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HAVING travelled to the Ivory Coast in 1981, legendary Motown producer Art Stewart created the Eboni Band, made up of Motown session players and local musicians, and recorded an extraordinary album of west African-influenced soul and funk.
Amazingly, the Detroit record label gave the recording a rain check, believing US audiences weren’t ready for this music from the African diaspora. But the record did get a limited distribution in the Ivory Coast and now, lucky us, gets a full re-release.
With its cacophony of voices and busy street energy, opener Sing A Happy Song has definite shades of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, though the jazz-fusion of Weather Report’s Black Market also comes to mind.
London indie outfit This Is The Deep make wonderfully eccentric but catchy music.
The Best is Yet to Come (Part 1) is a mini-album that plays at 45 RPM, whose eight songs mingle quirky post-punk dub-funk with something altogether poppier and frothier. They are unafraid of utilising quirky sound effects and stylings that, in others hands, might lead to a kitsch novelty factor, but in theirs the results range from outright pop to the skronk-punk-jazz abstraction of “Eyes on You” to a weird slowie to vaguely Talking Head-ish moments to the cinematic exotica of the title cut. Uncategorizable and brilliant, keep your eyes and ears attuned for more from on this lot.
For the first time in more than two decades, arrests and clues about what may have happened to the college student who disappeared in 1996, and whose remains have not been found.