VINYL RELEASE. Between 1974 and 1975, a group of black American musicians from Long Island, New York recorded two albums while living in Paris under the name The Lafayette Afro Rock Band. They have attained legendary underground status as potent slices of Motherland-fortified funk-jazz. Though the LPs sold a mere 5,000-10,000 copies upon their release, key tracks have been sampled by rap stars from LL Cool J to Jay Z, blazing fresh interest in the mysterious septet. The band began in 1971 as Bobby Boy Cong...   [ read more ]

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Darkest Light was originally released on Strut in 1999 and tells the story of the band from their early days as Ice including the key tracks from their two landmark albums Malik and Soul Makossa/Voodounon. The album also features tracks recorded under one-off pseudonyms for the Japanese market, Crispy & Co. and Captain Dax. Both albums only achieved specialist sales on release, but have both endured as underground favorites for vinyl collectors and as a significant source for samples for artists like Jay-Z...   [ read more ]

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This band describes itself as The Spinal Tap of Humble Pie". One minute these guys sound like Alex Chilton's kid brother's garage band, the next they go totally low-fi -- as on "Wild Louie" (a send-up of everyone's favorite frat-rock tune), the next they could almost be working up novelty tracks for the old Ren & Stimpy show (luuuv that electric sitar on "Robert Robbs"!). The band's collective tongue is firmly in cheek from A to Z but especially on tracks like "The Celebrated Expatriate Intellectual". Thei...   [ read more ]

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