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artist: The Whitefield Brothers
album: Earthology
label: Now Again
cat: NA 5047
year: 2010
genre: Funk
sub-genre: Soul
source: Cdda
grabber: EAC
encoder: LAME 3.97
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 51,7 MB
link: http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=52678
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 02:00 Joyful Exaltation (Feat. Bajka)
02 03:22 Safari Strut
03 04:25 Reverse Pt2 (Feat Percee P & Med)
04 02:25 Tiasho
05 03:46 Sad Nile
06 03:56 The Gift (Feat Edan Mr Lif)
07 02:04 Ntu
08 03:57 Pamukkale
09 02:16 Alin
10 04:23 Breakin Throught (Feat El Michels Affair)
11 03:22 Sem Yelesh
12 02:39 Lullaby For Lagos (Feat Quantic )
13 02:30 Chich
total time: 41:05 min
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│release notes.
Earthology is the latest album from The Whitefield Brothers, a
loose line up of musicians centred on the siblings Jan "JJ" and Max
"Muggy" Whitefield, formerly known as the founders of Munich's
legendary Poets Of Rhythm. Last heard from with their cult 2001
debut In The Raw (reissued this year on Now-Again Records),
Earthology finds the brothers blending In The Raw's rough funk -
"raw soul", in their terminology - with a broader eye on music from
around the globe, sending them in a rich new direction with
infinite possibilities
That "patchwork" involves a multitude of different guests from from
far and wide, including vocalists Edan, Mr. Lif, Bajka, Percee P
and MED, and musicians from the Antibalas, El Michels Affair,
Quantic, Express Brass Band and the Dap-Kings. They joined the
duo's group in experimental sessions taking place in New York,
Munich and Berlin.
To achieve the album's unique sound, the brothers employed an
incredible array of instruments and put in a huge amount of
research. The whole album is rooted in soul music but they combined
common instruments with unusual ones such as gongs and flutes from
Asia (Alin), xylophones and string instruments from Africa (Safari
Strut, Sem Yelesh) as well as central American percussion
instruments (Ntu) to add new colours to their music. The use of
African polyrhythms (Ntu) and Arabic rhythmical structures (Chich),
African pentatonic scales (Sad Nile) and oriental modes (Pamukkale)
set those instruments in the right context.
In The Raw pre-dated today's soul revival by nearly a decade,
although it never saw great sales: the record quickly went out of
print and the Soul-Fire label folded. Until the recent reissue The
Whitefield Brothers's debut album, regarded as a masterpiece by
those lucky enough to have heard it, was a highly desired
collectors item which provided an inspiring spark for today's funk
scene. The incredible and ambitious Earthology looks certain to set
that record straight.
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