Artist : Henryk Debich
Title : String Beat
Genre : Funk
Year : 2008
Date : 07/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Bureau B BB11
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 38:05 min
Size : 57,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.na opak 04:32
02.bez metalu 03:48
03.gry 03:10
04.oscypka 03:53
05.standard in b 03:55
06.melodia z filmu shaft 02:42
07.opadajacy widnokrag 03:41
08.kameleon 05:21
09.obladi-oblada 02:38
10.badz wieczorem w dyskotece 04:25
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38:05 min
One of the most legendary and eagerly sought after treasures
of Polish jazz funk is about to see the light of day again.
First issued in 1975, Henryk DebichÆs STRING BEAT is to be
released on vinyl by the Hamburg label BUREAU B, thanks to
a friendly tip-off by Roskow Kretschmann of Jazzanova, an
expert on jazz and groove obscurities.
The vinyl was mastered from the original tapes belonging to
the Polish Muza label (catalogue number SX 1276).
It is no great secret amongst afficionados that an awful lot of
excellent jazz music has come out of Poland - and still does.
A particularly fruitful period for the Polish scene was the mid
-seventies and DebichÆs STRING BEAT is the pinnacle of that
era.
Funk and jazz connoisseurs have long since fallen in love with
it, so to call it a hidden gem does not quite do it justice.
What does remain a mystery, however, is what on earth
prompted the established director and arranger Henryk Debich,
with no previous as a funkateer, to create this jazz funk monster
together with the Lodz Radio Orchestra in 1975. All the more
mysterious, as this appears to have been an isolated incident.
He never returned to such musical territory before he died in
his hometown of Lodz in 2001, sadly depriving us of the
opportunity to ask him in person. Perhaps he was inspired by
the MPS label from the Black Forest, where many of his Eastern
European colleagues had displayed their expertise as jazz
musicians.
Even the author of the original liner notes, Andrzej Jaroszewski,
found it hard to contain his boundless amazement: ôNever before
have we heard an orchestra like this play like this. (...) If you meant
to buy this record, I salute you. If you bought it by chance, then you
struck lucky!ô
His enthusiasm is easy to fathom: razor sharp horns, a surgically
precise rhythm section and crystal clear arrangements û back then,
as now, one would have to search far and wide to find a similar
sound in the supposedly further advanced western world.
Only the dubious version of ôObladi û Obladaô interrupts the
flow a little à
Along with the SingalongaBeatles track, there are two other ôwesternô
inclusions on the album. Henryk Debich pays tribute to ôBlack Mosesô
Isaac Hayes (ôTheme from Shaftô) and takes a bow before Herbie
Hancock (ôKameleonô). Everything else was composed especially
for STRING BEAT by young, gifted Lodz composers.
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