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THE BRAND NEW Orleans-based jazz-funk ensemble Galactic formed in 1994; originally an eight-piece, the group shortly pared right down to an instrumental sextet made up of guitarist Jeff Raines, organist Full Vogel, bassist Robert Mercurio, saxophonists Ben Ellman and Jason Mingledorff, and drummer Stanton Moore. Afterwards adding Crescent Town music …

Though they’re unknown to all or any but a select few within the American and Western underground, Detroit electro duo Ectomorph are on the best edge of a fresh wave of American dance artists reconnecting techno to its origins in Motor City funk and soul via electro. Like early Detroit …

Although underappreciated and woefully overlooked throughout their initial tenure jointly, the great early-’70s outfit Cymande (pronounced Sah-mahn-day) was among the initial to merge African rhythms with rock, funk, reggae, and soul. Made up of people who hailed from such spectacular locales as Guyana, Jamaica, and St. Vincent, the nine-man lineup …

Reviving the lightly funky but deeply soulful instrumental R&B appear of Booker T. & the MG’s as well as the Meters, the Diplomats of Great Audio not only verify that there surely is still a location for the mighty Hammond body organ in 21st hundred years pop music, but confirm …

Nigerian-born drummer Michael Babatunde Olatunji grew to worldwide fame from the past due ’50s along with his groundbreaking 1959 Capitol Information debut Drums of Interest. The record was a big success, remaining on the net for many years and standing among the first types of the American record-buying open public …

Although perhaps even more R&B than jazz, perhaps one of the most exclusive features of the brand new Orleans musical landscape may be the ritual observance of Mardi Gras and St. Joseph’s Time with the so-called Mardi Gras Indians. The custom of African-Americans masked in feathers continues to be traced …

Famous in deep soul circles for the disastrous ballad “Weep if you ask me,” singer Betty Harris was created in Orlando, Florida, in 1941 and elevated primarily in Alabama. The kid of preachers, her deep chapel origins conflicted with her wish to sing secular spirit music, with 17 she remaining …

Sly & the Family members Rock harnessed all the disparate musical and social developments from the past due ’60s, developing a outdoors, brilliant fusion of soul, rock, R&B, psychedelia, and funk that broke boundaries straight down with out a second thought. Led by Sly Rock, the Family members Rock was …

The Super Rail Music group, or the Super Rail Music group from the Buffet Resort de la Gare, Bamako, to provide them their name, may be Mali’s best-kept secret. Loved by globe music cognoscenti, they’ve hardly ever found an over-all audience, credited in large component to having just a few, …

Vulfpeck is a primarily instrumental, Los Angeles-based music group inspired with the basic R&B rhythms recorded with the Funk Brothers, the Meters, and potentially Booker T. & the MG’s. The founding people — bassist Joe Dart, keyboardist Woody Goss, previous My Dear Disco guitarist Theo Katzman, and keyboardist/drummer Jack port …