The MEBUSAS lone LP Blood Brothers combines elements of American Soul and Funk, Psychedelic Rock, Latin/Carribean rhythms and traditional African music. Innovative arrangements, deep rhythms, and top-notch playing make this 1973 album a true classic. This is the first ever re-issue of this landmark album.
Tracklisting:
01 - Son Of Mr. Bulldog (5:26)
02 - Blood Brothers (6:20)
03 - I Wanna Do It (4:05)
04 - Return-Pada (5:48)
05 - Mr. Bulldog (5:20)
06 - Grooving Out On Life (3:47)
07 - Kwashioko (2:57)
08 - Do You Know (3:26)
09 - Good Bye Friends (3:29)
"New York-based Antibalas was formed in 1998 by musicians from King Changó, the Soul Providers, and the Daktaris. Influenced by Nigerian Afro-beat, American soul, and Latin dance grooves, Antibalas started playing at clubs around New York, hosting a weekend party called Africalia, giving them the opportunity to perform their particular style based on a combination of different cultures immersed in the band. After recording Liberation Afrobeat, the live album Live in New York! Summer 1999 was released. Liberation Afro Beat, Vol. 1 was issued in early 2001. The group returned to recording in 2004 and issued Who Is This America? on the Rope-a-Dope label, followed by Security on Anti Records in 2007."
allmusic.com
Tracklisting
1. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Si, Se Puede (9:54)
2. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Dirt And Blood (8:56)
3. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Battle Of The Species (6:28)
4. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - N.E.S.T.A. (Never Ever Submit To Authority) (7:17)
5. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Musicawi Silt (Live At The Jazz Cafe, London) (9:29)
6. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Uprising (7:24)
7. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - El Machete (9:53)
8. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - World War IV (Live At The Jazz Cafe, London) (6:58)
1. Lucky Brown - Still Listening (4:41)
2. Lucky Brown - Jesse's Party (3:59)
3. Lucky Brown - Redbeard (3:33)
4. Lucky Brown - Don't Go Away (3:31)
5. Lucky Brown - Potato Cakes Pt.1 (4:20)
6. Lucky Brown - Potato Cakes Pt.2 (3:37)
7. Lucky Brown - She's A Hard Working Woman (3:32)
8. Lucky Brown - Steamed Greens Pt.1 (4:04)
9. Lucky Brown - Steamed Greens Pt.2 (3:59)
10. Lucky Brown - Deal With It (5:50)
11. Lucky Brown - The Fresh One (3:54)
12. Lucky Brown - Scatterbrain (3:36)
13. Lucky Brown - Izzy Come, Izzy Go (4:31)
14. Lucky Brown - Space Dream (5:35)
Evil's Dynamite Band was a Soul Fire records creation and was produced by Phillip Lehman, Leon Michels and Jeff Silverman (Nick Movshon was also a key member in recording that album along with Homer Steinweiss and Quincy Bright).
Tracklisting
1. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Kalhari (3:53)
2. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Heavy, Heavy...Heavy (4:19)
3. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Mean Scene (3:50)
4. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Beer, (So Nice) Right On (3:59)
5. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - The Evil D's (2:57)
6. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Sunday Kind of Love (2:52)
7. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Flames of Darkness (3:55)
8. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Backwards Intentions (4:58)
9. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Everglades Part 1 (3:11)
10. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Everglades Part 2 (2:57)
11. JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - My Beach, My Waves, Fuck Off!
JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Heavy, Heavy...Heavy (4:19)
"The Daktaris were an Afro-beat group on the New York-based funk revival label Desco, recording compact, Fela Kuti-style grooves that sounded as though they'd come straight out of 1970s Nigeria. At first, Desco did nothing to discourage that perception, packaging their 1998 album Soul Explosion to look like an authentically African collector's dream, and even giving some of the band members Nigerian aliases. But in reality, the Daktaris were Brooklyn-based studio musicians, many of them white, many of whom had already been assembled by Desco heads Gabriel Roth and Phillipe Lehman as the label's house band, the Soul Providers. Besieged by inquiries about the music's origins and demand for a Daktaris tour, Roth and Lehman soon acknowledged the hoax, but given the quality of the album, the backlash wasn't enormously great. There was no follow-up to the Daktaris' initial session, but some of the members formed a new Afro-beat revivalist group called Antibalas in the spring of 1998."
allmusic.com
Tracklisting
1. The Daktaris - Musicawa Silt (3:04)
2. The Daktaris - Musicawa Slit Part 2 (2:24)
3. The Daktaris - Quiet Man Is Dead Man (4:39)
4. The Daktaris - Modern Technology (3:58)
5. The Daktaris - Super Afro-Beat (3:45)
6. The Daktaris - Give It Up Turnit Loose (3:53)
7. The Daktaris - Eltsuhg Ibal Lasiti (5:09)
8. The Daktaris - Daktari Walk (4:53)
9. The Daktaris - Voodoo Soul Stew (4:27)
10. The Daktaris - Upside Down (4:13)
