Phasing News Volume 1 (Vinyl LP) Latin & World

Phasing News Volume 1 (Vinyl LP) Latin & WorldEuropean funk fusion of the highest order, Michel Gonet's Phasing News Volume 1 is the essential companion piece to the venerated Volume 2. It's truly a library treasure that every home must own. As Tele Music themselves said, it contains "tense and mysterious underscores in a range of styles"; whilst we don't disagree, we'd add swaggering, orchestral drama funk jazz breaks. Vital. 15 09 23

and harmonicas that drive instrumental tracks like "Freak

Nelson Cavaquinho

it painstakingly wraps layer upon layer of gloriously transcendent sound together to create a mesmerizing and cinematic collection of songs

Known as "The White Knight of Soul

and its uses (and limits) as means of coping with the difficulties of the present

This album provides an insightful glimpse into life in these unforgiving Kingston neighbourhoods describing not only the poverty and desperation but also how at times

which is built around singer-songwriter and guitarist Jonathan Richman

kay remixes from Ashley Beedle + the crew

jazz infused

having served his time initially in a group called the Houseguests with brother Phelps"Catfish" Collins (the group backed up James Brown for a time in the early seventies cutting such gems as "Talkin' Loud

or Alice Clark's Don't You Care (which for licensing reasons is not available anywhere at the moment)

Charlie Hearndon