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2021

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2021 04 09

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2021 04 02

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2021 03 05

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2021

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2021 02 26

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2021 02 05

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2021 01 22
2021 09 03

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2021 01 29

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2021 01 29

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2020 11 13

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2020 11 13

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2020 11 13

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2020 12 11

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2020 09 25

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2020

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RSD 2020

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2020 10 30

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2020 10 23

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2020 10 16

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2020 10 16

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SWIRL COLORED
1LP - KNOWLEDGE ROOM RECORDINGS
2020 10 02

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2020 09 11
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2020

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2020

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2020

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2020

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2020

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2020

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2020

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2019

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1LP - LUV N HAIGHT
2020 11 27

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2020

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2015

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2019

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2019

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2018

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2017
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2021 05 28

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2019

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2018

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2017

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2018

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2019

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1LP - LOVEMONK
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2020

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2018

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2019

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2020 08 28
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2020 10 02

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2020 11 06

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2020 10 16

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2020 07 31
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2020 09 11
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2015

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2020

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2020 11 06

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2018

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2014

TRACKLIST
A1 Introduction
A2 Push Na Ya
A3 El Gusto
A4 Transition >S<
A5 Karadeniz
A6 The Spirit Of Gine
B1 Transition >T<
B2 Girma's Lament
B3 Sharpville Massacre
B4 Samai Thaqil
C1 Jo Nibunga
C2 Omebele (Makossa)
C3 M'Hammad
C4 Transition >A<
C5 Who's Foolin' Who?
C6 Transition >C<
D1 Hymnin S
D2 Bring It On Down
D3 Mission Control
D4 Kaifa Part 1+2

DESCRIPTION
Karl Hector aka the German producer and guitarist JJ Whitefield, Whitefield is the visionary behind the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, the ensembles whose rough analog sound and return to the funk archetypes of the late 60s to early 70s paved the way for labels like Daptone, Truth & Soul, Timmion. Whitefield, along with Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founded Karl Hector and The Malcouns in the early 2000s. Their debut, Sahara Swing, saw release on Now-Again in 2008. The album swung with influences from across the African diaspora and set the stage for a cult, but influential following. Festival promoters intrigued by the possibility of resurrecting the careers of once forgotten African mavericks from Ghana's Ebo Taylor to the progenitors of Zambia's Zamrock scene brought Hector and crew across Europe playing festivals for ecstatic fans. A grueling tour schedule made recording a follow up album to Sahara Swing quite the challenge, and as a result, the band opted to release limited edition, hand-silkscreened EP's, which continued to show their deft handling of musics from Eastern and Northern Africa alongside Western psychedelia, jazz and funk. Whitefield gave himself 2013 to finish the album that would become Unstraight Ahead, which will see release on Now-Again this summer. Unstraight Ahead finds the band exploring territories even outside of the expansive scope of Sahara Swing. On this album, the West African sounds of Ghana and Mali meet the East African sounds of Mulatu Astatke's Ethiopian jazz and are tied together with the groove heavy experimentalism of The Malcouns' 70s Krautrock godfathers: Can, of course, but also more obscure and equally adventurous groups like Agitation Free, Ibliss and Tomorrow's Gift. We look to Middle Eastern funk and psychedelic fusions, and to various ethnic records for sound and phrasing, Whitefield states. We're trying to combine the global experimentalism of Krautrock with the backbeat of funk. This explains how songs in uneven meters 5/4, 7/8 always sound so accessible and natural on Unstraight Ahead. It's mainly an instrumental affair, but guest artists appear throughout, from across the African diaspora to those from the worldly Krautrock forebears of their German fatherland: it's Marja, daughter of Embryo founder Christian Burchard, whose vocals open the album. It's an album out of time, one that couldn't have been made in the era its aural aesthetics reference, as its scope is so broad. But it's an album focused by funk and an ambition to expand funk's reaches. The Malcouns including Poets of Rhythm songwriter and vocalist Bo Baral - created their own instruments to fashion an album that stands alongside the great albums of its progenitors but charges Unstraight Ahead into a curious musical future.

1LP - OLINDO
2021 01 15

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1LP - MUTUAL INTENTIONS
2021 01 08

1LP - FUNKIWALA
2021 02 12

1LP - FUNKIWALA
2021 02 05

1LP - ALTERCAT
2021 01 15

7 INCH - TRAMP RECORDS
2021 01 22

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1LP - BE WITH RECORDS
2019

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1LP - SONORAMA
2019

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7 INCH - DYNAMITE CUTS
2021 02 12

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7 INCH - P-VINE
2021 05 28
2021 06 25

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7 INCH - HMV
2021 03 26

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1LP - HMV
2021 05 14

LIGHT BLUE - 1LP - MR BONGO
2021

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2LP - STRUT
2009

1LP - WE WANT SOUNDS
2021 05 07

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1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2012

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1LP - 8TH RECORDS
2021 04 30

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DROP 1 - RSD 2021
2LP - STRUT
2021 06 12

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DROP 1 - RSD 2021
1LP - TIDAL WAVES MUSIC
2021 06 12