Cymande ?– Cymande LP First UK Issue Gatefold 1973 NM
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Cymande ?– Cymande
Label: Alaska ?– ALKA 100Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Land: UK
Jahr: 1973
Alaska Records
12 The Quadrangle, Cambridge Square, London W2
Alaska Records are distributed throughout the UK by EMI Records Ltd.
Printed and made by Garrod and Lofthouse International Ltd.
All selections published by Alaska Music Ltd.
An Alaska Production
Recorded at De Lane Lea Studios, Dean St. London W1
? 1973
All selections published by Alaska Music
Track listing
"Zion I" - 3:02 "One More" - 3:06 "Getting It Back" - 4:16 "Listen" - 4:37 "Rickshaw" - 5:50 "Dove" - 10:50 "Bra" - 5:00 "The Message" - 4:19 "Ras Tafarian Folk Song" - 3:08
LP: NM
Cover: EX+ - EX++
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...The tracks "Brothers on the Slide" and "Bra" became staples of the rare groove scene that developed in London and New York nightclubs during the 1980s. It was not until the 1990s that they reaped any financial rewards, as their music became a popular source for samplers. Cymande's original albums are still widely sought-after by DJs and funk aficionados. Perhaps the band's best known recording is the soulful dancefloor filler called "Bra", which was later sampled by the American hip-hop group DE La Soul and used as a breakbeat record by Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash...
(wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymande)
Invigorating head music done Rastafarian style by Cymande. "Zion I" is a spiritual chant put to music, setting the mood for Cymande. A laid-back "One More" lulls you into subliminal meditation before "Getting It Back" jolts you into some scintillating Jamaican funk-fusion. There's a message in many of Cymande's cuts, with "Listen," and "Bra" (a recognition of the women's lib movement), the most inspiring. Both are sung with passion, and are skillfully executed; the former is slow and painstaking in its message, while "Bra" slaps you upside the head with a stirring sax solo and bass-fueled vamp. An air of supreme coolness permeates Cymande, unusual for a first effort written by members of the band. Cymande sound like they have done this before; nowhere is this more evident than on the beautiful "Dove," a gorgeous concoction of lead guitar, tambourines, haunting backing vocals, and percussion, with the horns used as sparingly as table-seasoning on a gourmet dish. Along with "Bra," the group's most popular cut is "The Message" -- it's difficult keeping body parts still on this grooving mutha. All in all, Cymande is a marvelous collection that premiered a fine funk band.
(allmusic.com/album/cymande-mw0000674354)
Excellent quality sound on this pressing. Recorded in the UK and also the first UK press, strangely released one year later than some other places in the world.
(comment on discogs.com/Cymande-Cymande/release/809744)
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