Release Date: 12/06/26 - Sahara Swing (2LP)
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Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics’ percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany.
Artist: Karl Hector & The Malcouns
Genre: Jazz/Funk
Label: Now-Again Records
Prior to Sahara Swing, Karl Hector only appeared on one 7-inch, from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich-based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not “world music” – but an album that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on “the one.”
Tracklisting:
A1 When The Sun Breaks Through
A2 Nyx
A3 Followed Path
A4 Transition >J<
B1 Sahara Swing
B2 Psycles
B3 Transition >I<
B4 Koloko Pt. 1
B5 Debere
C1 Transition >Z<
C2 Jabore Pt. 3
C3 Mystical Brotherhood
C4 Timely Interuption
C5 Transition >B<
C6 Mellow (Version)
D1 Rush Hour
D2 Transition >W<
D3 Toure Samar
D4 Passau Run"
About the artist
Based in Munich, the multidimensional Karl Hector & the Malcouns play a wildly hybridized meld of Krautrock, neo-psychedelia, jazz-funk, and Afro-beat.
This Vinyl product is a:
- Standard Pressing
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