Donald Byrd ethiopian knights
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Appreciate batches!This album kills me every time. This album to me is so much funkier than alot of raers and grails.What are some other common to medium raers that ya'll like better than some 1 tracker private label dookie?
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gotta love the intro to the title track.
I kind of agree here. As good as it is, i'll take
over that any day.
Myself, I like to form opinions on records I've heard at least 5-10 times. Not records I vaguely remember needle dropping for breaks.
I like ethiopian knights cause the songs are 16, 17 minutes long and they just smoke throughout.
To each their own though...
not only do i remember the cover having a darkly-lit photo, but donald didn't look too happy in that picture. here he is surrounded by all this carnival-like shit, but he's lookin MEAN for some reason
Over produced, over produced, over produced...what does this really mean?
To heavy and/or slick on the instrumentation?
The Mizells and Stepney always get this tied to their work and I honestly don't understand why. Can someone explain this to me?
means that their songs are too smooth for someone like me that like raw sounds like Ethiopian knights .. that album is made of 3 jams, the guys just playin on some vamp bass and improvised on the funky rhythms....
it sounds live because it's a live album throughout......
Yes, basically, produced and paced like a blaxploitation OST. Mizells are notorious for using strings with carefully orchestrated and somewhat mechanical arrangements. More slick late 70s blue note or motown than stax or 60s blue note.
Byrd's also got one out called "Kofi" which is just ace. If it came out at the same time as ethiopian knights or electric byrd it would eclipse them both. Unfortunately it was kept in the can until a few years ago. It has a cover of frank foster's (who also plays on the album) "loud minority" complete with massive break.
Oh shit, and I thought I had my favorite Donald Byrd LP's locked,...guess not, this shit is DOPE,... Elmina...(!!!!) and this is only released on CD ?? (I like my ish on weeax).....damn !
it came out on vinyl as well
So Blue Note put the Kofi album out on vinyl also...
thanks for info !
Larry Mizell Sky High Productions = D - O - P - E !
I put about 2 minutes of Last Rastifi or whavtever the b-side track is called on a mix with many other "rares"----I remember thinking that it wasn't as "rare" and I was like, "fuck that shit"----this is too dope and so slept on----one of my favourite albums, I just listened to it last week,---2 full side songs that aren't cheezy in the slightest----I've praised this one a few times before---------I think DJ Cam loops the beginning of side 1 on blue note revisited, but I don't think too much of it----gimme the o.g. anyday.
matter of fact, I need a double for this. I gotta cut that shit up.
I used to not like "over produced" records, but I got over it.
Rotary Connection may have been a cool band that rocked the house with funky jams. We will never know, because in essence their records are Stepney records. I like Stepney records, and he did great stuff with Rotary Connection.
To me something like Axelrod's earth Rot is not over produced. Axe is the composer and artists, and the record is the realization of his music.
Phil thank's for that cover pic. I remember I studied that once, but I had forgotten what it was a pic of.
Dan
So we can say "Your moma is so dark she was on the cover of Ethiopian Knights and I coudn't even see her!"
I keed, I keed. I only remember Ethiopian Knights but really nothing else (I haven't pulled that record out in a couple of years-but best believe Ethiopian Knights had me shook when I heard it on an old Cut Chemist mixtape!)
Really?!? I don't remember that at all. Anybody got an MP3 of the Mic Geronimo song?
BTW, is there a Stephney discog anywhere online? I'm trying to think of other stuff he (over)produced besides the Rotary & Minnie Rip albums. Richard Evans "Dealing With Hard Times" maybe? Some Ramsey Lewis? I know I'm forgetting some major people here.
The two Phil Upchurch LPs on Cadet; The Dells Freedom Means; Electric Mud and After the Rain; that Howlin' Wolf album; Dorothy Ashby's sh!t; the best Ramsey Lewis material...
What Color Is Love, Spice of Life...
If we're talking over produced as brassy late 70s jazz/funk I have never heard that in Stepney's work.
peace.
Soulful Strings is Stepney, right? String Fever is the one I really like.
Dan