ARTiST: Amp Fiddler
TiTLE: Afro Strut
LABEL: Genuine
GENRE: Funk
TiME: 56:25 min
SiZE: 83,2 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Aug-28-2006
RELEASE DATE: Aug-28-2006
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Faith 03:32
02. If I Dont 03:19
03. Right Where You Are (Edit) 03:20
04. Find My Way 03:56
05. Empower 06:28
06. I Need You 04:01
07. You Could Be Mine 04:12
08. Heaven 05:17
09. Seven Mile 04:30
10. Funky Monday 04:55
11. Ridin 03:27
12. Hustle 09:28
Release Notes:
Retail reasons:
1) Contains a hidden track called Dope which starts
at 04:32 in Track 12. This track is missing from the
previous rip.
2) Overall higher bitrates that suggest that the
previous rip did not come from a fully mastered cd.
Enjoy!
'Afro Strut', Amp's second solo album, finds him
stepping onwards and upwards as he continues to
define his own, very singular style. It's also a
record made with reference to a wider world a world
that has warmly embraced Amp and his music. Two
tracks 'Right Where You Are' and 'Ridin' were
recorded in Manchester with electronica producer
(and former New Fast Automatic Daffodil) Justin
"Only Child" Crawford. The title track, which
features the veteran Afro-funk pioneer Tony Allen
(who recorded his parts in Paris), appears as a
series of linking fragments, giving the record a
strong foundation in the motherland. Between and
around these pieces, Amp weaves songs that speak of
the personal and political, the sacred and profane.
It is almost as if, while his music has grown and
headed out across geographical and emotional
boundaries, his songs have homed in on those things
he knows best, those feelings he can most clearly
express.
Amp never cut the stereotypical figure of the
sideman with frustrated solo ambitions: instead, he
bided his time, and his solo debut, the critically
acclaimed 'Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly', reaped the
rewards. An album that benefited from its maker's
relaxed attitude to music and his consequent
stylistic maturity, 'Waltz' put Amp and his songs
centre stage for the first time; both he and his
ever-growing audience liked how that felt. So now,
two and a half years on, 'Afro Strut' is the sound
of him taking a decisive step forward. 'Ghetto Fly'
set an impressive benchmark for Amp's future music
to match, but with 'Afro Strut' he shows how to
follow up a cult classic. The most striking contrast
between the two records is in song structure:
Fiddler has tweaked his formula, and replaced some
of 'Ghetto Flys' looser jam-based compositions with
tighter, more traditional song forms, and as a
consequence his lyrics, which had tended towards the
universal but unspecific, have now solidified.