Hollywood Seven (Vinyl 7") Rhythm & Blues

Hollywood Seven (Vinyl 7") Rhythm & Blues

that shit could never change me

Here they collate seven of Julie's most sought-after Afro disco and hauntingly-beautiful Itsekiri highlife recordings

while 'Slave Driver' and '400 Years' take on racial / historical issues

Angels and Demons At Play

Lead singer Graham Day's scorching Hendrix-influenced guitar riffs and organist James Taylor's hypnotising Hammond whirls and irresistible go go rhythms changed lives

The ramshackle cover art for this 1972 album makes it look like a bootleg

In 2009 NME included this album in their list of best albums of the decade

Her strident reading of Don Covay's Chain of Fools set the tone for a collection on which the singer unveiled several stellar original compositions and reinterpreted a batch of classic songs

The album fuses their earlier experimental records with the electronic dance-funk sound that would become more prominent within their subsequent releases and includes the magnificent haunting single ‘Just Fascination’

Like the self-proclaimed 'Spiderman' who climbed Chicago's sears tower with no harness

Naomi Yang (of Galaxie 500) reached out to me after she rediscovered a video that we had made together in 2011

These are brief audio snapshots of what was surely a substantial part of Sun Ra's life