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From hard rock and roll, rock, and punk to spirit, funk and disco, the ’70s will be the decade that won’t die. In the 21st hundred years, there is absolutely no lack of performers who’ve a ’70s obsession, as well as the performers they’re obsessing over could possibly be anyone from Led Zeppelin to Donna Summer season to Rufus & Chaka Khan towards the Sex Pistols. Regarding Groovopolis, that ’70s obsession is normally a soul-jazz/jazz-funk obsession; their available, groove-oriented work is normally a throwback to a period when improvisers like Grover Washington, Jr., the Crusaders, Charles Earland, Lou Donaldson, and Funk, Inc. had been determined to create instrumental jazz attractive to spirit and funk aficionados. The Groovopolis task got underway in New Orleans in 2001, when guitarist Christopher Cortez became a member of pushes with trumpeter Jay Webb, keyboardist Dean Fransen, bassist Lenny DiMartino, and drummer Jeff Mills. By that point, Cortez had recently been documenting as a single artist; his have albums possess included Territorial Essential and Talamasca. Nearly immediately the associates of Groovopolis began using George Clinton-like terminology in the quintet’s pr announcements. One particular humorous pr announcements stated which the Crescent Town outfit’s objective was to “whet the urge for food of the earth using their groovolicious music, thus making a contagious, enjoyable condition referred to as groovitis” — quite simply, these were sounding nearly the same as Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic empire circa 1976 (when The Mothership Connection as well as the Clones of Dr. Funkenstein had been released). But non-e of the materials on Groovopolis’ self-titled debut album is normally vocal-oriented funk; everything over the disk is normally instrumental soul-jazz/jazz-funk. Groovopolis is normally even more Crusaders than Bootsy Collins, even more David Sanborn than Typical White Band, even more Funk, Inc. than Ohio Players. Groovopolis began documenting that self-titled record in March 2001 and completed documenting it in Feb 2002. Furthermore to portion as both manufacturer and engineer, Cortez composed a lot of the materials. About half a year after the documenting and mixing had been finished, Cortez released Groovoplis’ 1st album by himself label, Blue Bamboo Music.