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  • Audio CD (19 April 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B000E6ETDO
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,936 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Extraits
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Magical World 4:22£0.69
Listen  2. Amen 4:01£0.69
Listen  3. Rapid Transit0:37£0.69
Listen  4. Turn Me On 3:06£0.69
Listen  5. Respect 3:04£0.69
Listen  6. Pink Noise0:22£0.69
Listen  7. I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun 5:49£0.69
Listen  8. A-Muse 4:02£0.69
Listen  9. Sunshine Of Your Love 5:07£0.69
Listen10. Sursum Mentes0:43£0.69
Listen11. Memory Band 3:22£0.69
Listen12. Didn't Want To Have To Do It 3:14£0.69
Listen13. May Our Amens Be True 3:04£0.69
Listen14. Tales Of Brave Ulysses 4:32£0.69
Listen15. The Sea & She 3:31£0.69
Listen16. Hey, Love 4:11£0.69
Listen17. Song For Everyman 5:32£0.69
Listen18. Love Is 5:20£0.69


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Listen  1. The Salt Of The Earth 4:57£0.69
Listen  2. Love Has Fallen On Me 4:18£0.69
Listen  3. If I Sing My Song 3:39£0.69
Listen  4. The Weight 3:24£0.69
Listen  5. The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp 4:38£0.69
Listen  6. Living Alone 2:53£0.69
Listen  7. Love Me Now 2:45£0.69
Listen  8. Want You To Know 3:02£0.69
Listen  9. I Got My Mojo Working 2:32£0.69
Listen10. This Town 3:25£0.69
Listen11. We're Going Wrong 3:21£0.69
Listen12. Life Could 4:22£0.69
Listen13. Teach Me How To Fly 3:17£0.69
Listen14. V.I.P. 3:06£0.69
Listen15. Let Them Talk 4:25£0.69

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Album Description
This stunning, 34-track compilation brings together the best tracks from their six albums released between 1967 and 1971 - including the group's career high point, I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (notably covered by US producers the Masters At Work as Nuyorican Soul).

Also includes the original version of the Freelance Hellraiser's current club hit Want You To Know.

Packaged in a stylish Chess 'digi-pak' with new liner notes and photos.

About the Artist
Rotary Connection was essentially a multi-cultural concept group put together by Marshall Chess an attempt to freshen-up Chess Records' image, keep up with the times and spearhead his Cadet Concept subsidiary label. Their 'psychedelic chamber soul', featuring dramatic string arrangements and the stunning five-octave voice of Minnie Riperton, continues to sound ambitious and progressive decades after the group's departure.

Their profile was enhanced in the mid 80s and early 90s by Hip-Hop producers and DJs whose need for increasingly unusual 'breaks' led them to sample the group's work (look out for A Tribe Called Quest's plundering of the guitar part from Memory Band for the 1990 international hit Bonita Applebum).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very fine compilation of a unique band, 28 Aug 2006
By russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger" (halifax, west yorks) - See all my reviews
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Rotary Connection was the brain child of Marshall Chess, son Of Leonard Chess who along with his brother Philip had founded Chess Records, home to blues luminaries like Howlin Wolf, Bo Didley and Muddy Waters. The band was an attempt to freshen up Chess's image and propel the label forward toward the zeitgeist of the times which in the late 60,s meant at least some psychedelic influence. Add to that the subtle percolation of soul, jazz and funk and electric bolts of rock and the music was a pretty heady brew. Even more so when adding Charles Stepney's ambitious string arrangements, exotic eastern instrumentation and the complex vocal arrangements from Sidney Barnes, Judy Hauff and the five octave range of the gospel influenced Minnie Ripperton .
This excellent compilation takes in 33 tracks from their six albums which saw the band go through numerous lines up changes, the two constants being Ripperton and Stepney. The best known track is the magical "I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun" which was covered by Nuyorican Soul and is the reason that I, and possibly many others, became aware of this band. Stylistically the band veer from the multi-harmonics of "Amen" to the portentous brooding "Sunshine Of Your Love" to the simple acoustic beauty of "A-Muse" to the odd brief colourful ditty's like "Sursum Mentes". They do take the odd liberty with overbearing cartoonish sludge such as "Memory Band"( which incidentally A Tribe Called Quest sampled the guitar break for their hit "Bonita Applebum " which is fair enough as it's the one decent part of the song) or songs like "The Sea & She" in which they rather over stretch themselves. Rotary Connection were also not adverse to doing cover versions such as Hendrix's "The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp", Otis Redding's "Respect" and the some what bizarre interpretation of Creams "Takes Of Brave Ulysses". The bands superb version of "Song For Everyman" is the highlight of the covers.
After the bands final album in 1971,"Hey Love" was a commercial flop , which was something they struggled with all their career., the group disbanded with only Ripperton going on to achieve anything significant as a solo artist. Rotary Connection is one of those bands more appreciated posthumously than they ever were in their own time and their critical re-appraisal is well deserved. "Black Gold" is a fabulous way to make the acquaintance of this unique and under appreciated set of musicians. Theirs truly is, as the gloriously harmonic opening song says, "A Magical World".


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