TRACKLIST
A1 Rampage
A2 Chokin'
A3 Weiya (Serengeti Beat) B1 In The Raw
B2 Prowlin'
C1 Yakuba
C2 Weiya
C3 Witch-Jam
C4 Eji
D1 Sol Walk
D2 Thunderbird
D3 Buster
DESCRIPTION
Poets of Rhythm founding members first crucial piece of the funk spectrum recorded as The Whitefield Brothers. A wear-your heart-on-your-sleeve, hypnotic, defiantly psychedelic funk album that is as modern as it is grounded in the great musical traditions from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Featuring members of the Dap Kings, El Michels Affair and Poets of Rhythm.
“The Whitefield Brothers In The Raw remains as potent in 2022 as the day it dropped twenty years ago. Originally released in 2002, and later reissued via Now-Again, the LP’s panglobal brew of ragged psychedelic funk dripped differ- ent, defying easy markers of genre, era, and locality...live breakbeat drums and tribal chants...anchor the set’s twelve tracks. Hypnotic and humid, come for the polyrhythms, stay for the swirling dub adjacent blasts of trumpet.”
- Aquarium Drunkard