genre works better for some than others. Couple of the performers worth mentioning are Husnu Ozkartal Orkestrasii, Kakumbas (a bit Gong-like), Armanda Sciascia, Omar Khorshid (appears to have three lp's out), the Lebanese singer & songwriter Wadih El Safi (this artist has at least two lp's out) and Eskaton. Most of these artists look to have just one song out - possibly exclusive to this CD. Overall, not a bad pick.
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